Videotage is a leading non-profit organization in Hong Kong focusing on the presentation, promotion, production and preservation of video and media art, serving artists in the expanding technological art and culture network. Since 1986, Videotage has developed itself from an umbrella for media artists, to a network of media art and culture for cross-disciplinary cultural productions, and platform to facilitate international exchange.
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Wandering Scholars – Sexuality and Dimsum
Dates:
Thu May 29, 2014 13:00 - Thu May 29, 2014
About Project
Wandering Scholars is an interdisciplinary symposium about contemporary culture, art, media and scholarship that focuses on acts of “walking” and “wandering” as strategies of thought and expression. It will consider the importance of processes of walking, elements of distraction, chaos, non-productivity, non-linearity and “failure”, as well as the fascination of a peripatetic way of disseminating knowledge. Whether we are making solitary journeys or moving in groups, we are constantly drifting and perceiving with five senses, or using technological devices, while sensing the rhythms and languages constituted by spaces, times and people. The symposium invites artists, scholars and audiences to develop participatory modes of education as acts of walking.
Details: http://www.wanderingscholars.com.hk/
About Event - Sexuality and Dimsum
Date: 29 May 2014, 1pm-5pm
Journeys into sex art and knowledge will be shown and discussed at a “Long Table”**.
At 1pm the event will open with an appetizer and sparkling beverage. Next we will witness a performance art piece by Tobaron Waxman entitled The 71st Face . It is an cappella endurance performance for the transsexual voice that will
resonate with the cattle depot’s architecture. More specifically he will sing songs in Yiddish, Hebrew and Aramaic about death and transformation.
At 2:30 pm there will be an intermission around the table with informal table chat and Dimsum.
At 3:15 pm the floor goes to filmmaker Fan Popo who will present a talk and movie segments entitled Queer Mobility and Home Sickness. As he describes:” My ’identity trouble’ is not merely limited to sexuality; it is also about me as a filmmaker, a curator, an activist, a writer (sometimes). It is cool to engage in a variety of tasks within multiple fields, but this can be exhausting as well; traveling around brings me as much excitement as homesickness.
The program will conclude at 5pm with a dialogue by Nguyen Hoang Tang and Dredge Kang over a refreshing dessert.
** The Long Table format, invented by performer/professor Lois Weaver, is a means of generating open discussion about a specified topic, using a stylized environment and participation protocol to turn ordinary conversation into a performance. ‘The Long Table’ experiments with participation and public engagement by re-appropriating a dinner table atmosphere as a public forum and encouraging informal conversation on serious topics.
Wandering Scholars is an interdisciplinary symposium about contemporary culture, art, media and scholarship that focuses on acts of “walking” and “wandering” as strategies of thought and expression. It will consider the importance of processes of walking, elements of distraction, chaos, non-productivity, non-linearity and “failure”, as well as the fascination of a peripatetic way of disseminating knowledge. Whether we are making solitary journeys or moving in groups, we are constantly drifting and perceiving with five senses, or using technological devices, while sensing the rhythms and languages constituted by spaces, times and people. The symposium invites artists, scholars and audiences to develop participatory modes of education as acts of walking.
Details: http://www.wanderingscholars.com.hk/
About Event - Sexuality and Dimsum
Date: 29 May 2014, 1pm-5pm
Journeys into sex art and knowledge will be shown and discussed at a “Long Table”**.
At 1pm the event will open with an appetizer and sparkling beverage. Next we will witness a performance art piece by Tobaron Waxman entitled The 71st Face . It is an cappella endurance performance for the transsexual voice that will
resonate with the cattle depot’s architecture. More specifically he will sing songs in Yiddish, Hebrew and Aramaic about death and transformation.
At 2:30 pm there will be an intermission around the table with informal table chat and Dimsum.
At 3:15 pm the floor goes to filmmaker Fan Popo who will present a talk and movie segments entitled Queer Mobility and Home Sickness. As he describes:” My ’identity trouble’ is not merely limited to sexuality; it is also about me as a filmmaker, a curator, an activist, a writer (sometimes). It is cool to engage in a variety of tasks within multiple fields, but this can be exhausting as well; traveling around brings me as much excitement as homesickness.
