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The 25th ifva Awards

Media Art Category Finalist Exhibition

It features ten works from across Asia. They are about personal experiences, memories, observations and sentiments of the artists. Different elements such as sounds, lights, mechanics, virtual reality are used in the installations to convey their own stories and messages, inviting the audience to wander between virtuality and reality.

26/2 (Wed) - 23/3 (Mon) | 12nn – 8pm | Pao Galleries | Free Admission | Exhibition opening and Media Art Category Awards Presentation at 6:30pm on 26/2

As You Were Here

Pan I-an

(Taiwan)

The artist’s mom is a knitting expert who used to hand knit clothes for the artist when she was little. She is also a traditional mom who worries and nags a lot. In this work, the artist transforms the words her mom used to nag into wearable e-textiles...

Bystander

Liu Chang

(China)

Bystander is a Cinematic VR installation that allows the audience to step on the shoes of a traumatised girl being abused in childhood...

Connection Disturbance

Tam Kai-fung

(Hong Kong)

The installation is exploring the sentimental part of human expressions. It tries to intervene in our communication and concretises our insignificant emotional change into object-to-object interaction, as to create a new spoken language from generating sound effect disturbances.

Devenir Space

Hsu Hsun-hsiang

(Taiwan)

Devenir Space is an immersive space-installation artwork. With the involvement of the media, the realities and the realities of space will be reconstructed by revealing and implying all the possible exist lines in space...

InkFlux - Freeland

Chris Cheung (h0nh1m)

(Hong Kong)

InkFlux is a state infused with Zen, it breaks down the convention that leaving white space for the “emptiness” in traditional Chinese painting...

Life/Time

Witaya Junma

(Thailand)

Life/Time is an interactive installation of moving images applied the persistence of vision technique on drinking glasses. It is designed for participants to wet their fingers and press the rim of each glass. With that pressure the glass will spin and create a sound...

Mind Cut

Tung Wing-hong

(Hong Kong)

The rapid rotation of screens created its own space and overlapped with the routine of a spinning light. An indescribable thought flashes through a confused mind. He missed and never grasped this spark of light.

RUINLIZATION I : Signal 2.0

Kwong Wai-yi

(Hong Kong)

RUINLIZATION I: Signal 2.0 is a world-building sound installation, comprised of motor and raw materials, to produce the soundscape that imagined a perception of ruin...

The Dream Machine

L306D Dream Team - Wong Chun-hoi, Ding Cheuk-laam, Lai Chung-man, Lam Kin-choi, Lau Ching-wa, Lok Man-chung, Yeung Ming-him, Yan Wai-yin Winnie

(Hong Kong)

The Dream Machine is a physical object-collage. The artwork can be described as a second-order cybernetics system, inspired by one story from Chang Shi-kuo’s Nebula Suite, whose title literally means “the romance of a snipped dream”...

Vacuum Cleaners

Lai Kuan-yuan

(Taiwan)

Vacuum Cleaners is an air pollution-themed VR interactive game. In a virtual world full of haze, not only do they need to save those who have severely infected by polluted air,but also interact with those rescued people...