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2026
Feb
2026.02.2? - a close-door lecture for a group of choreographers on the principles of micro narratives and their relevance to dance. Unlock Dancing Plaza
Jan
2026.01.12 - Lecture at Asian Art Roundtable (Kura-kura Gatherings), Mito Art Tower (Contemporary Art Centre, Mito). Lecture title: "Rhizomic Utopia & Organological Realities: a Review of the Experience of Floating Projects' 10-year Experiment"
2025
Oct-Nov
2025.11.08 - Guest Speaker at HART Haus Curatorship Incubation Programme curated by Vennes Cheng. Lecture title: "Taking a Line for a Wall through many explosion points: new knowledge, (re-)envisioned infrastructure for art curatorship."
2025.10.18-11.22 - Linda C.H. Lai's solo exhibition, "Folds, Wrinkles & Crevices of the Everyday" at LSK School of Creativity, curated by Kai-chun Yip, with Kel Lok as Production Supervisor. A 2-weekend videography retrospective with guest discussants.
2025.10.12 - Lecture on David Lynch's Inland Empire, post-screening at Cinefan program, Times Square, Causeway Bay.
Apr
2025.04.05 - - Kurt Chan and Linda Lai in conversation - 10:30am–1pm - Asia Art Archive'sTeeaching Lab this year gathers four local retired art professors. "Teaching Learning, Creating: Art School is Just the Beginning" [event details]...
Mar
2025.03.27 - Linda Lai, speaker at "Platform," ZKM at Art Basel Hong Kong. 2:00-6:00pm McAulay Studio, Hong Kong Art Centre. Symposium "MA 21 -- Practices, Reflections, and Pedagogies of Global Media Art Since 2000. "Full program [open...]"
2025.03.11 - new post on "Floating Teatime" on Floating Projects website: "Tracing my steps into art pedagogy for media art and for the new media environment 媒體藝術的涵蓋和教育實踐：細步走來，迂迴曲折" [READ...]
Feb
2025.02.22 - Post-screening discussion: Lars Von Trier's The Element of Crime, detective method as narrative strategies. 4:45-5:50pm. Element Cinema. CineFan event, HKIFF.
2024
Dec
2024.12.05 - In conversation with Silke Schmickl, CHANEL Lead Curator for Moving Image M+ in Artist Talk "Curation and Creative Practices in Hong Kong," at URBAN MEDIATIONS: International Conference ofn the Narratives, Ecologies and Poetics of the City, 5-6 December 2024, City University of Hong Kong and Chinese University of Hong Kong.
2024.11.24 -- 12.04 A 11-day art residency at Tao Yuan Museum of Fine Arts' Children's Art Centre to build the 4th iteration of my work Tree of Life -- Tree of Life Taoyuan Edition [物語生命樹] -- starting with a children's workshop in which they offered toys they would give away and perform a ritualistic farewell after telling the tories of their objects. The toys gathered formed the material of my on-site installation, which comprises of a main tree and a bush as an extension. My work, at the first room after the museum's entrance, is part of the "Re-imagining the Children's Encyclopedia" 《新說小百科》[... ...] (until 17 March 2025) on 4 different floors featuring different artists' works. The Exhibition opens on 4th December 2024, after a one-day test show with childfren, the press and docents. To read daily journal of the artist's on-site construction [OPEN]
Nov
End of samester: completed the current edition of "SM1701 Introduction to New Media Art" with Samson Young, common undergraduate core,220 students. A satisfying seminar of work.
End of samester: completed another edition of "SM2105 Narrative Strategies & Aesthetics for Time-Based Media," core course for BA in Creative Media, with 95 students. Some cool creative projects coming out of the semester.-- some cool videos, some die-hard analytical pictograms of moving-image works, and a handful of mind-blowing game-world concept plans
Oct
2024.10.03: Speaker at MFA seminar at Chinese University of Hong Kong's Fine Arts Department on the practice of research-creation. Title of talk: "Archaeologies and self, technics and historical discourses"
Sep
This semester, I will be back at the School of Creative Media as Adjunct Professor to teach two undergraduate core courses I had taught in the past: "Introduction to New Media Art" and "Narrative Strategies," engaging with a total of 200+ students in 13 weeks.
Aug
2024.08.29-31 Floating Projects will be featured at Tai Kwun's BOOKED 2024, with 20 new zine/monograph entries to add to 18 well read zine issues from the previous years, from young artistis' experimental visual story-tellings to art portfolios, personal journals, playbooks… and serious discussions on art, media and technology. In particular, we have started TWO series to grow -- FP Research and FP Worksheets. Works from me include "Writing & Creativity (from Linda Lai's teaching archive) and THREE titles from my art portfolio, "One Take: many iterations," "Domestic Moonlighting" and the essay-based "Videography as Tentacular Practice." All items will continue to be available at Floating Projects on-site.
Jul-Aug
Personal retreat time: research for a new video essay, production time for FP zines at BOOKED 2024 (August 2024)
May
End of samester: completed the final edition of "SM2702 Interdisciplinary Studies in the Arts, Sciences and Humanities" as common undergraduate core, with 176 students. It's been a fulfilling experience and I learned a lot.
Apr
2024.04.27 Workshop Leader: "藝術的實驗性、實驗性的藝術行動：互媒跨界實踐" (The experimental in art, experimental action, and interdisciplinary practice) - 2-5pm at Floating Projects. 2nd of 5 workshops, "Invisible Cities," interdisciplinary workshop series leading to a 2-week exhibition in August, organized by Ian Tang, The Hill Workshop 在山工作室[... ...]
2024.04.01 Moderator for film directorTsai Mingliang's post-screening discussion of Where (2022), Tai Kwun, 2:00pm
Mar
2024.03.30 Participating in Chow & Lin's "We Honestly Don't Know." WMA at Art Basel, Hong Kong Convention Centre. [WMA event announcement ...]
2024.03.24 Uploaded: an expanded version "preface" written for the School of Creative's 25th Anniversary graduates' show,Converging Parallela, opened on 14 March."I Dream That This List Would Be Rather Long... 推開後窗，我看見孜孜不倦的辛勞者在作業" on Floating Teatime [... ...].
2024.03.19 "Ana-Cartography II" -- real world narratives by reseachers from RCA, featuring Johnny Golding, Manu Luksch, Mukul Patel, Tom Simmons and John Wild. Seminar and performance, moderated by Linda C.H. Lai [FP event post ...]
Jan-May
2024.01.13 -- 05.31 I am teaching an undergraduate core course to 175 students: "Interdisciplinary Practices in the Arts, Science and the Humanities" at the School of Creative Media.
2023
Dec
2023.12.08 "The Provisional Imaginary " (Floating Projects) DnVeDigital-Normal/Video-Essay online video magazine issue 6 is out. Video features include fresh graduation experiments, Athens (Greece) based dancer Evi Pasaltou and company's dance videos, Natalie Lo's video excerpts, as well as Linda Lai's invocation on "what is a video essay." [go to the on-line iissue...]
Oct
2023.10.28 "Temporal and Material Fragments: fragmentation as a critical method, stretching the vocabulary of cinema " -- an hour-long talk and dialogue with M-plus curator Chanel Kong, after the screening of my video essay 10957 Moons & 30 Elliptical Years 《10957個陰晴圓缺》彙編錄像文章 (58 minutes, 2022) in the program Afterimage at M+ Museum [M+ Afterimage program notes ...]
2023.10.20 A conversation with the artist-choreographers Joseph Lee and Wai-lok Chan after their performance CLICK (Chan) and THIS WORK HAS THREE POSSIBLE TITLES:(Lee, choreographer), at Kwai Ching's Black Box theatre, a program by Unlock Dancing Plaza.
Sep
2023.09.16/23 Performance "Memory Court: the Soundings of Things" 《記憶庭院：浮塵、響物》"-- a 50-minute activation of my installation Tree of Life at Para Site's 3-chapter group show signals... (March - Sep 2023). Pantomine, lecture performance, sound with objects... Collaborators: Longman Luk, Valerie Mak. [PS program notes ... ...]
Aug - Oct
2023.08.30-10-29 'signals...here and there' screening at Para Site (10th floor): my video essay 10957 Moons & 30 Elliptical Years (58 minutes, 2022) with James Richards' Novel Pleasure (2023) [PS event description...] [Lai's archive...]
2023.08.12-09.29 Tree of Life + Bamboo Percussive《物語生命樹2023：扁擔鳴》 , site-specific mixed media installation in group show t ‘signals…folds and splits’, the 2ndl chapter of the exhibition series ‘signals…瞬息’ curated by Billy Tang and Celia Ho. [PS notes on the group show]
Jun-Jul
2023.06.28-07.12 Domestic Moonlighting: Local Housewives’ RMB94.7m for 57.5m kg, 1962-1989《家居副業：香港婦女1960-80年代的生產力，5750萬公斤，9470萬人民幣》, site-specific mixed media installation in group show in group show “Mending Years”〈縫補歲月〉, curated by Stella Tang, JCCAC, Gallery Level 0. [JCCAC announcement] [Floating Projects annoucnement w/ official press release]
2023.06.10-07.30 Tree of Life: Voices Lost and Found《物語生命樹2023：聲潛水》》, site-specific mixed media installation in group show t ‘signals…here and there’, the final chapter of the exhibition series ‘signals…瞬息’ curated by Billy Tang and Celia Ho. [PS notes on the group show] [my writing on my work... READ].
Apr - May
2023.04.28-05.01 Floating Projects and I participated in BOOKED, art book fair at Tai Kwun, Hong Kong. Floating Projects' publications (self-published zines and art books) [FULL LIST... ...] My zines include: Sand Adrift: Correspondences. Between Prose and Poetry《逐浪飄遊：沙對石。詩漂》(prose/poetry, 2023), Domestic Moonlighting (2023); Notes on the Video Essay (2023); Quarantine Diaries, 14 Oct to. 7 Nov 2021 (2023), Linda C.H. Lai and Zach McLane: Two Writer-Videographers in Dialogue (2023), and Sand Settling on Sand (2021, prose/poetry)
Mar - May
2023.03.18-05.18 Tree of Life: Iteration 2023《物語生命樹，代秩2023》, site-specific mixed media installation in group show t ‘signals…storms and patterns’, the firsl chapter of the exhibition series ‘signals…瞬息’ curated by Billy Tang and Celia Ho. [PS notes on the group show]
Mar
2023.03.15-19 My video essay 10957 Moons & 30 Elliptical Years 《10957個陰晴圓缺》彙編錄像文章 (58 minutes, 2022) at Traverse Video 2023, Toulouse, France [Lai's archive...]
