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NEWS (since May 2008)
2012
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, South Korea.
2011 / November 12 // My video work "Voices 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 Space" will 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 [...]
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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. [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.
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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 "Voice 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
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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...]
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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.
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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 [...].