The program will conclude at 5pm with a dialogue by Nguyen Hoang Tang and Dredge Kang over a refreshing dessert.
** The Long Table format, invented by performer/professor Lois Weaver, is a means of generating open discussion about a specified topic, using a stylized environment and participation protocol to turn ordinary conversation into a performance. ‘The Long Table’ experiments with participation and public engagement by re-appropriating a dinner table atmosphere as a public forum and encouraging informal conversation on serious topics.
Papay Gyro Nights Art Festival: Hong Kong
Dates:
Fri Apr 04, 2014 14:00 - Fri Apr 18, 2014
Location:
Kowloon,
China
PAPAY GYRO NIGHTS ART FESTIVAL 2014 (Hong Kong)
4th – 18th April
Video Art, Experimental Films and Music from the extreme remoteness of Papa Westray
Papay Gyro Nights Art Festival 2014: Hong Kong, one of the city’s most monumental events of media and contemporary art, is making its third annual return next month. Originated in a remote Scottish island named Papa Westray, Papay Gyro Nights is an annual celebration that reflects on the folktale, heritage, ritual and ancient tradition, interpreted by new media art. Riding along this theme, this year’s Hong Kong edition will comprise a diverse range of activities, including curators talks, video art exhibitions, experimental film screenings, and live performances delivered by more than 10 internationally renowned artists.
The Hong Kong edition of the festival is co-organized by Videotage and Papay Gyro Nights Art Festival (Orkney), in collaboration with NOVA (Northern Video Art Network), 700IS (Iceland), SKOGUL GONDUL (Norway) and FixC (Finland).
For programme details, please visit: http://videotage.org.hk/project/papay-gyro-night-festival-2014/
Inquiry: +852 2573 1869/ info@videotage.org.hk
Scoutbots Hackathon Workshop
Dates:
Sun Feb 16, 2014 10:00 - Sun Feb 16, 2014
Location:
Hong Kong,
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China
Cesar Harada teaches at Scoutbots Hackathon
The ocean covers more than 70% of our planet, they are where all life comes from and are the future of our food, energy, transport, communication and security. But the oceans are dying : Overfishing, acidification, plastic pollution, radioactive leaks, oil spills… We need better, more reliable and affordable sailing robots. Japanese-French Inventor Cesar Harada will also introduce you to Protei, the Open Hardware Shape Shifting sailing robot, and more.
Come to learn, design and make your own sailing robot!
We will teach you the basics of maritime architecture, we help you design your own remote control boat, build and sail it in the water, all in one day!
1. Learn the basic of naval architecture
2. Design and build your own sailing robot!
3. Sail it in the Kwun Tong Ferry pier waters !
Details
https://www.facebook.com/events/615138761892851/
The ocean covers more than 70% of our planet, they are where all life comes from and are the future of our food, energy, transport, communication and security. But the oceans are dying : Overfishing, acidification, plastic pollution, radioactive leaks, oil spills… We need better, more reliable and affordable sailing robots. Japanese-French Inventor Cesar Harada will also introduce you to Protei, the Open Hardware Shape Shifting sailing robot, and more.
Come to learn, design and make your own sailing robot!
We will teach you the basics of maritime architecture, we help you design your own remote control boat, build and sail it in the water, all in one day!
1. Learn the basic of naval architecture
2. Design and build your own sailing robot!
3. Sail it in the Kwun Tong Ferry pier waters !
Details
https://www.facebook.com/events/615138761892851/
Dotmov Festival 2013 - Hong Kong Station
Dates:
Thu Feb 20, 2014 20:00 - Thu Feb 20, 2014
Location:
Hong Kong,
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China
Videotage and K11 Art Foundation proudly co-present the DOTMOV Festival 2013 - Hong Kong Station. DOTMOV is a digital film festival organized by a Japanese online magazine "SHIFT", aiming to discover unknown talented creators and provide an opportunity to showcase their works. There were a total of 206 works from 18 countries this year, and the best 20 works selected by guest judges will be featured in this screening. This year's festival will take place in several cities in Japan and overseas from November 2013 throughout 2014.
