Art in the Cloud – Royce NG x Alvaro…

Art in the Cloud – Royce NG x Alvaro CASSINELLI

Royce NG (Artist)

Ng is an artist currently based in Hong Kong working in digital media and performance who deals with the intersections of modern Asian history, trans-national trade, drugs, political economy and aesthetics. His works were featured in the 2019 exhibition ‘Phantom Plane: Cyberpunk in the Year of the Future’ at Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong and in 2020, he will have his first solo presentation in Japan with ‘The Death of Manchuria…’ at ASAKUSA in Tokyo. In 2021, his works will feature in the Shanghai Biennale XIII. 

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Alvaro CASSINELLI (Artist)

Born in Uruguay, Cassinelli is an equilibrist walking the thin line between Art and Science. He co-founded and led the Meta-Perception group at the Ishikawa-Oku Laboratory, University of Tokyo – a research group specialized on interfaces for expanding the vocabulary of HCI and media arts. He is presently Associate Professor and co-founder of the XRL/AM (Extended Reality Lab, Augmented Materiality Group) at the School of Creative Media in Hong Kong. Awards includes the Grand Prize [Art Division] (9th Japan Media Art Festival), Excellence Prize [Entertainment Division] (13th Japan Media Art Festival), Honorary Mention (Ars Electronica), NISSAN Innovative Award (2010), Jury Grand Prize at Laval Virtual (2011) among others. 

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Art in the Cloud – Kattie FAN

Art in the Cloud – Kattie FAN

Kattie FAN (Curator)

As a double master degree holder with background in creative media and cultural studies, Fan is a curator and producer specialized in media arts and cross-disciplinary arts. Currently the festival director of ifva, Hong Kong Arts Centre, her projects include “ifva Awards and Festival” (2009-), “Cinema 2.0 Exhibition” (2010-), “Chroma 11” VR dance film experience (2021), “ifva Everywhere Carnival” (2016-2020), “Indie is… Hong Kong Independent Short Films 1995 – 2014” (2015), “Animation Lab” (2012), “Bloomberg Emerging Artist Programme and Exhibition” (2008), etc.

Video: FindingEva

FindingEva – an interactive story journey in the form of mobile app, where the player, as a lost property manager, would experience a series of ‘lost and found’ incidents in a mixed reality sci-fi narrative.

When exhibitions and performances migrate to online platforms, FindingEva narrates a story of the current moment, connects and crosses the boundaries between the online and offline sites, leads audiences into a realm of mystery to walk through 12 locally produced media artworks and a secret spot in the city. Is it a journey for the lost item, or, for the missing exit?

Credits:
Artworks feature in the video:
Pedal Power Projector by Cheung Wai-chun Kevin;
Let it Ride by Mak Hei-yan Heiward;
St. Peter’s Cupboard by Yip Man-wah Mick;
Upside Down Contemporary Camera Obscura by Lo Wai-lun Alan, Ng Kai-chung Tommy;
ONLY3MATTERS by Chilai Howard;
LoopOut Radio by Tsui Ka-hei Haze.

Art in the Cloud – Jonathan KEMP

Art in the Cloud – Jonathan KEMP

Jonathan KEMP (Artist) 

Kemp defracts technology in solo/collaborative material-gnostic outputs including workshops and performances, installations, experimental communicative systems, and social software events, executed across Australia, Brazil, Europe, Japan, Taiwan and the US. Media art projects include Psychogeophysics, The Crystal World, and Shift/Register, all explorations of how the earth, technology and psyche under/overwrite and détourn each other, supported by international art-orgs and critically acclaimed in the literature. 

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Video: Untitled

Base-video is from a series of geology-of-computing performances where
early 19th century telegraph circuit technology was reconfigured. The
video has then been overlaid with amateur hand-crafted clunky
annotations using CVAT and Openshot and refers to a seminal book, ‘No
Internet, No Art’, where it is claimed that there cannot be contemporary
art production without the internet, even if on a trivial level.
However, just as the performance uses earth as a signal medium and
because ‘there is not software’ because its always machine-dependent,
then all communication networks, from telegraph to internet, are equally
always primarily niche-geo-material assemblies.

Art in the Cloud – Alexey MARFIN

Art in the Cloud – Alexey MARFIN

Alexey MARFIN (Artist)

Marfin is a film director interested in life in cities, making films between Los Angeles and Hong Kong. His films have screened worldwide, from Busan Film Festival to Brooklyn Film Festival. His VR film Kowloon Forest won Best Live Action VR at the 2020 Vancouver Film Festival. He has been acclaimed in Western and Asian media, including VICE, NOWNESS, Ming Pao Weekly, City Magazine HK, RTHK, and others. Alexey also teaches the Fiction & Entertainment postgrad program at SCI-Arc in LA. 

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Video: Kowloon Forest (Excerpt)

A journey through the private lives of five strangers in Hong Kong. A VR film about finding intimacy in a city of density.

