Exhibition
CINEMA 2.0 Media Arts Exhibition: Acrylic Dreams
6/3 (Wed) - 20/3 (Wed) | 12nn - 8pm | Pao Galleries | Free Admission | Opening on 6/3 (Wed) 6:30pm
Our ancestors created myths in quest of the origin and meaning of life, and stories of gods originates from and reflects that of human beings. Myths were created for men. Likewise, cinema is perhaps the modern vehicle for myths, explaining and inspiring our quest for where life comes from and what life means. But with science and technology ripping off the mysteries of life in future, what will myths become? Acrylic Dreams, with works by four artists, creates a dream-like realm that explore, with different sensibilities and aesthetics, what myth is in this future – a future in which myth are for humans as much as they are for other products of science and technology like machines, computers, AI, and so forth.
 
Curator:
Ip Yuk-yiu
 
Featured Artists:
::vtol:: (Russia)
UJINO (Japan)
Akihiko Taniguchi (Japan)
David OReilly (Ireland)
Supported By
Curated By
Art Direction and Spatial Design
Technical Support
In Collaboration With
Oil (2014)
::vtol::
Russia
The main idea of this project is to present exhibition visitors with the chance to destroy any object that might happen to be with them, in order to transform it into a unique sound composition...
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Umbilical Digital (2018)
::vtol::
Russia
Umbilical Digital project is a kind of farm where special algorithm that runs on arduino board “cares about” digital nurslings – Japanese Tamagotchi toys...
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Lives in Japan (2018)
UJINO
Japan
Lives in Japan displays a 6-channel video installation showing footages of various electrical home appliances, as well as remodelled electric guitars, ...
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Radio Block Square (2019)
UJINO
Japan
Radio Block Square, assembled exclusively for the exhibition, receives live radio wave signals from multiple locations in Hong Kong, ...
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Something Like Me / About Seeing Things (2016)
Akihiko Taniguchi
Japan
This is an interactive essay / poem about the “seeing” and “identity” in new visual media age, especially 3D scanning.
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Everything (2017)
David OReilly
Ireland
Everything is an interactive experience where everything you see is a thing you can be, from animals to planets to galaxies and beyond...
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Eye of the Dream (2018)
David OReilly
Ireland
Eye of the Dream is an immersive audio-visual experience for domes and installation settings...
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16/3 (Sat) | 5pm | Curator Guided Tour and Artist Sharing
Curator Ip Yuk-yiu will lead the guided tour and share with visitors his curatorial concepts. ::vtol:: from Russia will also be present to talk about his works.
The 24th ifva Awards
Media Art Category Finalist Exhibition
Utilising new LCD screens or old CRT monitors, or relying on technologies such as slit-scan photography, VR and magnetic mechanisms, or touching on communications channels from newspapers to emails, ten pieces of works explore the relationships among humans, space, and environment. Familiar objects and subjects are attributed unfamiliar perspectives.
6/3 (Wed) - 20/3 (Wed) | 12nn – 8pm | Pao Galleries | Free Admission | Exhibition opening and Media Art Category Awards Presentation at 6:30pm on 6/3
Between Happening
Carla Chan
(Hong Kong)
Between Happening is a kinetic, time-based installation, consisting of a framed screenprint and a hidden custom-built magnetic mechanism...
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codenamehk: shitennou
Ho Him-shun
(Hong Kong)
Four separate digital screens show the fragmented memories of Hong Kong pop culture in the 1990s. Inspired by the glitch effect caused by misplacing the different connectors of old CRT TVs,...
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Crosswalkers
Siu Wai-hang
(Hong Kong)
Space is filled and people are bustling. We rush and get insensitive to the outer. A unique way of slit- scan photography may convert this particular life into another visual explanation...
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Eventually, Obsolete
Leung Mong-sum Joseph
(Hong Kong)
Eventually, Obsolete is a body of work consisting of seven individual pieces of photographs and photographic installation surrounding an old CRT monitor manufactured in the year of 2000.
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Falling Flowers
Tse Chun-sing
(Hong Kong)
The artwork turns Hong Kong newspapers into flowers and let them fall from above. Things in the city are getting ridiculous and we cannot even deal with them,...
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HeartfeltSPAM
Katsuki Nogami
(Japan)
I asked a female friend to rewrite spam emails with pen and paper because of the strangeness of these funny messages created by bots...
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That • This
Hu Ching-chuan
(Taiwan)
This artwork puts the scenes scanned at different times and in various places on reconstructed spatial coordinates. The talking voices are the daily conversations in Burmese between my mother and...
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The Way We Are
Wong Pak-hang
(Hong Kong)
I live in a place where new constructions appear uphill and old buildings downhill are demolished, and newcomers move in while old dwellers are relocated. I find life fluid and full of changes that you never know if...
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Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Fung Sung-yuen
(Hong Kong)
In this digital age of information explosion, ubiquitous non-linear media penetrates urban people's life experiences. Tomorrow and Tomorrow is a TV-matrix installation,...
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Witness
Tsai Tsung-hsun
(Taiwan)
A driving scene of waiting for lights or events is being restored, by filming a man-made scene with models on a dashboard camera. Images on these cameras are often...
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