Feb
2023.02.04-05 Floating Projects Collective: FP Assemblage at Asia Art Archive, performance,a two-day on-site intervention and performance at Asia Art Archive’s library. [AAA's program, with Linda Lai's writing and annotations] [Linda Lai's on-site automatic writing and sonification]
2022-2023
2022.12.21-2023.01.23 - 24 videographers with 29 video works from my concept-driven 13-week workshop "Micro NarrativesL "Objectiles of Forms of Living, the 'I' at work" -- in screening and on-site at Floating Projects.[Floating Teatime: ArtNotes: curatorial introduction... ] [Artnotes by various videographers...] [FP event post 1] [FP event post 2]2022
Sep
2022.09.06-27 My video essay 10957 Moons & 30 Elliptical Years 《10957個陰晴圓缺》彙編錄像文章 (58 minutes, 2022) was presented at EXiM (Macau Experimental Video Festival as a wall projection, Macau. [Floating Teatime: Artnotes...]
2022.09.10 Floating Projects at Ars Electronica's "State of the ARTists" Live Session: Day 2: "State of Urgency" -- interview with Linda Lai and Michael Leung on FP and DnVe. [documentation: see Day 2]
Aug
2022.08.23 Floating Projects' D-Normal/V-Essay Online Video Zine, issues 1-4 is Winner of Ars Electronica 2022 "State of the ART(ist) Award," Linz, Austria. OFFICIAL CITATION:https://calls.ars.electronica.art/2022/stateoftheartist/winners/5922/
2022.08.03 At M+ musuem: Dreams and Hallucinations at the Mediatheque". Linda Lai and Vennes Cheng in converstion on Lai's video work Voices Seen, Images Heard moderated by M+ Curator of Moving Image Ulanda Blair. Online event.
July
2022.07.30 Lecture for WMC_e7 (Writing Machine Collective Edition 7) -- "Knowledge Asymmetries in the Age of Machine Learning" -- ANNOTATIONS 2, "Living in the Age of Convergence: (working through) the scientific images, manifest images and the aesthetic images", online lecture in Cantonese, registration required.
Jun-Aug
2022,06-08 Floating Projects as partner-collaborator with Gudskul at Documenta 15, 50-day co-iiving with collaborative art and educational events
May
2022.05.22 School of Creative Media MFA Graduation and Student Show 2022 "The Wasteland" - online artists' talk Memory Practices & Archiving with MFA graduating artists PUN Tsz-wai and LO Wan-ki. [talk documentation]
Apr
2022.04.29 - 05.01 Manifestos 1 (Videography. Micro Narratives. Temporal Beings. Our Manifesto) and Manifestos 2 (Our Manifestos 2: Videography, Documentary Impulses) shown at artist Dorothy Wong's stall at MISS READ, House of World Culture, Berlin, Germany
2022.04.20 Interviewed by graduate student (HKU-Fine Art) researching on Floating Projects as a case study in art collective experiments and problems
2022.04.04 [selector, curator, editor] Issue #4 "Voices in the Atmosphere" -- 24 short videos made in times of isolation -- for D-Normal, V-Essay online video zine went online. [visit...]
Mar
2022.03.26-27 Reposted with expansion and revision: "On Documentary Impulse: the Desire to Encounter the Real through Making Records" 1-2 on Floating Teatime. [read...], first published in Our Manifestos 2: Videography, Documentary Impulses (2021.05).
2022.03.17 Interviewed by Dr. Stephanie DeBoer, academic research on urban screen culture in Hong Kong
2022.03.01 Juror at IFVA-Media Art,Incubator for Film and Visual Media Art [jury meetingnotes: Chinese | English]
2021-2022
Oct 21 - Apr 22
2021.10-2022.04 [participant researcher] in Asia Art Archive's "Collecting the Collectives"research project, on behalf of the Floating Projects Collective, with Roof Top Institute (HK) and Gudskul (Jarkata).
2021
Dec
2021.12.19 Speaker, “Networked Subjectivities and Documentary Impulses” 「網絡主觀性與記述的衝動」, at BOOKED: Hong Kong Art Book Fair 2021. Tai Kwun Contemporary, Central, Hong Kong.
2021.12.16-19 Poetry work turned into zine -- Sand Settling on Sand --at BOOKED, Taikwun
Sep
2021.09.10-25 Poetry work in "Sand Settling on Sand," a Non-solo of Jamsen Law in association with Linda Lai, Verdy Leung, Anson Mark and Annie Wan.
Aug
2021.08.5-29 Video La Casa 1-3 (The House, the Flat, the Apartments) at "20C," a Non-Solo of Elaine Wong in association with Yarli Allison, Ivy Ma and Linda Lai.
May
2021.05 300-page book Our Manifestos II: Videography, Documentary Impulse(ed. by Linda Lai, with videos on scan disk is out with a series of book launch seminars.
Apr
2021.04.22 Microwaves International New Media Art Festival's interview with me is now uploaded, on "Connecting the Dots," an ADC Arts Go Digtial initiative. 「以藝術釐清與世界的關係：與黎肖嫻對談」- http://www.microwavefest.net/connectingthedots/article/linda/
2021.04 10 Video documentation of my participation in panel discussion "Film Studies" -- part of OxHKForum organized by the Oxford-Hong Kong Scholars is now uploaded:
Mar
2021.03 31 D-Normal/V-Essay video zine #2 "The Ultra-Realist, the Extra-Ordinary" is out: [... ...]
Feb
2021.02 05 to 2020.06.13 "Linda Chiu-han Lai, Retrospective" at Centro de Creacion Contemporanea de Andalucia (C3A), Cordoba, Spain:[English.] [Spanish] Feature essay by artist: "Videography as Tentacular Practices" by Linda Lai [Spanish version]
2020
Dec
2020.12 31 D-Normal/V-Essay video zine #1 "Ocular Oracular" is out: [... ...]
Nov
2020.11 05 official on-line platform launched. D-Normal/V-Essay, an on-line video essay magazine with an open call platform, a Linda Lai projet awarded by the Hong Kong Ars Develpment Council's Arts Go Digital initiative, execuated by the Floating Projects Collective, Nov 2020 to June 2021 phase 1 experiment. http://d-normal-v-essay-floatingprojectscollective.net
Oct
2020.10 27 On-line talk/interview- "Why an Archive" Talk #1 - Linda Lai and Angel Leung of Videotage in conversation with Ariane Beyn Arsenal – Institute & Times Art Center Berlin, on Videotage, Berlin, Germany
Aug
2020.09.09-13 Featured on-line appearance in the session "Art Survival Practices," in Garden Hong Kong by School of Creative Media / CityU HK, Ars Electronica 2020: A 6-minute introduction to Linda Lai's art experiment on participation and survival, Floating Projects: https://hkgarden.scm.cityu.edu.hk/2020/08/media-art-practitioner-linda-lai/ | Youtube video: https://youtu.be/xfDh2x3lHJE
July
2020.07.2-19 A group show curated by Linda Lai on narrativity: The Ventriloquists: Thinking Narratively, with works by 49 student, including videos, pictograms, writings and photography at the Floating Projects. The Ventriloquists series (artists' and curator's notes) On CityU's School of Creative Media's Virtual Gallery [......]
Mar - May
2020.03.13 - 05.022 "Hong Kong - Tales of the City" group show at Denny Dimin Gallery, New York City. Virtual ehibition On-line panel. Introduction of Linda Lai's participating video, "Why did I make Door Games Window Frames: Near Drama (single-channel version)?"
Mar - April
2020.03-04 Video Manifesto 2: Documentary Impulse; 40 artists met up in 4 on-line workshops for a writing and video publishing project.
2019
Aug
2019 / August 29 // Elemental Dynamite: Research on the Intermedia Practice in Animated Pictures《原格破裂 - 動畫的互媒實驗綜覽》, a year-long research on the animated picture and its expanded forms in HK & PRC will begin 29 August with an animation screening and workshop series at Hong Kong Art Centre's Louis Koo Cinema:
2019.08.29 (THU), "The Third Eye: a Retrospective of Nobuhiro Aihara"
2019.08.30 (FRI), Regional Experimentations:: "Photographic Survey & Free Radicals" (Curated by Hangjun Lee, EXiS Artistic Director)
Apr
2019 / until April 30 // Lost Textures (mixed media site-specific installation, stairwell of 17th-15th floor, H Queen's, 80 Queen's Road Central), Linda Lai's collaboration with FPC members Kel Lok, Michelle Lee and Winnie Yan, at Public Art project "Exit Strategies" (2019) curated by David HY Chan, [on H Queen's wesite...]
TWO recent media appearance/coverage on my recent works:
***2019 / April 26/29 Hong Kong 01 (phllosophy) on Algorithmic Art: Shuffling Space & Time | "打開演算藝術的黑盒：《演算藝術》策展人黎肖嫻訪談｜曾泓" [read...in Chinese]
***2019 / April 26 Ming Pao (culture) on Lost Textures at H Queen's in relation to Van Gogh Alive Hong Kong | 2019年4月26日《明報》副刊「文化力場」： “多感官體驗 挑戰賞畫方式 梵高星夜遭「劏開」| 劉彤茵” [read...in Chinese]
Mar
2019 / March 24 // I participated in the "Not as Trivial as You Think: Hong Kong Art Quiz" (C & G) as a member of the artists' team Angel Beta (with Gigi Leung, Ricky Yeung and team leader Wong Chun-hoi), at Oil, 12 Oil Street, North Point, Hong Kong
2019 / March 13-17 // Three video works are shown at 22nd edition of Traverse Video (2019) at Toulouse, France: No Paths but my Footprints (2010), Diaries: Dry Rain (1999) and Doors Medley (2012) [...]