Art in the Cloud – Kingsley NG

Art in the Cloud – Kingsley NG

Kingsley NG (Artist)

Ng is an inter-disciplinary artist and designer with a focus on site-specific and participatory projects. His creative practices are driven by a belief that art can be socially relevant and transformative. His work has been shown to critical acclaim at prominent international venues such as Guangzhou Triennial, the Shanghai Expo, the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial Japan, Milan Design Week and various exhibitions in France, Italy and Australia. He is the recipient of the Hong Kong Arts Development Best Artist Award (Media Arts) in 2013, and a Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Award in 2009.

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Video: Letting Go

Through a virtual exhibition and an online interactive portal, 9 emerging artists expand their practice with Augmented Reality (AR) technology and invite the audience to touch on adversities, acceptance and resolution in a virtual space of shared experience – anytime, anywhere with their personal digital devices. The project is co-presented by the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University and the non-profit gallery 1a space.

Art in the Cloud – LIN Pey-Chwen

Art in the Cloud – LIN Pey-Chwen

LIN Pey-Chwen (Artist, Curator)

Lin was born in Taiwan and received her doctorate degree of Creative Arts from University of Wollongong in Australia in 1995. She served as the professor and former head of Graduate School of Multimedia and Animation Arts in National Taiwan University of Arts. She is one of the pioneers of digital arts in Taiwan and has received many art awards including The First Prize of New Media Art in 2019 Italy XII Florence Biennial. Her achievements have been documented in many art journals, history books and art archives internationally. 

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Video: Making of Eve Clone II

Making of Eve Clone II extracts a wire-framed image of the merged faces of Eve Clone and the “Vitruvian Man” from “Making of Eve Clone I”. This interactive installation learns to mimic human facial expressions through audience participation. When viewers stand in front of the mobile phone, they will be surprised to find that the facial expression of Eve Clone is exactly the same as their own expression on the mobile phone screen. It is to criticize how technologies become the sky eye and possess the desire to create artificial life with human emotions.

Art in the Cloud – Théodora BARAT

Art in the Cloud – Théodora BARAT

Théodora BARAT (Artist)

Barat’s artistic approach combines film, sculpture and installation. She examines modernity figures in order to question our future. Her work has been shown at Sunken Plaza – K11 MUSEA, Emily Harvey Foundation, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Cneai=, Nuit Blanche, Friche la Belle de Mai, Vilnius Contemporary Art Center ; Palais de Tokyo, Centre Pompidou, Boston Fine Arts Museum, as well as in several international film festivals. She will be in residency at Villa Medici during 2021-22.

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Video: Synthetic Suburbia

I recurrently film with my cellphone my departure from the places I have been working in. This video shows the night flight over Newark, New Jersey. The urban grid is only revealed by streetlights and evokes some composite patterns. This pattern embodies the synthetic condition of this emblem of suburbia. However, the view is partly masked by the plane’s wing. This shadow produces a sudden subtraction in the image. The city is suddenly erased by nothingness, swallowed by oblivion.

Art in the Cloud – RAY LC

Art in the Cloud – RAY LC

RAY LC (Artist)

LC’s practice creates interactions and environments for building bonds between human beings and between humans and machines, by utilizing the nonverbal communication media of movements, sounds, and cinematic storytelling. He studied computer vision at UC Berkeley and neuroscience at UCLA, applying such technologies to performance, media art, and fashion at Tokyo. He holds an MFA from Parsons School of Design and a PHD from UCLA before becoming Assistant Professor at City University HK SCM. 

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Video: Down to the Holograph

The World is a Garden,

An Artificial Doorhole,

The Web, down to the holograph,

Magnifying Glass.

I can see it in the distance,

Infinite off-the-beaten-path.

Infinite time, in which

The Impossible Happened.

Down to the Holograph is a Machine-Learning generated audio-visual experience of possibilities based on the idea of Hong Kong as a magnifying holograph for the world, a mini-garden in its infinite diversity. Video interpolation generated using StyleGANS2 on 360 photos taken around Hong Kong, music accompaniment generated using Google Magenta on the artist’s improvised melody, and the accompanying text generated from GPT-2 pretrained on the artist’s poetry.

Art in the Cloud – David Rodríguez GIMENO

Art in the Cloud – David Rodríguez GIMENO

David Rodríguez GIMENO (Artist)

Gimeno was born in Huesca Spain in 1975. He holds an MA in fine arts in Valencia and a master degree in digital techniques and processes. He has developed works from mobile sculpture, to expanded cinema, through video photography and robotic installations. He has held exhibitions in museums such as Tainan Art Museum, Taiwan; Alcala 31, CDAN, España; Pavilion O2. Venice, Italy; KF Gallery. Seoul, Korea. He has received awards and residencies in Antarctica, Cinedans Holand, Madatac Espain, Osmosis Taiwan, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. 

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Video: Not What We Look At But From Where

Antarctica has been represented as a space without form.

This project focuses on how the representation of a place has to do with our expectations.

The representation systems are a mirror of the mental structures and built by interest.

This project also focuses on the search for the specific landscape, focusing on time, light, trajectory, and how these build up the image of the place.