HK Garden 2020 Archive

Play Video

Context:

Arts Electronica 2020 is being crystalized as an experimental, de-centralized global affair, in response to the contingencies arising from the Covid-19 pandemic. Envisioning a journey toward measuring the ‘new’ world being realized today, this year’s festival extends beyond the customary venue in Linz, Austria, by opening up to additional 120 locations around the world under the theme Kepler’s Gardens.(https://ars.electronica.art/keplersgardens/en/)

For the Ars Electronica Garden Hong Kong segment, which is one of the largest ‘Kepler’s garden’ projects around the world, we feature programs that are made specifically for the event as well as showcasing various creative forays taken up by the host institution, School of Creative Media at City University Hong Kong. The event will take place mostly online, from Wednesday 9th to Sunday 13th September 2020.

Curatorial Concept:

Hong Kong Garden – City in Fusion
Hong Kong stands at a particularly critical juncture today, poised upon ever-shifting tectonic activities effectuated by historical, socio-cultural, political and economic factors that are unfolding in the present tense. Such dynamism and volatility impel a sense of urgency, to nurture a multifarious array of creative engagements toward engendering meaningful reflections, which can then become a means to intuit, navigate and influence the future as it emerges into reality.

It is in this tumultuous and indeterminate flux of things that both potency and dangers lurk, and thus artists and faculty at SCM strive to draw new perspectives emerging from the intersections of life, art, science and technology to better understand our time and its wanderings. The Kepler’s Garden in Hong Kong includes eight programs wherein which the artworks, exhibitions, interviews, a workshop, and a seminar we put together in this framework can be seen as magnifying glasses, distorting mirrors, or time telescopes, that are geared toward re-thinking the World we find ourselves in.

PROGRAM

PRESS KIT & PROGRAM IN A GLACE All the programs are available for viewing on this website.

LIVE SESSIONS

A Dialogue about DïaloG

Director: Maurice BENAYOUN and Refik ANADOL

Project manager: Moben and Analog Native

Contributors: partners of the MindSpaces EU research project and the MindSpaces HK project

HK Production: Charlie YIP, ZHANG Tianyi, Tony, CHAN Hin Chung, Sam, LEUNG Kin Lok, Tim, NeuroDesign Lab, ACIM, SCM, CityU HK

Location: Los Angeles, Hong Kong

Public Lecture: Speculative Speculations on Art and Value

Lecture by Maurice BENAYOUN

Coordinator: Ann MAK

Production: Charlie YIP, NeuroDesign Lab, ACIM, SCM, CityU HK

Venue: NeuroDesign lab, SCM, CityU HK

Moscow/Lviv/Hong Kong Expert Tour & Planetary Wine Tasting Party

Host: osagė@osage

Moderator: Maurice BENAYOUN

Coordinator: Ann MAK, Lisa PARK SoYoung

Production: Osage Art Foundation, NeuroDesign Lab, ACIM, SCM, CityU HK

Production Team:

Charlie YIP, ZHANG Tianyi, Tony, CHAN Hin Chung, Sam, LEUNG Kin Lok, Tim, NeuroDesign Lab, ACIM, SCM, CityU HK

Venue: Osage Gallery Hong Kong

ARTWORKS PREMIERE

Hong Kong Escape Views

Director: Maurice BENAYOUN

Curators: Jeffrey SHAW, Richard W. ALLEN

Cast: Natis Le RENARD

Project Manager: Ann MAK

Production Team: Sam CHAN, Charlie YIP, Eleanor BENAYOUN

Virtual Reality experience design: Sam CHAN

360 video shooting, editing and special effects: Eleanor BENAYOUN, Charlie YIP

Technical Team: ZHANG Tianyi, Tony, LEUNG Kin Lok, Tim

Production: NeuroDesign Lab, ACIM, SCM, CityU HK

Location: Hong Kong

Alien Life in the Telescope

By Refik ANADOL and MoBen

MindSpaces, Analog Native / CityU HK, SCM, Neuro Design Lab

Generative Streaming Performance

Director: Maurice BENAYOUN and Refik ANADOL

Project manager: Moben and Analog Native

Contributors: partners of the MindSpaces EU research project and the MindSpaces HK project

HK Production: Charlie YIP, ZHANG Tianyi, Tony, CHAN Hin Chung, Sam, LEUNG Kin Lok, Tim, NeuroDesign Lab, ACIM, SCM, CityU HK

Location: Los Angeles, Hong Kong

SYMPOSIUM

Public Symposium: Why and How Artworks Feel?

Speakers:

Maurice BENAYOUN, MoBen

Haseeb AHMED

Alexia BRIASSOULI

Luis FRAGUADA

Nefeli GEORGAKOPOULOU

Emanuel GOLLOB

Tyson HOSMER

Alejandro MARTÍN

Dr Anastasios TELLIOS

Dr Despoina ZAVARAKA

Moderator: Maurice BENAYOUN / CityU HK

Coordinator: Ann MAK

Contributors: partners of the MindSpaces EU research project and the MindSpaces HK project

Production: Charlie YIP, NeuroDesign Lab, ACIM, CityU HK

WORKSHOP

VOV Workshop: Making Art from the Brain to the Blockchain

By Maurice BENAYOUN & Tobias KLEIN

Chair and moderator: Maurice BENAYOUN

co-Moderator: Tobias KLEIN

Organiser: Ann MAK

Production: Charlie YIP, ZHANG Tianyi, Tony, CHAN Hin Chung, Sam, LEUNG Kin Lok, Tim, NeuroDesign Lab, ACIM, SCM, CityU HK

Venue: NeuroDesign lab, SCM, CityU HK

EXHIBITIONS & ARTWORKS DOCUMENTATION

Curator & Director: Maurice BENAYOUN

Coordinator: Ann MAK

Production: Charlie YIP, NeuroDesign Lab, ACIM, CityU HK

ART SURVIVAL PRACTICES

Art Practices in Hong Kong at a Time of Global Seclusion

Chair: Maurice BENAYOUN

Project Director: Ann MAK

Production Team: Ringo TANG, Moon TANG, Charlie YIP, TSUI On Ho, Cathy DIU, Lik WONG

Production: agogofilm, NeuroDesign Lab, ACIM, SCM, CityU HK

Photography: Ringo TANG

ART IN LABS

Advisor: Richard William ALLEN

Shooting Director: Alex NGAN

Project Manager: Ann MAK

Logistics: Malina SIU

Production Team: Malina SIU, Charlie YIP, NeuroDesign Lab, ACIM, SCM, CityU HK

SCM, CityU HK

City University of Hong Kong’s School of Creative Media (SCM, CityU HK) is recognized to be an international centre for discovery and innovation in Asia. Here creativity is nurtured as a cornerstone of Hong Kong’s social and economic advancement in the 21st Century. Our teaching and research facilities are housed in a stunning, one-of-a-kind, building designed by the world-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind. The School of Creative Media has gathered an impressive, internationally renowned, faculty of digital media artists, thinkers, and innovators, working in the fields of animation, sound design, gaming, software development, physical computing, film, digital media art, and media theory. www.scm.cityu.edu.hk

ARS ELECTRONICA

Ars ElectronicaFestivalis a major New Media Art festival that was inaugurated in 1979. Renownedfor its prestigious Prix Ars Electronica that is conferred annually, it is a pivotal entity that leads the field in the arena of electronicart.Based inthe city of Linz, Austria, it is operated from a cultural, educational and scientific institutethat is dedicated to interlinkages between art, technology and society, that is realized through various engagements including research and development in multidisciplinary media arts at its Futurelab,as well as its festivals.