PROGRAMME
PROGRAMME
Cinematic Playground
Twelve creative practitioners / units create new media art works themed around the city and light and shadow play. From interactive videos, installations to sound sculptures, these new works explore the boundless possibilities of media arts. Part of the works will be accompanied by extended activities and performances which facilitates collaborations among different art forms. For more details please refer to “Experience Zone”.
Photo Courtesy: Cheung Chi Wai
Artist
Cheuk Sze-wing Chloe
Artwork
Hesitation Grips Me
Artist’s bio
Cheuk Sze-wing Chloe uses daily objects and plays with optics, focal lengths and different materials to bring out different perspectives to see the world and its surroundings, and to compare the relationship and feelings between people. Recipient of the Special Mention Award at the 19th ifva Festival in 2014.
Artwork description
Hesitation Grips Me adapts the optical phenomenon derived from the camera obscura with a structure of dark chamber to depict the condition of hesitant to contact with the outside world. The image of the outside world falls into our eyes through the lens. The changes of the internal structure bring about images that wander between the thin line of blurriness and sharpness, catching and releasing.
Artist
Cheung Choi-sang Samson
Artwork
2+1=3
Artist’s bio
Samson graduated with a Business Administration degree, but then started learning photography and accidentally opened up his ear and exploration of sound media by coffee marks from a coffee cup. He likes to execute his ideas by performance, installation, spatial intervention to place himself and participants into certain situation.
Artwork description
This is a huge balance consists of three swings. Players on the two sides can figure out a preferred weight with which only when a balance is struck, everyone could enjoy the fun. If one side takes advantage on the weight, the opposite side flicks to reach the highest point above ground. Will the swinger seated in the middle become the influential minority?
Extended Programme
Artist
Lau Ching-wa Jess, Yan Wai-yin Winnie (Floating Projects Collective)
Artwork
Double Sunset
Artist’s bio
The artists primarily focus on making digital moving images. Upon their graduation from the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, they continue their own practice. Floating Projects Collective (FPC) was founded in 2010 and reinvented in 2015 by Dr. Lai Chiu-han Linda, which brings together a group of emerging artists to critically engage and expand the generative potential in comprehending media art through exhibition, screening, performance, writing or any other creative means.
Artwork description
Double Sunset is a duo-screen video installation which draws upon the mechanical characteristic of a 16mm film projector. Differed from the conventional setting of 16mm projectors in traditional cinema, the work features a single negative sequence continuously running through both reels from the two projectors, interweaving moving images, drawings to suggest some possibilities in exploring such obsolete film technology.
Technical Support
Li San-kit Andy, Tung Wing-hong
Extended Programme
Artist
Hui Fong-wah Phoebe
Artwork
Everyday Objects Ensemble
Artist’s bio
Hui Fong-wah Phoebe is interested in exploring new possibilities between sound, technology and language, and to transgress ordinary boundaries in multiple disciplines.
Artwork description
Everyday Objects Ensemble is an installation exploring the ideas of indeterminacy and post- humanist performativity, a hybrid of concert, performance and art installation. It revolves around a system of kinetic elements built with electronics, conductive ink and everyday life objects. Performative acts by the acoustic sculptures/machines, dancers, musicians, robots and members of the audience- the ever- present element of chance these acts engender - produce unexpected sonic outcomes.
Extended Programme
Artist
Hui Wai-keung
Artwork
Twin Rays
Artist’s bio
Hui Wai-keung was born and lives in Hong Kong. Having attempted various art forms, Hui is now focusing on digital media, such as software, game or generative art.
Artwork description
Images are produced all the time. They used to be appreciated privately, but eventually shared, copied, mass manufactured, and now saved as data. We use images to imitate reality as representation, and then create our own realities. Audiences are invited to observe scenery at a distance via telescopes, which is a mixture of real-time and saved images. Multiple versions of reality are being overlapped as montage, to the extent of losing the original, as well as losing our faith.
Artist
GayBird
Artwork
Requiem
Artist’s bio
Leung Kei-cheuk, aka GayBird, Hong Kong born composer, musician, researcher and new media artist. In recent years, he not only continues exploring in the realm of music creation, but also concentrates on creating media art work that explores the possibilities in the relationships among sound, technology and visual art.