2019 / March 1 - April 30 // Lost Textures (mixed media site-specific installation, stairwell of 17th-15th floor, H Queen's, 80 Queen's Road Central), Linda Lai's collaboration with FPC members Kel Lok, Michelle Lee and Winnie Yan, at Public Art project "Exit Strategies" (2019) curated by David HY Chan, [on H Queen's wesite...]
Jan/Feb
2019 / Jan 18 - Feb 23 // My video Doors Medley was shown in Episode II: Towards Economy of "The D-Tale, Video Art from the Pearl River Delta" at Times Art Centre Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2018
Dec
2018 / Dec 29 // I am featured in an hour-long session in Samson Young's "It's a Heaven Over There" (RTHK Radio 4 FM97.6), which debates the notion of utopia on a city-wide touring broadcast van for 12-hour live broadcast.Jockey Club New Arts Power 2018, presented by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.
2018 / Dec 27 - Jan 10 // An exhibition for the general public, Algorithmic Art: Shuffling Space and Time, I curated to celebrate the 20 years of the School of Creative Media, is published at the City Hall's Exhibition Hall, Lower Block, City Hall, to articulate the promise of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics + art/design). [official website...] [interview artist with HK01]
Nov
2018 / Nov 28-29 // "Remembering a Performance," a lecture at the Asia Art Archive and workshop "Objects & Stories: Remembrance and Narrative of the Past" at Lingnan University - Cultural Studies Department. [Details...]
Oct
2018 / Oct 6-21 // My video work 72 Tenants (2012) was shown in the curatorial project "TIAMAT: All These Worlds Are Yours Except Earth, curated by Hui Wai-keung, at Comix Home Base, Hong Kong.
Aug
My tableau-miniature object sculpture "Threshold Crossing: the Cartographic Imaginary" 越界藍圖 on show at "Cabinets of Curiosities: from the Natural Sciences to the Art of Nature," curated by Isabelle Frank, at CityU Exhibition Gallery
July
My tableau-miniature object sculpture "Threshold Crossing: the Cartographic Imaginary" 越界藍圖 on show at "Cabinets of Curiosities: from the Natural Sciences to the Art of Nature," curated by Isabelle Frank, at CityU Exhibition Gallery
2018.07.08 Book launch for Videography. Micro Narratives. Temporal Beings. Our Manifesto (published by Floating Projects); edited and instructed by Linda Lai. Artists: Dorothy Wong, Don Tsang, Ding Cheuk-laam, Gloria Shum, Ryan Chan, Anna Chim and Tony Hui [news...]
May
2018 / May 26 // I did a lecture titled "New Media Arts and Micro Narratives" organized by the Leisure & Cultural Services, at the Hong Kong Visual Art Centre, Hong Kong, to survey the impetuses to the evolvement of New Media Arts. [Brief...]
2018 / May 24 - 19 August // My work, a tableau-miniature object sculpture titled "Threshold Crossing: the Cartographic Imaginary" 越界藍圖 will be part of the show "Cabinets of Curiosities: from the Natural Sciences to the Art of Nature" featuring artists from France and Hong Kong as part of French May 2018, CityU Exhibition Gallery. [feature on the show] [description of my piece on my work archive...]
2018 / May 11 // I received the Artist of the Year (Media Art) 2017 Award tonight at the Hong Kong Arts Development Award Presentation Ceremony at the TVB Studio. [awardees...] [English Press Release...] [citation...]
Mar
2018 / Mar 28 // I shall chair a dialogue between artist/scholar/composer Trinh T. Minha and Turner Prize winning artist Wolfgrang Tillmans during the Art Basel period, a program co-presented by the ICA (UK), M+ and HK Arts Centre. [announcement: M+] [announcement: HKAC] [ICA announcements: 1, 2]
2018 / Mar 25 - May 6 // My installation series (a set of 4 objects with a wall-projected annotation) "Ruminations: a montage on Hong Kong's (post)Coloniality," opens with 25 other artists from Latin America, Mexico, and Southeast Asia in the group show The Sun Teaches Us That History is Not Everything, curated by Raphael Fonseca, Osage Art Foundation, Hong Kong. [Press Release: Osage] [announcement: Brazil...]
2018 / Mar 23 - Apr 9 // My curatorial series, Micro Narratives is on at Floating Projects, showing single-channel videos and vidoe installation by students from a course on experimentations in videography I taught Sep-Dec 2017. The show, titled "Lingering Liminality: the Realm of Process, Experimentation and the In-between," is curated by Elaine Wong (MFA student, SCM). Web posting [...] | Full catalogue [...]
2018 / Mar 15-17 // I conducted field study as a participant observer at the 3-day international symposium on machine/deep learning, "Ars Incognita: Poetics of Artificial Creativity," C3A (Centro Contemporaneo de Creacion de Andalucia), Cordoba, Spain, co-presented by C3A and CityU-HK's School of Creative Media. I also introduced the Writing Machine Collective and the Floating Projects in Hong Kong to give a broader picture of the context in HK. [annoucement...][official website...]
2017
Nov
2017 / Nov 25-26 // "In Search of a Sculptural Dialectics: moving image, a materialist, intermedia game" [活动影像雕塑论：意识上扬，专注力的调理，唯物、跨媒的无尽辩证], lecture in English presented at the 4th East Bridge - Camera in Action - 2017 Asia "Moving Image" Forum; 行动的摄影机 2017 亚洲“影像艺术”论坛 [program...][coverage...][details, abstract...]
2017 / Nov 13 // "Videography: a Materialist, Intermedia Game," in panel "Urban Photography: Making, Researching, Teaching"; "The City as Playground," Urban PhotoFest, Photographers Gallery, London, UK. [program+abstract...]
2017 / Nov 11 // "Presencing the past, a montage experience: walking through a series of temporal nodes," in panel "Cartographies of Time: a Series of Dialogues"; "Urban Encounter 2017: Cartographies," Urban PhotoFest, Tate Britain, London, UK. [program+abstract...]
2017 / Nov 05 // "From Stake-holders to (Re-)grounders: a philosophical re-grounding of the role of artists and the artis for 21st century Hong Kong" (「從持分者到基礎【再】打造者：重構二十一世紀香港藝術實踐的哲學思辨」) at The "Art Talk Series III" organzied by Art Readers; MUSE Art & Books, Basement, Hotel Stage; Hong Kong, together with artist Dr. Ho Siu-kee, moderated by Dr. Stella Tang. [Event details + abstract...]
Oct
2017 / until Oct 27 // "Mnemonic Archiving: a Dispersive Monument HK" at The Third Script 2.0, Pearl Lam Gallery.
Sep
2017 / Sep 21 - Oct 27 // "Mnemonic Archiving: a Dispersive Monument HK,"a site-specific installation (9m x 9m), with object-sculptures, photography, lightboxes and over 20 video components, embedded in furniture and every day objects, as part of the 2-person independent solo with Boo Junfeng, at The Third Script 2.0 curated by Davide Chan, Pearl Lam Galleries - Soho, Hong Kong. [ambience video by PLG...][press release English...][art review 01] [art review 02][art review 03]
Aug
2017 / Aug 26 // "Orientations: Boundaries Survey," Asia Forum program I curated for EXiS 2017 (screened 16 July 2017), was presented at Floating Projects in the program "Orientations in Video Art: mapping the 'before' and 'art' of a artwork"; with a new focus on the examination of the diversity of artistic labor underlining video art creation. Special presentation by Elaine Wong on the thought process and early drafts of Phantoms of 20C, and Hector Rodriguez on the philosophical, conceptual and mathematical thinking behind his video art and his works in progress. [...]
Jul
2017 / July 14 // SCM Annual, graduation show of SCM undergraduate students, with the theme "Unfold" opens today until 30 July, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, School of Creative Media. announcement [...] / official website [...]
2017 / Jul 13-20 // EXiS 2017 (Experimental Film & Video Festival Seoul): I shall be involved in THREE capacities - (1) artist in focus with a solo screening as part of "Indi-Visual" including the world primiere of my new video Micro Narratives: a Visual Poem 《微敘事：詩變》 (2017) [...]; (2) curator of "Orientations: Boundaries Surveyed" in "Asia Forum" with a presentation [...]; and (3) juror for EX-Now. [...]; Korean Film Archive and Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea.
Jun
2017 / Jun 30 // Wall installation "Blasting Modernities 1930s: Techniques of the Self" 《「摩登」法寶：眾聲喧鬧1930s》 (21 components including 5 videos and 16 light-boxes of varied sizes) as part of Para Site Artspace's curatorial special "In Search of Miss Ruthles,"curated by Hera Chan and David Xu Borjongon, opening 30 June and on until 10 Sep 2017 at Para Site Artspace, Hong Kong. [see work details...]
2017 / Jun 29 // An interim report on the experiment on survival of the Floating Projects - "Implementation report – Floating Projects" - by the Floating Projects Collective is one of the 5 projects presented at 1a's TALK OVER/HANDOVER 2.0 [FPC 句點藝術群體@〈廿年回歸前後話 〉展覽 - 《攤開據點 ─ 藝術工場 中期報告》] [...] at 1a Space, Cattle Depot, Hong Kong, with live camera view of FP's site in Wong Chuk Hang through the entire exhibition period..
