(11/2/2013) Microwave Festival website The yearly Microwave Int’l New Media Arts Festival kicked off with a keynote conference that took place at the Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre of CityU. The overall theme of the festival was related to space travel and that was also the central theme of the presentations.
Category: Lecture/Performance/Event
_Writing about, Asia, Hong Kong, Lecture/Performance/Event
CityU Creative Media Colloquium: Lyota Yagi + Takehiro Iikawa performance & Artist Talk
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(10/29/2013) Creative Media Colloquium website Two Japanese artists came to CityU for an artist talk and performance in relation to their exhibition opening the same week. The theme of the exhibition, as well as of the talk was ‘Time’. Lyota approaches the topic mainly from the angle of physical media used to store music –…
_Writing about, Asia, Hong Kong, Lecture/Performance/Event
CityU Creative Media Colloquium: Satoru Higa + Suzueri concert
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(10/11/2013) Creative Media Colloquium website In a concert at the CityU SCM, Suzueri played piano and some sound effects while Satoru Higa took care of the visual part (projection). The patches on the projection were doubling as musical instruments as well as visuals – that was the most interesting feature. In the first track, this…
_Writing about, Asia, Hong Kong, Lecture/Performance/Event
CityU Creative Media Colloquium: Tak Cheong Lane artist talk
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(10/8/2013) Tak Cheong Lane FB An event of a different kind, this was an artist talk in a series of events organized at the Run Run Shaw Creative Media Center (CMC) of City University of Hong Kong (CityU). Tak Cheong Lane is a group of artists/activists, more activists than artists. They were at the core…
_Writing about, Asia, Hong Kong, Lecture/Performance/Event
Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 Asia Art Archive talks: Wang Guanle + Seher Shah + Byron Kim, Linda Lai + Shooshie Sulaiman + Abbas Kiarostami, Vivan Sundaram solo
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As last year during Art Hong Kong, Asia Art Archive organized a series panel talks adding to the fair’s program. Compared to last year, the number of lectures has been reduced I guess this is given the fact that Art ‘Basel’ Hong Kong now introduced their ‘own’ series of talks. I did not have time…
_Writing about, Berlin, Europe, Exhibitions, Germany, Lecture/Performance/Event
transmediale 2013 BWPWAP
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Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, January 29 – February 3, 2013 Transmediale (TM) is an very ‘old’ new media art festival in Berlin, which is running more than 25 years. Originally conceived as a warm-up week for the Berlinale film festival (which takes place the following week), it developed into a separate event touching…
_Writing about, Asia, Lecture/Performance/Event, Seoul, South Korea
19 Minute Performance Relay at Seogyo Art Space
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Seogyo Art Space, Hongdae, Seoul, http://eng.seoulartspace.or.kr/space_seogyo/introduce.asp December 28, 2012, 18:30 Seogyo Art Space is located in Hongdae area of Seoul, close to Hongik university. On December 28th an art performance relay took place there, and as I was in Seoul and a friend invited me, I decided to give it a try and get a…
_Writing about, Asia, China, Lecture/Performance/Event, Shanghai
Raumlaborberlin “Acting in Public”
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Presentation at Goethe Institute Shanghai, July 5, 2012 Raumlabor, an experimental architecture studio from Berlin has been selected to participate in the Shanghai Biennale 2012. On this occasion, two of its members, Benjamin Förster-Baldenius und Florian Stirnemann, came toShanghai. In the presentation they mostly showed their previous projects. They started off by pointing out some…
_Writing about, Asia, Hong Kong, Lecture/Performance/Event
Backroom conversations at ART HK 2012
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Okwui Enwezor, June Yap, Gayatri Sindha, Hans-Ulrich Olbrist, Tam Wai Ping 譚偉平, Cao Fei 曹斐, Chen Chie-jen 陳界仁 Backroom conversations are a series of lectures organized by the Asia Art Archive on the occasion of the ART HK art fair. Same as the art fair, they took place at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition…
_Writing about, Asia, China, Hong Kong, Lecture/Performance/Event
Para/site art space Hong Kong: rites, thoughts, notes, sparks, swings, strikes, a hong kong spring. Forms of Criticism.
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April 14, 2012, McAulay Studio, Hong Kong Arts Centre The new ‘show’ at Para/site art space in Hong Kong takes the form of a series of lectures and discussion roundtables during three April weekends. The April 13/14 series was announced under the ‘Forms of criticism’ topic. Speakers included Lee Weng Choy, Galit Eilat, Pauline Yao…