Online Reservation http://goo.gl/sQnrXT
Details http://goo.gl/7sukGK
Online Reservation http://goo.gl/sQnrXT
Details http://goo.gl/7sukGK
VIDEOTAGE FUSE RESIDENCE PROGRAM ﹣ KENNY WONG'S INSTALLATION "SQUINT"
Dates:
Sat Jan 04, 2014 12:00 - Fri Jan 31, 2014
Location:
Kowloon,
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China
Videotage is pleased to present the exhibition Squint by the FUSE resident Kenny Wong from January 4th to 31st. Squint is a kinetic light installation consisting of 50 mirrors, inspired by Wong’s curious observation of the sunlight bouncing around in our artificial habitat. Moving through the space and at times capturing the flickers, the audience is guaranteed a playful exploration of the nature of light.
Squint draws from various daily experiences in its abstraction and incites the audience to expand their interpretation of lights and perceived imagination into a non-linear experience. Everyday people are dynamically moving around in the city, sunlight reflects and flickers even when it is indirect and hidden behind objects. As we move, we constantly experience the shift of light intensity, visual patterns and textures. These varieties of light form inspire Wong to explore the potential of light textures, and to select and sort out the combined complexity in urban spaces. In the exhibition space, the mirrors track and reflect lights on the audience’s face with composed patterns of movements. It extends the generated perception by focusing on how lights pass across our visual senses physically, and combines with our perception of images through flickering.
EXTENDED EVENTS
Audiovisual Performance
7:15pm – 8:30pm, 18 Jan 2014 (Saturday)
Sound Artist Dennis Wong aka Sin:Ned will cross over with Kenny’s installation, depicting the sound of Kowloon City amid the flickering of mirrors. Dennis collected 13 sound tracks on 13 old streets in Ma Tau Kok. In the performance, Dennis will interpret the sound of “13 Street” with experimental and electronic process, and orchestrate them with the installation. Mingling in the light and space, the audience is going to hear the humming of little stories, a song about the uncertain future of an abandoned glory age, or nothing but a pale and rootless nostalgia?
Workshop I
3pm-5pm, 11 January, 2014 (Saturday)
Sound artist Dennis Wong will guide the participants to make music instrument by using second hand electronic components. By re-cycling the abandoned second hand components, the participants’ will not only be able to enjoy the creative process but to play music together with Dennis at the end of the workshop.
Workshop II
2pm-5pm, 18 January, 2014 (Saturday)
The participants will create an artistic sound device by using second-hand electronic components at the workshop hosted by the multi-media artist Kenny Wong. Through the workshop, the participants will understand more about what is multi-media art and its creative process, as well how to create an art piece from a green approach.
*RSVP: email info@videotage.org.hk / call 2573-1869
ABOUT ARTISTS
Kenny WONG
Kenny Wong Chi-Chuen (http://kennywong.co/) is a Hong Kong media artist. He received his Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Creative Media from City University of Hong Kong in 2011.Wong puts emphasis on art and multi-discipline research to express the delicate relationship between daily experiences and perceptual stimulations. Wong’s interests include exploring visual patterns, alternative perceptual states, sound textures and presenting work of art by creating new experience for audience as the form of interaction. Wong’s recent neuroscience-art work “10Hz” received the Gold Award at the 16th Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards and was exhibited in various exhibitions. His video work “Human Body” has been exhibited across Hong Kong and Korea. Furthermore, as a collaborating artist, multimedia designer, mechanical engineer/designer and art researcher, Wong actively collaborates with other media artists, sound artists and theater performers.