2017 / Jun 16-24 // Research trip in Germany: Documenta XIV (Kassel), Skulptur Projekte (Muenster), ZKM (Karlsruhe)
May
2017 / May 21-28 // Research trip in Spain: "Houdini the Law of Amazement" (Espacio Fundacion Telefonica), "Arte y Cine. 120 años de intercambios" (La Caixa Forum) in Madrid // LOOP Barcelona Video Art Fair & Festival 2017 in Barcelona
2017 / May 12 // Talk at Video Bureau (Guangzhou): " Linda Lai: Video art as a performance for writing and memories"; in dialogue with artist Huang Xiaopeng. [...]讲座：“录像作为书写和记忆的演述”，录像局－广州，中山五路昌兴街 7 号二层 ·
2017 / May 10 // Guest on Metro Radio FM99.7: on “Floating Projects” – interview with Jaffa Lam, 4:00-5:00pm, (新城電台 FM99.7，世界隨意門，4-5pm, 藝術閒話，談「據點」計畫 // to listen to the first half of the program […]; to listen to the second half of the program […] (in Cantonese)
2017 / May 6 // Speaker at 香港紀錄片回顧專題：80-97 (a special retrospective of Hong Kong documentaries), Lee Siu Kee Creative College, Hong Kong
Mar
New essay published:〈在「人類紀」以活動影像為據點重整「辯證結構」〉《新美術》2017年2月，中國美術學院學報，總38卷，118-131頁，中國杭州。[essay “Moving Image as a tactical location to restore ‘dialectical structures’ in the Anthropocene,” in special issue on the Anthropocene, Journal of the National Academy of Art (CAA Journal), v. 38, number 2, 2017, pp. 118-131, Hangzhou, Feb 2017] [Read...]
2017 / Mar 20-25 // "Levitated Potentiality," a show I curated for Art Central 2017's MEDIA X MUMM (experimental moving image session) is on in 2 parts by the MUMM's champagne session, featuring three film projections by Guy Sherwin and Lynn Loo and 16 digital videos by 12 digital media artists in four image sequences [official post] [my writing on the project]
2017 / Mar 18 // My jury work for the 22nd IFVA (Incubator for Film and Visual Media Art) completed on 18th March in the Award Presentation Ceremony. [read minutes of final juror's meeting...in Chinese only]
Feb-Mar
2017 / Feb 15 - 10 Mar // Door Games, Window Frames: Near Drama (single-channel video version 《景框戲門》(單窗錄像版) is part of Videotage's "CHINA REMIXED" public video art exhibition in three venues at the Indianna University (USA), curated by Isaac Leung, presented by the IU Arts & Humanities Council.
Jan
2017 / Jan 14 // Lecture at Cinefan's Abbas Kiarostami film series, 3:30-4:30pm, Hong Kong Film Archive.
2016
Oct
2016 / Oct 19 // Lecture at Cine Fan's Naruse Mikio film series, "女性塑形∶ 通俗劇的異化與市場生存策略 /《情蜜意亂》探討“ - a lecture on Naruse Mikio's Yearning (1964), titled "Configuring Women: Melodrama Defamiliarized and Survival Tactics in the Market," at Hong Kong Film Archive.
Sep
2016 / Sep 23 // Video Bureau 錄像局 (Guangzhou, Beijing) has been archiving my video works, and is officially published today: [Chinese interface] [English interface]. I am now the 55th international video artists and 3rd from Hong Kong they have archived.
2016 / Sep 22 (to 19 March 2017) // Doors Medley 《重重門。門對門。》 at TIME TEST, International Video Art Research Exhibition, CAFA (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, will be moved to Guangzhou at C3, Redtory Art District, in the program "Simultaneity: Reframing Hong Kong II." The event is a joint effort of CAFA Art Museum and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University.
Aug
2016 / Aug 6 // hosting Q&A with artist Hugo Yeung at 6:30-8:45pm, Floating Projects, for the Highlights event of the exhibitio What Death Tells Me ; Cinema as Computation, Aurality, Vision by Hugo YEUNG Ming-him 《死亡如是說》—— 計算；聲音；動像 楊鳴謙個人展覽 [...]. The event will also show the artist's full work.
2016 / Aug 4 - Sep 15 // Door Game《戲門》(25m52s, 2005, 4:3, b/w+color) at Not Early Not Late 不早不晚, a group exhibition of video works by female artists, at Pace Gallery, Beijing [...] with works by Chen Qiulin, Hao Jingban, Hu Xiaoyuan, Ma Qiusha, Yao Qingmei, Yin Xiuzhen, Lei Benben etc. [catalog...]
Jul
Mnemonic Archiving: a Dispersive Monument 《記憶存庫：流散的碑誌》 at THE THIRD SCRIPT, Pearl Lam Galleries-Singapore until 3rd July. Complete CATALOG [...] Video ambience [...]
2016 / Jul 2 - Aug 28 // Doors Medley 《重重門。門對門。》 at TIME TEST, International Video Art Research Exhibition, CAFA (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. 时间测试：国际录艺术观摩展，中央美术学院美术馆， 北京。[...]
2016 / Jul 6-8 // Research tour in Bergamo and Madrid on media art and video art...
Jun
Object-Subjectivities 《重塑：東西遊戲》 at NO REFERENCES, Videotage, Cattle Depot, Hong Kong, until 16th June, satellite exhibition for ISEA2016. Documentation on my work archive [installation+performance...][performance only...]
2016 / My video work Doors Medley 《重重門。門對門。》 at LOOP Barcelona Video Art Festival & Fair 2016, 30 May to 4 June, Barcelona, Spain.
May
2016 / May 19 - Jun 16 // My new work, a spatialized chronology on the history of media art in Hong Kong, Object-Subjectivities 《重塑：東西遊戲》 will be on as a satellite exhibition organized by Videotage for the ISEA 2016 Conference and Exhibition. The Floating Projects Collective will be the back-up team and turn my exhibition into a live performance at the opening of the show. Complete CATALOG for the exhibition + Press Release [...] Documentation on my work archive [installation+performance...][performance only...]
2016 / May 7 - Jul 3 // I will exhibit a new work, a mixed-media installation with video components, titled Mnemonic Archiving: a Dispersive Monument 《記憶存庫：流散的碑誌》 in a double solo with Singaporean artist BOO Junfeng in the month-long show The Third Script [...] curated by David Chan at Pearl Lam Gallery, Singapore. Artist's conversation 3:30-4:30pm; Opening reception 5:00pm. Complete CATALOG [...] Video ambience [...]
Mar
2016 / Mar 17 // I am invited to do a talk titled, "Floating Projects, Survival Re-envisioned: spatial occupation, re-producing social relations and the economy of contribution," on the first day of the conference 'Hard State, Soft City: the Urban Imaginative Field in Singapore' (17-18 March 2016), organized by the ARI (Asia Research Institute), NUS (the National Univervsity of Singapore), at the NUS Museum, Singapore. [to down program and abstracts...]
Jan
2016 / Jan 9 // "Concrete Videos," a 2-hour single-channel screening showing some of the best works created by my students in Micro Narratives (a 13-week workshop on experiments in videography) was presented at the Floating Projects, Hong Kong, to a group of experienced artists and curators.
2015
Dec
2015 / Dec 14 // I gave a talk at the Research Seminars 2015-2016 series, London School of Film, Media and Design, University of West London, London, UK. I talked about two of my video works on the phenomenology of moving images.
Nov
2015 / Nov 13-15 // "香港實驗影像活動 Hong Kong Experimental Video Festival in Macao" [...] is the theme of the upcoming edition of EXiM 2015 (Experimental Film & Video Festival in Macao). Three works of mine will be featured in a solo screening, titled Writing the Fracture and Immersion of Memory Texts: Linda Lai Video Art Solo Screening (書寫記憶文本之斷裂與滲透：黎肖嫻錄像藝術放映) [read...], curated by Bianca Lei, on at 8:00pm, 14 Nov, at Ox Warehouse, Macau. That same afternoon, at 4:00pm, an hour-long program I curated, Critical Spectacles, Wandering Visions (凝神、界外) [read...], showcases video art by my students at SCM. [Trailer HERE]
2015 / Nov 7 // I organized a 2-hour seminar, titled "另一隻火鳥：錄像藝術 沙龍" (the other firebird: a saloon on video art) for the Hong Kong Film Culture Centre (2:00-4:00pm) in which local video artists Jamsen Law and Howard Cheng joined me for a conversation on the varied ancestries of video art.
Oct
2015 / Oct 22 // My colleague Ingrid Hoelzl's book launch party for Softimage (Intellect Books) will take place in Wong Chuk Hang at the Floating Projects. Damien Charrieras and I will join Hoelzl in an open dialogue to explore the book's themes, followed by a semi-improvized performance by the Acoustic Glitch Ensemble.
Sep
2015 / Sep 11-Oct 11 // My video work Door Games, Window Frames: Near Drama (single-channel version) was part of Videotage's "Both Sides Now" screened at Brighton, Leicester and London, UK.
2015 / Sep 08-22 // Wong Chuk Hang Assemblage #2 at Floating Projects 據點。句點 - 2nd edition of our always in-progress re-cycling/re-purposing scavenged objects installation series
2015 / Sep 04 // Clare Tyrrell-Morin's piece "Hong Kong's emerging 'Occupation Points': Linda Lai - interview" went on line on Art Radar [...], featuring Floating Projects 據點。句點 and my artworks on the history of everyday life.
Aug
2015 / Aug 22-23 // Grand Opening (part 2) of the 2-weekend Floating Projects 據點。句點 celebration. Grand Opening 02 - "Journeys of Food, London, Hong Kong - TWO forums by Dr. Daisy TAM ("Locating Alternative Food Chains") and artist Natalie LO ("How food and farming solves my hesitation and questions on alternative life, as an artist") + Moving Moving-image performance for the Ghost Festival + special "nano concert" featuring electronic music plus 3 Aries Sunday evening [...]
2015 / Aug 19 // coverage of Floating Projects "[新。艺空间]艺术游戏，经济实验：Floating Projects" in 《立场新闻》 Standnews [...] by Grace.
2015 / Aug 15-16 // Grand Opening (part 1) of the 2-weekend Floating Projects 據點。句點 celebration. Grand Opening 01 - "Pure Seeing...Magic!!! - a 2-day moving image marathon [...]
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2015 / Jul 16 // My FPC (Floating Projects Collective 句點) project has been revamped into the Floating Projects 據點。句點 with a new space in Wong Chuk Hang: a wi-fi reading room + art production/exhibition space + a place to gather to chat over a cup of coffee. Please coime to visit us [old website still in use][new website in trial phase in progress] We are open: 12:00-8:00pm Tuesdays to Sundays... |
2015 / Jul 15 // My essay, "Video Art in Hong Kong: Organologic Sketches for a Dispersive History"〈錄像藝術在香港：一個飄散的歷史存實的內部勾描 〉(bi-lingual), in Hong Kong Visual Art Yearbook 2014, pp. 14-93, was published.
