GARDEN HONG KONG


12 – 17 September 2021

@ Osage Gallery

This exhibition is accessible for all on-site:
14-17 September
10.30am – 6.30pm HKT

 

 

 

Chaired by Maurice Benayoun
Sponsored by Osage Art Foundation

 

 

 

Garden Hong Kong @ Osage is a conclusion of Ars Electronica Festival 2021 – Garden Hong Kong, a 4-day finissage art exhibition curated by Ann Mak, showcasing the highlights of the Garden.

 

The event includes a 360º video of the interactive AI installation “DïaloG – The first Aliens’ encounter” by Refik Anadol and Maurice Benayoun; a robotic AI art installation by Maurice Benayoun (MoBen) “Power Chess” where the chess-playing robots are in fact, exploring the limits of human conflicts through gameplay; a documentation of the “Galactic Wine Sharing Party” hosted by Osage Gallery; as well as “Art in the Cloud” the online exhibition of 29 media artists from different parts of the World who are invited to each contribute a video of their artwork that responds to the inquiry on how art can be in line with the online.

 

 

 

About Garden Hong Kong

Following the success last year, Ars Electronica Festival, the first media art festival ever created 42 years ago in Linz, Austria, shifted its centralised model to a networked format in September 2020 as means to circumnavigate the limitations imposed by the ongoing pandemic. In 2021, 86 “Gardens” took up this call. Invited to contribute, the Neuro-Design Lab/ACIM of the School of Creative Media (SCM), City University of Hong Kong, accepted and responded to the challenge with Garden Hong Kong.

 

The connection between the School of Creative Media and the Ars Electronica Festival is strengthened by history, with the school counting no less than 4 Awardees among its faculty: Jeffrey Shaw, Golden Nica for Visionary Pioneer award in 2018; Tamás Pal Waliczky, Golden Nica in 1989; Maurice Benayoun, Golden Nica in Interactive Art 1998, A Distinction in 1994, and 2 Honorary mentions in 1994-1995; and Max Hattler receiving an Honorary Mention in 2020.

 

Garden Hong Kong 2021 presents a whole new program with diverse events and artworks. Internationally renowned media artists, curators and scholars, including those from Hong Kong, responded to the curatorial concept — Artificial Intentionalities: Post Human Humanities in the Era of the Art Subject — to explore various paths to better understand the entanglements that surface in the tectonic interplay of divergent worlds, where robots challenge social models, artworks try to understand each other, and the faraway meets the nearby.

 

 



Artists

 

EASEAS: Experiments in Art, Science and Ethology of the Art-Subject

 

Refik Anadol (US) & MoBen (HK)
DïaloG 
MoBen (HK)
Power Chess

Art In the Cloud

Episode 1
Tuçe EREL (DE)
Selected Projects by Tuçe EREL
Ryo IKESHIRO (JP,UK,HK)
Girls! Girls! Girls! Girls! Boys!
Vincent RUIJTERS (NL,JP)
Dynamics of Mass Connectivity
TSUI Brothers (HK)
Miss M
Elaine WONG (HK)
Flying Taxi 
Viola YIP (HK,DE)
BULBBLE (Excerpt)
Episode 2
Jeffrey GEIRINGER (US, HK)
Object Americana NFT Compilation [Unminted]
Joanna HOFFMANN (PL)
RhiZone: [ PapiLLa ]  
Tobias KLEIN (GR, HK)  
Unruh
MARIDET, Cédric (FR, HK)
(not quite) a catalogue of birds
Ellen Pau (HK)
Sight, Sound and Site
TSENG Yu-Chuan (TW) 
Jane-December 2020
Ken UENO (US)
Kitchen Breath
Episode 3
Joseph CHAN (HK)
Joseph Chan and His Machine
Marco DONNARUMMA (DE)
 Humane Methods [℧R]
David Rodriguez GIMENO (ES)  
Not What We Look At But From Where
Vvzela KOOK (HK) 
Exhibition Confidential Records: Overwrite in CCTV
Ray LC (US, HK)
 Down to the Holograph
LIN Pey-Chwen (TW)
Making of Eve Clone II
Episode 4
Theodora BARAT (FR)
Synthetic Suburbia 
Kattie FAN (HK) 
FindingEva
Jonathan KEMP (UK, AU)
Untitled
Linda Chiu-han LAI
 Floating Projects and Participatory Art 
Alexey MARFIN (US) 
Kowloon Forest (Excerpt)
Kingsley NG (HK)
Letting Go
Royce NG (AU, HK) x Alvaro CASSINELLI (UY, HK) 
The Polyphonous Avatar

Documentation of the Galactic Wine Sharing Party

 

Protagonists featuring:

  • Mr. Gerfried Stocker (Artistic Director of Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria)
  • Prof. Richard Allen (Dean of School of Creative Media, CityU HK)
  • Maurice Benayoun & Lisa Park SoYoung (Event Curators)
  • Charlie Yip & Vvzela Kook (Neuro Design Lab, SCM, CityU HK)
  • Hortense Boulais-Ifrene & Vivian Zech (Ars Electronica Gardens Team, Linz)
  • Christiana Kazakou (Garden LEONARDO LASER representative)
  • Chungyean Cho (Garden Seoul representative)
  • Helena Nikonole & Oxana Chvyakina (Garden Moscow representative)
  • Maurice Benayoun (Curator of EASEAS)
  • Ann Mak (Curator of Art in the Cloud & Garden Hong Kong exhibition)
  • De Kai & Ken Ueno (Clubhouse Chat Protagonists)
  • Eugenia Kim Sangmie (Scholar-Dancer VR dance collaborator for Garden Seoul)