Art In The Cloud – Elaine WONG

Art In The Cloud – Elaine WONG

Elaine WONG (Artist)

lives and is based in Hong Kong. She received her Master of Fine Art (Creative Media) from School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. With a background in fine arts painting, she regards her practice as an investigation of the potentials of art beyond representation, its relation to sensation, documentation and experience. Her interest in the experiential quality of works leads her to engage in experiments with videography, sound and media installations. 

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Video: Flying Taxi 

Flying Taxi is part of video work Days of Swimming in the Garden. The work is a world of physical and mental experience of being in Hong Kong. The sound and images are deterritorialized from their signifying functions and figurative forms of travelling routines to actualize a world that is to be sensed, experienced, and felt. Flying Taxi explores the possibility to unfold the reality by expanding our range of senses beyond our naked perception during a taxi ride at midnight.

Art In The Cloud – TSUI Brothers

Art In The Cloud – TSUI Brothers

TSUI Brothers (Artist)

The twins, Haze & Long TSUI  grew up in Hong Kong in the 1980s, graduated in the School of Creative Media of City University & School of Design of Polytechnic University. They started to draw together in childhood and bonded as a creative team since 2006. Focusing on cross-media projects, including design, advertising, moving images and artwork creations.

In 2014, established Milktealogy, a research project on the culture of ‘milk tea’ in Hong Kong and across the world. The team has started to create award-winning animation series about it: “Teatime Rhapsody” & “TransForMeal”. 

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Video: Miss M

Miss M is a virtual influencer based in Hong Kong, originated from the Milktealogy animation series – Teatime Rhapsody. Given the personality of a “Hong Kong-style” office lady and will at all times act on social media platforms. She communicates with followers and audiences on social media. By sharing her interests in daily life, “A mixed reality” is created. Miss M promotes the Milk Tea & Cha Chaan Teng culture of Hong Kong. She interacts with characters of other Hong Kong animation series, gradually develops a local animation community. It opens possibilities for art to merge and re-defines pop culture.

IG: miss_m_secret

Art In The Cloud – Vincent RUIJTERS

Art In The Cloud – Vincent RUIJTERS

Vincent RUIJTERS (Artist)

PhD. Born 1988 in The Netherlands. Currently based in Tokyo. Ruijters focuses on the phenomenology of intimacy and ethnic identity. Through his art he explores how contemporaneity shifts and modifies these phenomena. In his work overstimulation, speed and coldness of contemporary systems clash with the artist’s need to cherish and express what is deeply human. Physicality, materiality, technology, interaction, and the sense of touch are fundamental elements of his practice. 

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Video: Dynamics of Mass Connectivity 

This work is an interactive installation with three displays revolving on a pole axis. Each monitor shows video conversations the artist had with friends and family living across the globe. The work contemplates the phenomena of the virtual communication engrained in our daily life experience. Compared to physical communication, virtual communication has different interval and proximity dynamics. This work aims to show the ‘Intimate Dissonancy’ and noise caused by this shift. It is also an expression of the struggle of self-perception for someone with mixed ancestry or a complex identity. A struggle of simultaneously viewing something fractioned as singular.

Video: Azusa Matsuda

Sound Design: Hideki Umezawa

Programming: Jinwoong Kim

Monitor video: René te Riele

Art In The Cloud – Ryo IKESHIRO

Art In The Cloud – Ryo IKESHIRO

Ryo IKESHIRO (Artist)

is an artist, musician and researcher. His work explores the possibilities of meaning and context presented through sound as well as its materiality in relation to digital audio and audio technologies. He was part of the Asia Culture Center’s inaugural exhibition in Gwangju, South Korea, and he is a contributor to Sound Art: Sound as a medium of art (ZKM Karlsruhe/MIT). He is an Assistant Professor and co-director of SoundLab at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.

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Video: Girls! Girls! Girls! Girls! Boys! 

To reflect on the possibilities of the cloud, I’m revisiting a work which explores the image in the age of the internet using an older broadcasting technology: Teletext, the Television information retrieval service. Although their capabilities clearly differ, by almost being a precursor to the internet, our nostalgic recollections of Teletext serve to remind us of the early promise – and its subsequent dashing – of the internet. 

The Teletext pages were broadcast for a month on ARD Text, ORF TELETEXT and ORF III TELETEXT, Swiss Text and arte Teletext as part of International Teletext Art Festival 2015 and exhibited at Ars Electronica.

Art In The Cloud – Tuçe EREL

Art In The Cloud – Tuçe EREL

Tuçe EREL (Curator)

 (1981, Ankara) is a curator, art writer, and cultural worker based in Berlin. Erel uses her sociology education in her curatorial research. She prefers to twist and challenge the conventional social science methodologies. She explores the concept of hacking as a way to unbox the concept of bio-politics, posthumanism, Anthropocene, ecological crisis, naturecultures, non-human agency, artistic speculation and imagination. She is a member of TOP Transdisciplinary Project Space and Art Laboratory Berlin. 

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Video: Selected Projects by Tuçe EREL