2015 / Jul 7- Oct 22 // My video work Doors Medley 《重重門。門對門。》 (2014, 7 min.) will travel as part of Videotage's "Both Sides Now II – It was the Best of Times, it was the Worst of Times?" [彼岸观自在 2] to Leicester (Phoenix Cinema and Art Centre), Hastings (Electric Palace), Brighton (Fabrica), Portsmouth (Aspex Gallery) and London (ICA) in the United Kingdom, and to Shanghai (Chronus Art Center and Ray Art Center) and Hong Kong (Connecting Space HK and British Council HK) [...]
Jun
2015 / Jun // My essay “Documenting Sentiments in Video Diaries around 1997: archaeology of forgotten screen practices” in A Companion to Hong Kong Cinema (eds E. M.K. Cheung, G. Marchetti and E. C.M. Yau), John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ. Pp. 462-487 - available on-line [...].
2015 / Jun 27 // My video work Trespassing World Cities 《搖擺過路人》 (2005, 28min.) was shown as part of a mobile roof-top screening event Level Note One Two - #2 by independent art group "case-open-close" on the roof-top of no. 245 Ap Liu Street, Shamshuipo (Tin Tong Design for backpackers) [Facebook: "case-open-close"], Hong Kong
2015 / Jun 26 // A 118-page full proceedings of the WMC_e5, Tracing Data: What You See is Not What We Write, Prcceedings (2015) is ready for download on WMC's website [...]
2015 / Jun 18 // Received citation as one of HK's 10 best artist by Culturetrip: http://theculturetrip.com/asia/hong-kong/articles/the-10-best-hong-kong-artists-where-to-find-them/
May
2015 / May 28-Jun 6 // LOOP-Barcelona 2015. I brought a showcase of SCM video art with works by faculty members, graduates and current students to the Loop Festival, Barcelona, Spain. My experimental video La Casa 1-2 (aka The House, The Flat) 《居所一二》[...] was screened as world primiere as part of the "Micro Narratives: Invented Time-Space." My video Doors Medley 《重重門。門對門。》 (2014, 7 min.) was shown as part of Videotage's program, Simultaneity – Reframing, Hong Kong (curated by Isaac Leung) as part of the Hong Kong in Barcelona Loop 2015 hosted by Casa Asia. I also curated Hong Kong Crossings for the Loop Fair. [full program...]
2015 / May 13-30 // On the Road 2015, a showcase of art works from students in Bachelor of Arts in Creative Media; co-curated with Samson Young and Lee Kai-chung; Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Hong Kong.
2015 / May 9 // Over View [...] travels to Hong Kong; at Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Level 3, Hong Kong.
Feb
2015 / Feb 22-26 // Facilitated by the International Network for a Critical Philosophy of Media and Technics in China, Hui Yuk (initiator of the Network) and I organized a 2-day series (23-24 Feb), themed "Pharmacology of the automatic society to come," in which French philosopher and critical theorist Prof. Bernard Stiegler will lecture to the public and have discussions with faculty members at SCM. After Stiegler's trip in Hong Kong, he will carry on his trip in Hangzhou (China Art Academy) and Nanjing (Nanjing University) until March 9 when he will return to Paris.
2014
Oct
2014 / Oct 9-22 // After many months' preparation, the 5th edition of the Writing Machine Collective [...] I founded (2004) will take place at Connecting Space-HK (Fort Street, North Point). Titled "Tracing Data: What You Read is Not What We Write," this ADC-funded event showcased 12 works by new media artists from Hong Kong, Canada, the US and the UK with an elaborate talk/workshop series. My latest computational automated expanded cinema work, Vaulting Space 《翻腾空》, [...] will be premiered as part of the exhibition. A bilateral opening on 9 Oct 2014 also includes 4 Hong Kong works adapted in the Zurich space.
Full catalogue for Tracing Data on WMC's website [...]
Aug
2014 / Aug 28 // My new experimental video La Casa 1-2 (aka The House, The Flat) 《居所一二》[...] is given Award of Merit for the Aug 2014 season of The IndieFilm Awards, a global film competition for cinematic gems and unique voices.
2014 / Aug // Doors Medley 《重重門。門對門。》[...] (7 minutes, 2014), a remix of two of my previous works Door Game (2005) and Door Games Window Frames (2013), with a re-focus on image-text interplay and gender-based performative mannerism in HK-film melodrama in 1960s, will be part of a traveling showcase in 8 cities around the world. The traveling program, Over View, is a cross-border collaboration. The Hong Kong program is curated by Phoebe Man. Over View is the collaborative work of 8 curators from Hong Kong, Egypt, USA, Mali, Australia (Sydney), the Netherlands, Costa Rica and Brazil. The kick-off world tour primiered on 24 Aug 2014 at De Kaaij Festival, the Netherlands. The next stop will be San Francisco's SOMArts Gallery (19 Sep - 6 Oct 2014), then to various venues in the participating regions within the year ahead,
2014 / Aug 15-28 // Narrative Pictogram 《敘述象形圖》, a group exhibition I curated showed 20 pictograms by 18 BA-Creative Media students, who deployed visual strategies from cartography, graphic notation, chronology and experimental story-boarding to (1) analytically visualize known works of film and literature and (2) to create blue-prints for works to be made. [...]
2014 / Aug 14-20 // Door Games, Window Frames: Near Drama (single-channel video version 《景框戲門》(單窗錄像版) will be exhibited at Osage-Kwuntong, Hong Kong, as part of Both Sides Now: Somewhere between Hong Kong and the UK.
Jul
2014 / Jul 13 // Door Games, Window Frames: Near Drama (single-channel video version 《景框戲門》(單窗錄像版) will be shown at Floating Cinema, King's Cross, London, UK, as part of Both Sides Now: Somewhere between Hong Kong and the UK.[...]
2014 / Jul 5 // Door Games, Window Frames: Near Drama (single-channel video version 《景框戲門》(單窗錄像版) will be shown at Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK, as part of Both Sides Now: Somewhere between Hong Kong and the UK [...]
Jun
2014 / Jun 24-26 // My video work Door Games, Window Frames: Near Drama (single-channel video version 《景框戲門》(單窗錄像版) is part of a traveling showcase Both Sides Now: Somewhere between Hong Kong and the UK, organized by Videotage, and supported by Osage Art Foundation (HK), Arts Council England, Brighton & Hove City Council, Connections through Culture (British Council), Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. [Videoclub posting...] [Full proposed program...]
Jun 24: FACT (Liverpool) [...]; Jun 25: Broadway (Nottingham); Jun 26: Duke's at Komedia (Brighton) [...]
2014 / Jun 20 // After 6 months of preparation, rounds of consulation and 4 days of set-up plus critique, 'One The Road' finally opened. This is a show I curated for 8 Year-2 undergraduate students in SCM's 4-year curriculum. It is a kind of mid-way push, but also a proactive approach to create experiences on how an idea becomes a work in the presence of its visitors in a proper exhibition. Here are related pages with notes and announcement on this event, at 1a Space, Cattle Depot, Hong Kong, June 21-July 5, 2014. Local artists and art-writers/researchers Warren Leung, Phoebe Man, Leung Po-shan and Jeff Leung led a round-table discussion with 7 artists on June 21, in addition to a critique session with SCM alumni-artists on June 15. [...] [主場新聞...] [Facebook...]
Jan
2014 / Jan 8 // My Ph.D. student Isaac Leung successfully defended his thesis, A History of the Present - an Ethnographic Study of Contemporary Chinese Art, in front of his oral examination panel with art historian Dr. Sophia Law and sociologist/cultural theorist Prof. Scott Lash, and chaired by Dr. Steve Fore.
2013
Dec
2013 / Dec 9-12 // My work will be part of the artwork session of the 16th Generative Art Conference [...], Milan, Italy. My presentation includes an 18-minute demo of the automated version of Door Games, Window Frames: Near Drama 《景框戲門》spcially cut for the conference, with a long text [...] [...] under the title "Door Games, Windonw Frames: Near Drama / Generative Cinema."
Oct
2013 / Oct 4 // The algorithmic automated installation version of Door Games, Window Frames: Near Drama 《景框戲門》 is offical selection of the Hong Kong Contemporary Art Award 2012 exhibition, which opens on October 4 at the Hong Kong Museum of Art. Exhibition will end 5 Jan 2014.
2013 / Oct // My essay 「荡游者何往？——中国大陆九十年代城市电影的“空间实践”与“负诗学”」is published in《城市一代：世纪之交的中国电影与社会 ／纪录·影像：海外与中国》，张真编，复旦大学出版社。ISBN/ISSN 9787309099393
Sep
2013 / Sep 27-28 // I shall deliver a paper titled "'Women's Art in HK' Reframed: a perfromative research in progress on the potentialities of women art-makers," in the symposium 'Female Embodiment of the Visual World: Women's Art in Contemporary China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong' [...], Bowdoin College, Maine, USA. Abstract of my paper [...]
2013 (Sep) to 2016 (June) // This month, I launched a 3-year longitudinal study of how "Discovery" happens in the context of the Bachelor of Arts in Creative Media in the new 4-year university system. The study includes, among other factual research, an experimental documentary work that involves following 7 undergraduate students for 3 years. An important incentive, personally, is what exactly happens to the students in the current formulation of 'art education' in the program I am coordinating. The project is now abbreviated as the DISCOVERY PROJECT. The project is made possible with special provisions from City University of Hong Kong's Provost's Office, and is one of five projects with similar general objectives.
Aug
2013 / Aug 9-18 // Voices Seen, Images Heard will be shown at La Rada space for contemporary art in Locarno in the Off Side event curated by Franco Marinotti, Director of Fine Arts Unternehmen, as a side event to the 2013 Film Festival Locarno. [...][event-flyer...]
World Film Locations Hong Kong(Intellect Books), which I co-edited with Kimburley Choi, is out in August. The book involves 15 contributors, covering over 30 movie locations in Hong Kong, and is alternative story to HK cinema's production history. [Intellect Books, publisher...] [University of Chicago, distributor...]