Dennis WONG aka Sin:Ned
Improviser, experimentalist and noise practitioner from Hong Kong. Advocator of sonic mysticism for freedom against the system in chaos and errors. Co-founder of Re-Records (www.re-records.com) and advisor of soundpocket (www.soundpocket.org.hk). Founding member of No One Pulse and After Doom. Currently running the live performance series NOISE to SIGNAL. Being a veteran writer of the legendary Hong Kong alternative music magazine MCB (Music Colony Bi-Weekly), his writings had influenced a wide spectrum of experimental musicians and listeners in Hong Kong and China. As a sound improviser, he has offered performance and creative work for concert, sound installation, workshop, audio-visual and theatrical performance.
Squint draws from various daily experiences in its abstraction and incites the audience to expand their interpretation of lights and perceived imagination into a non-linear experience. Everyday people are dynamically moving around in the city, sunlight reflects and flickers even when it is indirect and hidden behind objects. As we move, we constantly experience the shift of light intensity, visual patterns and textures. These varieties of light form inspire Wong to explore the potential of light textures, and to select and sort out the combined complexity in urban spaces. In the exhibition space, the mirrors track and reflect lights on the audience’s face with composed patterns of movements. It extends the generated perception by focusing on how lights pass across our visual senses physically, and combines with our perception of images through flickering.
EXTENDED EVENTS
Audiovisual Performance
7:15pm – 8:30pm, 18 Jan 2014 (Saturday)
Sound Artist Dennis Wong aka Sin:Ned will cross over with Kenny’s installation, depicting the sound of Kowloon City amid the flickering of mirrors. Dennis collected 13 sound tracks on 13 old streets in Ma Tau Kok. In the performance, Dennis will interpret the sound of “13 Street” with experimental and electronic process, and orchestrate them with the installation. Mingling in the light and space, the audience is going to hear the humming of little stories, a song about the uncertain future of an abandoned glory age, or nothing but a pale and rootless nostalgia?
Workshop I
3pm-5pm, 11 January, 2014 (Saturday)
Sound artist Dennis Wong will guide the participants to make music instrument by using second hand electronic components. By re-cycling the abandoned second hand components, the participants’ will not only be able to enjoy the creative process but to play music together with Dennis at the end of the workshop.
Workshop II
2pm-5pm, 18 January, 2014 (Saturday)
The participants will create an artistic sound device by using second-hand electronic components at the workshop hosted by the multi-media artist Kenny Wong. Through the workshop, the participants will understand more about what is multi-media art and its creative process, as well how to create an art piece from a green approach.
*RSVP: email info@videotage.org.hk / call 2573-1869
ABOUT ARTISTS
Kenny WONG
Kenny Wong Chi-Chuen (http://kennywong.co/) is a Hong Kong media artist. He received his Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Creative Media from City University of Hong Kong in 2011.Wong puts emphasis on art and multi-discipline research to express the delicate relationship between daily experiences and perceptual stimulations. Wong’s interests include exploring visual patterns, alternative perceptual states, sound textures and presenting work of art by creating new experience for audience as the form of interaction. Wong’s recent neuroscience-art work “10Hz” received the Gold Award at the 16th Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards and was exhibited in various exhibitions. His video work “Human Body” has been exhibited across Hong Kong and Korea. Furthermore, as a collaborating artist, multimedia designer, mechanical engineer/designer and art researcher, Wong actively collaborates with other media artists, sound artists and theater performers.
Dennis WONG aka Sin:Ned
Improviser, experimentalist and noise practitioner from Hong Kong. Advocator of sonic mysticism for freedom against the system in chaos and errors. Co-founder of Re-Records (www.re-records.com) and advisor of soundpocket (www.soundpocket.org.hk). Founding member of No One Pulse and After Doom. Currently running the live performance series NOISE to SIGNAL. Being a veteran writer of the legendary Hong Kong alternative music magazine MCB (Music Colony Bi-Weekly), his writings had influenced a wide spectrum of experimental musicians and listeners in Hong Kong and China. As a sound improviser, he has offered performance and creative work for concert, sound installation, workshop, audio-visual and theatrical performance.