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Maurice BENAYOUN

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Maurice BENAYOUN

The interview will be available on 9 – 13 September 2020, Wed – Sun

Maurice Benayoun – MoBen (莫奔), is a pioneering Media Artist. Trained in fine arts, he created innovative and critical artworks at the origin of CGI animated TV series, Telematic VR installations, controversial Urban Media art, pervasive transactional art projects connecting the brain to the blockchain, ethics to finance, trading to poetry. Chair of the HK Garden, MoBen has received more than 20 international awards including 4 Prix Ars Electronica and the Golden Nica in Interactive Arts. He is presently Professor at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.

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CHAN Ka Chun, Joseph

   Art Practices in Hong Kong at a time of global seclusion

CHAN Ka Chun, Joseph

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Joseph CHAN is an artist and an engineer.  “Machine” is a non-existent concept for CHAN, hence he believes it is not the “machine” that is amazing, but the essences within. He explores the essence of “machines” through his unique way – by creating them. His inspirations are from objects and contraptions that are with interesting forms, motions, and transformations. It can be an object of nature or of other man-made machines. His mechanical works have been exhibited at the Hong Kong Science Museum, Hong Kong Space Museum, and Singapore Changi Airport.

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Vvzela KOOK

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Vvzela KOOK

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Vvzela KOOK is a new media artist. The transmedia storytelling is part of the artistic concept. The  mixing of delicate drawings, 3D printing and video game optics in her videos show the wide range of media and materials the artist uses to visually translate her research-based projects. KOOK has shown her works in various cities including Hong Kong, Vancouver, Shanghai, and participated “89+”program co-curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Simon Castets.


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KIM , Eugenia Sangmie

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KIM, Eugenia Sangmie

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Eugenia S. KIM is an interdisciplinary creator and practice-based researcher currently focusing in motion capture, virtual reality and somatic movement practices. Her background is in dance, digital archives/humanities, and multimedia art. KIM holds a PhD in Creative Media from City University of Hong Kong, M.S. in Information Science from University at Albany, and a B.S. in Electronic Media, Arts and Communications from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.


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Ashley WONG

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Ashley WONG

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Ashley Lee WONG is a curator and researcher based in Hong Kong. She is Co-Founder and

Artistic Director of MetaObjects, a studio facilitating digital projects with artists and cultural

institutions. She is a PhD Candidate at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong

Kong. She worked as Head of Programmes and Operations for Sedition, an online platform

for distributing digital limited editions by contemporary artists based in London. 


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Tony MASLIĆ

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Tony MASLIĆ

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MASLIĆ explored a plenitude of media, executed in cross-disciplinary installations, video, 3D animations, robotics, sound-art, conceptual works, performances, and much more. His topics varied from politics, economics, psychology, war & conflict, cultural displacement, violence, propaganda, group-behavior, cultural identity and the impact of capitalism. Simultaneously he explores the dichotomous interrelationships between virtual existence and physical objects within the construction of reality. Currently he focuses on artificial consciousness in art.

 

https://tonymaslic.com 

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Harald KRAEMER

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Harald KRAEMER

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Harald KRAEMER is an art historian with a long-standing focus on media in museums. He is also well known for his exhibitions (ISEA2016 Hong Kong, The Age of Experience, Interval in Space) and his publications (Museumsinformatik, George Steinmann, Robert Lettner). KRAEMER currently teaches Museum/Curatorial Studies in Hong Kong and is preparing for the 2021 exhibition Future Memories:Utopia-Dystopia-Nature and the publication Museums and their Digital Intangible Heritage.

 

https://lotsremark.net  

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Max HATTLER

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Max HATTLER

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Max HATTLER is an artist, researcher, curator and educator who works with abstract animation, video installation and audiovisual performance. Awards and mentions include Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Prix Ars Electronica, Punto y Raya Festival, London International Animation Festival, and several Visual Music Awards. He currently lives in Hong Kong where he is an Assistant Professor at School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.


www.maxhattler.com

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LEUNG Chi Wo

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LEUNG Chi Wo

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LEUNG Chi Wo is a visual artist and now teaches in the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. Ranging from photography and video to text, performance and installation, he is concerned with the undetermined relationship between conception, perception and understanding, especially in relation to site and history within cultural/political frameworks. LEUNG was a co-founder of Para Site and his site-specific project was featured in the first Hong Kong pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2001.

 

www.leungchiwo.com  

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Linda LAI

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Linda Chiu-han LAI

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Linda Chiu-han LAI is a research-based interdisciplinary artist. Her videography has been shown in over 20 cities, including 3 times at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, and as solo features at EXIS (Seoul) and EXIM (Macau). Her artistic practices are theoretical extensions of her doctoral training in Cinema Studies, and concern the politics of narrativity via the art of montage and experimental historiography. Since 2012, she has taken a spatial tum and created several large-scale installations, including two solo shows and one commissioned work for the Shanghai Biennale, the latter now part of the Power Station of Art permanent collection in Shanghai. 26 of her video works (2005-2014) are archived at the Video Bureau (Guangzhou and Beijing) for research use. She founded the Writing Machine Collective (2004 – ) and Floating Projects (2015 – ) with the Floating Projects Collective. She was the Hong Kong Arts Development Council Artist of the Year in Media Art 2017. 

http://www.lindalai-floatingsite.com