Jul
2013/ July 27-28 //Voices Seen, Images Heard will be shown at inToAsia: Time-based Art Festival 2013 - MicroCities, curated by CHEN Wei-ching, Joanne and LAI Lih-huei (Josiane) at the Queens Museum of Art, New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens NY 11368, New York, USA. Screening time: SAT. July 27, 2-5pm and SUN. July 28, 2-5pm [...][coverage in Chinese...]
2013 / July 13 // An article on the Bachelor of Arts in Creative Media and Bachelor of Arts & Science in New Media I co-authored with graduate Adam Kwan is now available on-line on RTHK's platform, in Chinese: “前卫方位：才艺胸襟与思维兼重“ [...]
Jun
2013 / Jun 28 (Fri) // I will be moderating a Roundtable, titled 'Paralle, Alternative, or Historically Particular? - Roundtable on Archiving & Historiicising Artist-run Spaces', at Asia Art Archive. [...]
May
2013 / May 24 (Fri) // I will be speaker in Asia Art Archive's talk series curated for Art Basel Hong Kong 2013, titled 'Unpacking the Global - the Document', together with Abbas Kiarostami (Tehran) and Shooshie Sulaiman (Kuala Lumpur), moderated by Hammad Nasar, Head of Research and Programmes, Asia Art Archive / 5:00-6:30pm / N106-108, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Expo Drive, Wanchai, Hong Kong [...] To watch video documentation, HERE.| or HERE. A review of the seminar [by Josef Bares]
2013 / May 19 // I will be part of a conversation series at Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 [...] - pre-exhibition Conversations Kick-off: 'Homegrown Talents' / 3:00-4:30pm, Asia Society Hong Kong Centre, 9 Justice Drive, Admiralty, Hong Kong; in conversation: Chow Chun-fai, Linda Lai, Ho Sin-tung, Adrian Wong, Pauline J. Yao (moderator) [...] / full video documentation: HERE | on YouTube
2013 / May 10-13 //Voices Seen, Images Heard will be shown at 'Urbanity – Artist's Film Festival 2013 (3rd edition)' as part of Cutlog-New York 2013. The four-day event, coinciding with Frieze Art Fair NY, and will take place in one of Manhattan’s most vibrant and creative areas, the Lower East Side, occupying The Clemente at 107 Suffolk Street, between Rivington and Delancey Streets, New York City. My work will be part of EMPTY HAPPINESS, a special program curated by Ellen Chang with works concerned with the configuration, transfiguration and re-configuration of the urban environment. Concerned pages are on p. 1 and 25 of the catalog [...]
2013 / May 08 // The second of two pieces of video documentation of my work at the 9th Shanghai Biennale (2012.10.01 - 2013.03.31) is now ready for viewing.Title of video: "57m Kilograms: Why did I make 1906-1989-2012 in Shanghai?" / Chinese title: "57百萬公斤：我為何創作《1906-1989-2012》？" [....]
Apr
2013 / Apr 30 // The first of two pieces of video documentation of my work at the 9th Shanghai Biennale (2012.10.01 - 2013.03.31) is now ready for viewing.Title of video: "Staging the load: setting up 1906-1989-2012 in Shanghai" / Chinese title: 大紅包袱高高掛：佈展《1906-1989-2012》" [..]
2013 / Apr 5 // I presented Voices Seen, Images Heard and Non-place / Other Space at the Cinema Studies Department, the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University [...]
Mar
2013 / Mar 21-23 // I have organized the 3-day workshop on Experimental Critical Theory, titled "The Social Life of Forms" hosted by the School of Creative Media (SCM), co-organised by University of California Humanities Research Institute and the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory & Criticism. [...] The workshop series was designed by Prof. David Theo Goldnberg and Prof. Ackbar Abbas. Participating guest scholars included Mette Hjort, Mirana Szeto, Gabrielle Schwab, Bliss Lim, Saree Makdisi, Kelly Gillespie, Raimi Gbadamosi, Esther Cheung, Zen Marie and Hanna Wirman. Participating scholar-artists from SCM included Linda Lai, Samson Young, Jhave David Johnston, Daniel Howe and Damien Charrieras. One session was devoted to SCM Ph.D. students' presentation coordinated by Prof. Jane Prophet.
Jan
2013 / Jan 23-24 // I will be part of the HK-Videotage artists' delegation of 4 to participate in a round table discussion plus workshop for Living As Forms: Nomadic Version at ICI (Independent Curators International) in New York City. Annoucement at ICI [round-table...]
2012
Dec
2012 / Dec 01 to Jan 27, 2013 // My video work Voices Seen, Images Heard is shown as part of the Videotage-produced Living as Forms (Normadic version) for the ICI in the Lower East side, Manhattan, New York City.
Nov
2012 / Nov 16-20 // My video workVoices Seen, Images Heard is scheduled to be screened as part of the EXiN 2012, forum for Asian experimental film and video (EXiN亚洲实验电影与录像论坛 / 第九届中国独立影像年度展) in Nanjing. **The entire festival was terminated a few days before it was about to start.
2012 / Nov 3-18 // My video work Voices Seen, Images Heard is scheduled to be screened as part of the Living As Form (Wikitopia version), 12 noon - 7pm at Videotage, Hong Kong.
2012 / Nov 2-3 // I shall be in Seoul, South Korea to present a paper titled "Documenting sentiments in ‘Hong Kong 1997’ Video Diaries: belly buttons, absent cameras, moving house, fooling around…," at Hanyang Unviersity's RICH (Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture) as part of the Everyday Coloniality (III): How Wars End - Practices of (Re-)Making States after 1945, transnational historians' workshop, funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea's WCU (World Class University) initiative. [...]
Oct
2012 / Oct 24-28 // Door Games, Window Frames: Near Drama (single-channel video version) 《景框戲門》(單窗錄像版) has been selected for screening in the "Panorama Programme" at the 23rdImpakt Festival 2012, Utrecht, the Netherlands. [...]
2012 / Oct 13-14 // I am running a workshop, 'Micro-Narratives: Invented Time & Space', for the series "IMMERSION - Art | Technology Workshops" as part of the 9th Shanghai Biennale 2012's The Academy of Reciprocal Enlightenment. Shanghai. [details...]
2012 / Oct 1 // My mixed media installation work 1906-1989-2012: Guangzhou-Hongkong-Shanghai-Anji 《1906-1989-2012∶ 广州-香港-上海-安吉》(混合媒體裝置) will open with the 9th Shanghai Biennlae 2012 上海雙年展 (2 Oct 2012 - 31 Mar 2013) as part of the Themed Exhibition, Revisit, in the main venue. I shall be in Shanghai to set up my work in the last week of September. Notes on my work on SB offical site [...] /Notes from my work archive [...]
Sep
2012 / Sep 26 - Oct 3 // I shall be in Shanghai during this week to set up my work at the 9th Shanghai Biennale 2012 which will open on Oct 1.
2012 / Aug 31, Sep 2 // My new video work Door Games, Window Frames: Near Drama (single-channel video version) 《景框戲門》(單窗錄像版) is in International Competition at EXiS2012 (Experimental Film & Video Festival in Seoul). The work will be shown as part of EX-Now 4 at 8:00pm (Aug 31) and 2:00pm (Sep 2) (Seoul time) at Cinematheque KOFA(Korean Film Archive) theater no. 2, Seoul, South Korea. This work is a video re-work of my algorithmic projection with the same title. Whereas the algorithmic version, 3-channel, is computationally generated, an automatic compilation machine on its own, the single-channel video version is a piece of video art edited and composed by me. Notes from my work archive [...]
2012 / Sep 3-7// The Induction Week I organized for the double cohort of DSE and 4-minus-1 students will be on. Details on DEC-OBTL website I am editing for the School of Creative Media [...]
Mar14 - May 24
2012 / March 14 - May 24 // With a special grant from CityU's Education & Development team (EDGE) I received with colleague Olli Leino, I have organized The Spring Program [postings...], a 2-month long artists/professionals residency program for SCM students, bring to the School 10 artists and media professionals, including Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Lee Li-shao, Teboho Edkins, Joaquin Garcia Orbea, Jean-François Rauger, Lee Hangjun, Dickson Dee, Jaroslaw Kapuscinski and Jason Nelson. [program in pdf...]
Mar
2012 / March 2 - April 29 // My video+voice improvization, One Take: Polyphony (2012 version) [watch on vimeo...] will be part of 'The 4th State of Water: from micro to macro' [...], a water installation exhibition, at the CoCA (Centre of Contemporary Art) in Torun, Poland. The show is curated by Victoria Vesna.
Feb
2012 / February 11 - March 25 // My curatorial project "Descriptions of Hearing" <聽覺摹寫>, in collaboration with Liao Chien-chiao 廖芊喬, will take place in Taipei at the Digital Art Centre Taipei (DAC) [...], supported by the Digital Art Foundation and the Cultural Bureau of the city government of Taipei. Featured Hongkong-based artists I curated inlcude Samson Young, Hector Rodriguez and Marco Demutiis. Artists curated by Liao include Chiang Chien-hsin, Wang Yu-jun, Chen Chia-hui (from Taiwan), and Linda Lai (from Hong Kong). [...] / interview by DAC posted on Youtube [...]
Jan
2012 / January 14 // The 3rd edition of "Micro-Narratives: Invented Time & Space," with 30 plus experimental video shorts installed with site-specific consideration, will take place January 14-21, on 12th floor, Foo Tak Building, Hennessy Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong. The works were developed from my course "Micro Narratives" co-taught with Cedric Maridet. The show is co-curated with final-year student Wong Chun-hoi. [...]
2012 / January 12 // My generative database cinema piece Door Games, Window Frames: Near Drama 《景框戲門》[...] will be shown in the Faculty Exhibition of the School of Creative Media as part of the celebration of the inauguration of the Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre [...].