Artwork description
Requiem is a multi-dimensional art piece with painting, sound sculpture and multi-channel electronic music being the main elements. The artist has collected 99 species, writing systems and places which have disappeared on earth or from daily life to produce 99 sets of 3D sound sculptures. Sounds produced by these sculptures turn into multi-channel electronic music pieces through computer processors, and in the end a painting-like score would be illustrated based on unique geometric symbols.
Improvised music performance
28/9 Fri 6:40pm | Percussion: Chan Ting-cheung Tim
29/9 Sat 7:15pm | Cello: Winca Chan
30/9 Sun 6:45pm | Cello: Winca Chan
Artist
Lo Wai-lun Alan, Ng Kai-chung Tommy
Artwork
The Tape
Artist’s bio
Lo Wai-lun Alan, local film director.
Ng Kai-chung Tommy, local animator.
Ng Kai-chung Tommy, local animator.
Artwork description
When you gaze at fear, fear gazes back at you.
The Tape is an installation that collects human being’s fears. The design is based on the kinetoscope - the first generation moving image projector - which depicts images and sounds from the spirits that is hard to be seen. Through a set of special equipment, spirits and demons are trapped into cassette tapes. The world of fear can only be witnessed by peeping through the tiny windows of The Tape.
Artist
Ng Siu-lun Nero
Artwork
The Clown
Artist’s bio
Ng Siu-lun Nero is an upcoming local new director, scriptwriter and multimedia creative talent. From neo-wuxia epics to surreal sci-fi fiction and tokusatsu films, his works have taken the city by storm.
Artwork description
The Clown brings the traditionally indoor-bounded green screen technology out of the studio. Clown-like performers put on single-coloured costumes and props to turn themselves into portable “green screens” and Edinburgh Place into a virtual studio. When colours are taken away to become other backgrounds through CG effects, audiences are invited to join the “clowns” to travel between day and night, territories and history.
Artist
To Yip-sang Told
Artwork
KTV Diary
Artist’s bio
To Yip-sang Told is a scientist specialised in Human Interface Invention. From computer vision, sound to AI, he has been exploring every possibility between technology and human beyond any boundaries.
Artwork description
This work aims to preserve our historical memories for the next generations of the city. Audiences will record their thoughts for the disappearing city and upload the video to the cloud server which will analyse and “read” these speeches. A unique music piece will be produced and generated in the form of a karaoke music video in accordance to these murmurs about fading memories.
Artist
WARE
Artwork
Mnemonic
Artist’s bio
Hong Kong-based media art studio co-founded in 2014 by Samuel Yip & Thomas Ip, WARE aims to integrate technology and creativity in a wide range of works, from spatial to experience design and audience engagement.
Artwork description
Mnemonic is an audiovisual installation that presents a unique sensory experience. When the cityscapes vanish in a familiar yet distant manner, they can only be remained as memories and abstracted images. Reality and nihilism coexist and weave together, which resembles the distinct arenas in the Universe.
Artist
Yeung Li-shung Wyan
Artwork
Twelve-swing Donut
Artist’s bio
Yeung Li-shung Wyan is an architect, multi-disciplinary creator and design educator. His interest and background situate at the intersection of architectural, spatial, interior, furniture and product design.
Artwork description
Twelve-swing Donut reflects on the relationship between human dynamics and light. Having the bustling urban landscape as a backdrop, it invites metropolis people to relive the childhood memories of playing on the swings. The interactive device captures each person's rhythm, thereby inducing different beats and colours of light, reflecting the sentiments of each person through their body movements. A symphony of light in the urban city is performed when twelve people ride on the swing together.
Extended Programme
Artist
Yeung Ming-him Hugo
Artwork
UnSilent Cinema
Artist’s bio
Born in 1993 and raised in Hong Kong, Yeung Ming-him Hugo is an emerging media artist focusing on exploring new possibilities of algorithms and computation as media to expand the aesthetic of cinematic (audio-visual) experience. He is a member of the Floating Projects Collective since 2015.
Artwork description
UnSilent Cinema is a cinematic installation which invites audiences to play on a street piano set alongside a projected image. The image is seemingly static but in fact can be driven into motion by the sound produced from the piano. The artist attempts to explore new audio-visual relationships of cinema in this digital age through computer programming, and at the same time tries to revisit “silent cinema” but repeal its notion of “silence” as sound and music have been part of the cinema experience since its early days.