2012 / January // I have completed a new video, another work of visual ethnography. The work has two versions, the first one, titled "Reverting Spectacles" 《回轉狀觀 。》(26m 58s long, 2011) take an ethnographic film style, whereas the second version, "Reverting Spectacles: performing space" 《回轉狀觀 。空間實活。》(22m 19s, 2012), is in the form of a video essay, responding to Guy Debord's critique of our society of the spectacle. [...] Both versions compile episodes of site-specific performances captured on camera in my video diary archives and found material from my circle of acquaintances from 2000-2011.
2011
Dec
2011 / December 11 // Voices Seen, Images Heard is shown at EXiM 2011 (Asian Experimental Video Festival in Macao 亞洲實驗影像活動) [...] as part of the program "Second-hand Material Original Works : Hong Kong Experimental Shorts" (二手料、原創片：香港實驗短片) curated by Phoebe Man [...], Macao.
2011 / December 9 // Voices Seen, Images Heard is shown in the One World Exposition (dialogues betwen Mainland and Hong Kong media artists) at Osage (Kwun Tong) which will last until January 8, 2012. As part of my dialogue with Ou Ning and Cao Fei's "San Yuan Li," [...] I also created a wall installation, 1841 – 201X / San Yuan Li – Hong Kong – Da Tang Jie – San Yuan Li [...] 《1841至201X／三元里－香港－大塘街－三元里》[...], exhibited in the same venue.
2011 / December 15 // I am in dialogue with Evans Chan in a forum session titled "Film Art and Everyday Life" during the Kowloon City Book Fair held at the Lee Shiu-kee Creative College －MaD 講座：電影藝術與生活 >> 陳耀成、黎肖嫻 （九龍城書節）// Youtube documentation of the dialogue (duration: 1'31") [...]
Nov
2011 / November 27-29 // My video work Voices Seen, Images Heard will be shown as part of the "..." in KLEX (Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film & Video Festival) 2011 [...] in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
2011 / November 12 // My video workVoices Seen, Images Heard will be shown as part of the program "Second-hand Material Original Works: Hong Kong Experimental Shorts" (《二手料原创片〉：香港实验短片) curated by Phoebe Man, for Videotage.
Oct
2011 / October 28-29 // I shall be in Seoul, South Korea from Ocober 27-30 to present a paper titled "How to be Human, Good, and Civilized: Everyday Modernity in the Crevices (a Study of Movie Ads for the 15 Lost Local Films Produced in Hong Kong 1934)," at Hanyang Unviersity's RICH (Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture) as part of the Everyday Coloniality: Migration, Ego-documents, Visuality transnational workshop, funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea's WCU (World Class University) initiative. The conference is attended by a selected group of historians from around the world. [...]
Sep
2011 / September // EXiS curator and artist LEE Hangjun [...] will show my work Non-place / Other Space in his program “Asian Experimental Cinema,” as part of his residency at <no.w.here> [...], London. The screening will take place at the Horse Hospital [...].
Jul
2011 / July 22 // I shall have a new office room with lots of windows as the School of Creative Media will be completely moved from the main campus of the City University of Hong Kong to the new Creative Media Centre designed by Daniel Libeskind off Cornwall Street. The new address will be, effective July 22, 2011:
Level 7, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, 18 Tat Hong Road, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong 香港九龍塘達康路18號，邵逸夫創意媒體中心7樓
2011 / July 16 - 31 // The portfolio of the Writing Machine Collective is part of Videotage and Interact Art's New Media Archeology (Hong Kong Edition), Part 2 at Videotage, Hong Kong.
Jun
2011 / June 25 // The Tales of Squatting Urchins (a 141-minute video work) by Terence Chan is shown at my studio FPC [...] with discussion. Terence is graduating this summer from the School of Creative Media's Critical Intermedia Laboratory (CIL). "The Tales..." is the best video among this year's graduation theses from CIL.
2011 / June 16-19 //Non-place / Other Space will be shown in London the innaugural Open City London Documentary Festival [...] as part of a screening series presented by partner festival Jihlava (Czech Republic), "Jihlava at Open City." [...]
2011 / June 13-20 // Scholar and game studies expert, Professor Espen Aarseth, author of Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature, professor at IT University of Copenhagen, is at School of Creative Media to engage with students, faculty and public [...]. I am doing a short presentation on June 13 (afternoon) to discuss the notion of gaming in my creative works, including Crypto-glyph, my book-game with Theresa Junko Mikuriay, and the idea of labyrinth in this book as well as in Non-place / Other Space.
2011 / June 6-7 // Non-place / Other Spacewill be presented and discussed by Natalie Resch in "urban style; build up a (un)fair world: The event, organized by the Afro Asiatic Institut in Graz (Austria), consists of films and discussion about development and changings in megacities . [info on the institute...]
May
2011 / May 2? - 29 // The portfolio of the Writing Machine Collective is part of Videotage and Interact Art's New Media Archeology (Hong Kong Edition) at ART HK 11 at Stand X17. Details [...]
2011 / May 5-10 // My video work Non-place / Other Space will be in 'International Competition' at the 57th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany.
Having screened this work in over 10 cities around the world and in many major festivals, I am extremely thrilled that this work finally finds its way to Oberhausen.
This should be the third time my work is in competition at Oberhausen after 2005 and 2009.
Feb
2011 / February 25-27 // 5 photographic works of mine would be presented at the Asia Top Gallery-Hotel Art Fair 2011 at Booth 418 (Jiang Art Gallery). Details of my portfolio for AHAF2011 [...] To get e-invitation to exchange for ticket, print this image [...]
2011 / February 18 // My video work Voices Seen, Images Heard will be shown as part of the "The Other: Hongkong Experimental Shorts" 別樣：香港實驗短片 program, curated by Phoebe Man, at Videotage (Cattle Depot), starting 8:00pm [...]
Jan
2011 / January 29 // I shall run a workshop titled "Generative Thinking in Contemporary Art and Creative Writing" as part of the educational program for the WMC_e4: 14:00-16:00 at the Video Shooting Studio, 2M/F, Youth Square.
2011 / January 28 // My video work Non-place / Other Space is screened at the FIFEQ 2011 - Festival international du film ethnographique du Quebec [The International Ethnographic Film Festival of Quebec] (27-29.01.2011), dedicated to the promoting of ethnographic films; organized by McGill University, Concordia University, and Universite de Montreal; Montreal, Canada. [...]
2011 / January 22-23 // A video program I curated for the Writing Machine Collective 4th edition (WMC_e4), "Video as Writing Machines," will be shown at Youth Square's Y-Studio: Screening I at 17:30-18:30, Jan 22; Screening II at 14:00-15:30, Jan 23. Details: see posting on Jan 9 on WMC website [...]
2011 / January 14-30 // Writing Machine Collective's 4th edition (WMC_e4), "Computational Thinking in Existing Art Forms," is now on until Jan 30, 2011 at Youth Square in Chaiwan. One of the 12 featured works in the physical exhibition is my work Scriptorium (with Gary Ng), a work engaging in the notion of an assembly line as a manifestation of computational thinking. final phase of preparation. In the coming two weekends, there will be 2 screenings and a series of artists' talks, keynote lectures and creative workshops. [...]
2011 / January 15-17 // "Micro Narratives: Invented Time & Space" edition 2, a show I curated, will be on at the Blue Lotus Gallery's Blue Room [...] as part of the Fontanian 2011 Open Studio series [...]. The show is a video sculpture containing almost 40 short videos by students in my course "Micro Narratives" explore the textual and spatial temporal manifestation of the city space of Hong Kong. [...]
2010
Dec
Writing Machine Collective's 4th edition of event is now in the final phase of preparation. Physical exhibition will take place Jan 13-31, 2011 at Youth Square. An open call for short videos in our 3 video programs is now on until December 27, 2010 [...]. Entry form for Video program [doc] [pdf]. Details of the exhibition [...] The Writing Machine Collective is a Hongkong-based new media art collective I founded in 2004. [...]
Nov
2010 / November 24-28 // My video work Voices Seen, Images Heard is part of a program on experimental cinema in Hong Kong in Taipei's EX!T (Experimental Media Art Festival 2010) in Taipei [...]. The Hong Kong program is curated by Phoebe Man.
2010 / November 18 // My video work Non-place / Other Space will be shown in the 'Macau & Hong Kong' program of the VAFA (Video Art For All) Festival at 6:30pm in at Casa Garden – Fundação Oriente, Macau. [...] The program will be repeated on December 4 at 6:30pm.
2010 / November 4-6 // My video work Voices Seen, Images Heard will be presented in an academic conference, "Transnational Everyday Coloniality," attended by 13 historians who concern themselves with the writing of regional history for Asia. My presentation was upon the invitation of Professor Alf Lüdtke, author of The History of Everyday Life, who also read a full paper on my work in the conference. The event is part of an on-going project of the Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea. [...]
Oct
2010 / October 26-31 // Non-place / Other Space has been chosen for International Competition by the 14th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, and will be screened in the program "Fascinations" on October 27 (16:00) at Dukla Cinema - Edison, Jihlava (an hour and half away from Prague), the Czech Republic.
2010 / October 16 // This is Hong Kong, a catalogue on the traveling showcase of 15 Hongkong video artist, curated by Alvaro Rodriguez Fominaya, has been published and launched together with 2 other publications in a reception party at Para/Site Art Space. [Eng...][Chinese...]
Oct
I have started a new account at Vimeo in additional to my YouTube page. Please visit: http://www.vimeo.com/lindalai
Sep
2010 / September 1-7 // My experimental-visual historiographic project,Voices Seen, Images Heard, will be in competition in the EX-Now program ( for international competition) at the Experimental Film & Video Festival in Seoul (EXiS 2010). Info page on my work here [...]
Jul
2010 / July 17 // I would be presenting my experimental-visual historiographic project,Voices Seen, Images Heard, in Shanghai's Xindanwei 新单位 3:00-6:00pm together with Hector Rodriguez, who will show his computational work-in-progress, "Flowpoints". Posting for our presentation [...] Brief of my presentation in pdf [...]
Jun
2010 / June 26 // An extended version of my paper at Crossroads 2010, "What is in a talking head? - narrated selves and event structures, a phenomenological view on glocal connectivities," will be presented with a broader selection of clips at FPC (the Floating Projects Collective) at 2:30-4:00pm [details...]
2010 / June 18 // I have organized the panel "What's in a Talking Head? - a visual ethnography on performativity, reflexivity & interactionism" with two presentations, one by my colleagues Dr. Kimburley Choi, and other by me, with Prof. Eva Man as chair and discussant, at the Crossroads 2010 (Society for Cultural Studies Conference), June 18-21, 2010 at Lingnan University. [details of our panel...- see panel 4.22]
May
2010 / May 22 // The grand opening party of FPC (the Floating Projects Collective) is scheduled to take place on May 22 at our studio in Wanchai, with an exhibition on works-in-progress on visual ethnography, titled "Archiving Fingers, Hands, Faces and Anonymities" [details...]
2010 / May 6-8 // Non-place / Other Space will be screened as part of the "Contemplating Landscape" program in the First Annual Takoma Park-Silver Spring Experimental Film Festival, at the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.[film selection...]
Apr
2010 / April 29 //Voices Seen, Images Heard will be in competition at the The 37th Athens International Film & Video Festival [...] (April 23-29, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA). This work will be screened in the programme called "Avant Travel" together with 5 other works from around the world on Thursday, April 29, 3:00 pm at the Athena Cinema
2010 / April 18 // "ART NOTES" on FPC website is growing!!! In a week's time after its launching, we've already got three entries.
2010 / April 12 // The 1st entry of "ART NOTES" was posted, a short piece I wrote on a program that I participated in the 12th IWFFiS [...]. This is a platform devoted to free writing on moving image, contemporary art, cultural events, sound and music, literature and media/art theories. "ART NOTES" is one of the few focus areas I am developing for FPC (the Floating Projects Collective). We welcome young, emerging as well as mature writers to share the same platform. We promote writing methods and styles that need not be confined to the binary opposites of journalistic-versus-academic genre division in art review. Every writer should have her/his own voice and sensibilities, mobilizing her/his own cognitive and perceptual resources. Our plan is that the accumulation of writings over time should lead to regular, purposeful seminars and workshops to discuss what it means by art-writing and what to do with it.
2010 / April 8-13 // I shall be out of town for the International Women's Film Festival in Seoul (12th IWFFiS, Apr 8-15, Seoul, South Korea) for my latest experimental video work Voices Seen, Images Heard (completed 10.2009; part 1 of video cycle "Meditations on a Minor History,"a work in progress) in two screenings in the "Transmediascape" session. "Transmediascape introduces films crossing over different media and forms, and exploring innovative audio-visual experiment and women’s cinematic space apart from a traditional idea of cinema." [work info on IWFFIS site...] [official site of IWFFIS...]
2010 / March 24 + April 3-4 // I have organized three open events to have well known directors at the Hong Kong International Film Festival meet with SCM students on campus. Experimental filmmaker Lewis Klahr (US), best known for his cut-out collage animation (March 24) and animation director Bill Plympton (April 4) will meet the audience showing their work with an Q-&-A interview. Theo Angelopoulos (April 3 - 10:30am), world-class art-cinema master (best known for Landscape in the Mist), will appear in a public interview discussing his film method accompanies by excerpts from his repertoire. These events are all open to the general public. [details of Plympton and Klahr's seminar...] [details on Angelopoulos' session ...]
Mar
2010 / March 26 (7:45 pm / HK Science Museum Lecture Hall) + April 2 (12:30pm / HK Arts Centre Agnes b. CINEMA!) // After traveling with "This is Hong Kong" in 12 cities and its festival appearance at the Experimental Film & Video Festival in Seoul (Sep 2009), Non-place / Other Space will finally be screened in Hong Kong. This work is now one of the 20 works from around the world selected for the "Short Film Competition Program" [...] at the 34th International Hong Kong Film Festival [...]. I shall appear at the "Meet the Audience" session for the April 2 screening.
2010 / March 18-22 // An Artist-in-Residence program will take place in this period to enhance student learning. My collegue Ip Yuk-yiu has invited Golan Levin, Zachary Lieberman and Julien Maire to do a workshop on openFrameworks (an open source software for interactive media) and a forum titled "art.ware – Customizing New Media." I have invited digital visual artist Dr. Craig Smith to do a whole-day workshop on the status of photography in digital culture and fieldwork on building an archive, plus a lecture in which he theorizes interactivity as a system of relational procedures and a tool. [announcements for artists-in-residence program...][photo documentation for Craig Smith's workshop+lecture...][collective photo project created in Smith's workshop...]
2010 / March 6 (1:00-3:00pm) // I did a 3-hour lecture on visual ethnography, titled "Autoethnography: experimental ethnography / a hybrid creative practice" to a group of interested artists. This is the first "Open House" FPC (Floating Projects Collective) event. [...]
2010 / March 1-31 // Non-place / Other Space as part of "This is Hong Kong" has reached its final stop at Kunsthalle Wien (Austria). [...]
Feb
2010 / Feb 1 // The 12-month event series (Sep 2008-Aug 2009) at Experimenta (Hollywood Road, Central) has proved to be a fruitful and instructive experiment for myself on alternative community models on art and what it takes to develop art with emerging artists. Starting February 1, I will continue my experiment in exploring dynamic community and artmaking with a new space I founded called The Floating Projects Collective (FPC 句點). Core founding members of the group include Jolene Mok, Lilian Fu and Cheung Yu-tsz, all graduates of the School of Creative Media's Critical Intermedia Laboratory. We have officially started our studio activities on Feb 1 in our space in Wanchai. Watch out for our grand opening party some time in late April 2010. Our tentative web-site is here [...].
Jan
2010 / Jan 27-Feb 4 // "Lithium Carbon," a media art exhibition I produced to showcase student works in the School of Creative Media's Critical Intermedia Laboratory (CIL). CIL is one of the three core areas in the School's BA in Creative Media with an emphasis on integrating media art practices with cultural critique, contemporary art issues and computational thinking. "Lithium Carbon" is the 2nd edition of CIL Creative Bulletin, a regular 'magazine' in the form of an art event. Venue: Art Commune, the Cattle Depot, Hong Kong. Official web-site [...] / To download full catalogue [...]
2010 / Jan 15-Mar 28 // Non-place / Other Space will be screened as part of "This is Hong Kong" at Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan.[image][press coverage] After successfully being shown in LOOP Festival in Barcelona (Spain), the programme has made its trip to LOOP Alternative Space in Seoul (Korea), Hamburg's Subvision Festival, EastSide Projects (Birmingham) and IFA Gallery (Berlin). This international tour will conclude in Kunsthalle Wien (Austria) in March 2010.
2009
Oct-Nov
2009 / September-October // On-line citations of my video work. Scholarly discussion of my video works (experimental visual ethnography) by Cultural Studies scholar Dr. Kimburley W.Y. Choi, specifically, "Non-place / Other Space" (2009) and "Trespassing World Cities" (2005)
2009 / October 23 // Non-place / Other Space will be screened as part of "This is Hong Kong" at the Map Office (Sheung Wan), a program for October Contemporary (2-31.10.2009).
2009 / Sep 29-Nov 8 // Experimental video Non-place / Other Space exhibited as part of "This is Hong Kong" at East Side Projects Birmingham's "Abstract Cabinet Show" (England)
Aug-Sep
2009 / September 14 (2:30-4:45pm) // Experimental video Non-place / Other Space screened as part of "Women & Alternative," Asia Forum-Hongkong, EXiS 2009 (Sep 10-16), Experimental Film/Video Festival in Seoul, Seoul, South Korea.
2009 / August-September // Experimental video Non-place / Other Space" exhibited as part of "This is Hong Kong" for SUBVISION, at the Academy of Fine Arts, Kunstverein and Diechtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany.
Jun-Jul
2009 / June 4 - August 24 // Experimental video Non-place / Other Space exhibited as part of "This is Hong Kong" at Alternative Space Loop, Loop Media Center, Seoul, South Korea.
May
2009 / May 28-30 // Experimental video Non-place / Other Space (completed 3.2009) shown in 3 screenings as part of "This is Hong Kong," a 15-artist video art showcase at Asia Casa, Barcelona for LOOP '09 Video Art Festival & Fair, Spain. I am also doing a 30-minute introductory talk to an audience of curators and film/video-makers from around the world at the Asia Casa's opening before its cocktail reception.
2009 / May 1 // Experimental documentary Shanghai Saga: Other Skies, Other Lands (completed 1.2009) is world primiered in International Competition at Oberhausen's International Short Fillm Festival, Oberhausen, Germany / 2 screenings with a meet-the-audience session / [view] /
2008
Dec
2008 / December 9-11 // Featured in "NønSpace: The elusive haze of space/place of Hong Kong," a filmic artwork and installation by Nicolas Sauret and Ashley Wong presented at Goldsmiths University of London, London, U.K.... [link...]
NønSpace is a work that attempts to probe at the often puzzling and elusive space of Hong Kong. Through its unique history, geography and politics, Hong Kong has sprouted from a small Chinese fishing village to a globalized financial city. From British influence of Western capitalism to a return to a long lost Chinese reality, Hong Kong has formed into a place of in-betweenness. Through interwoven voice interviews with artists, academics, architects, NønSpace approaches notions of space to reveal aspects of a city and culture that is difficult (and perhaps impossible) to underpin.
<><><><><><><><> Featuring interviews with:
Linda LAI (professor, City University)
Andrew LAM, (director Museum of Site)
Kit LAM (sociologist, Chinese University)
Warren LEUNG (independent artist)
Map Office (Laurent Gutierrez & Valérie Portefaix, artists/academics)
Alvin YIP (architect, Poly University)
****
May
2008 / May 16 - July 20 // I have organized 6 digital generative works by various artists to feature the Writing Machine Collective in the HK Museum of Arts' "Digitalogue". Here is an interview by the Digitalogue organizers in which I talked about the creative philosphy and prime objectives of the Writing Machine Collective [view video on Youtube......] Artists I have curated in this component: Hector Rodriguez [...], Mike Wong [...], Justin Wong (and team) [...], Morgan Wong + Yvonne Lau [...], and Bryan Chung [...].
