(11/26/2013) Olaf Hochcherz – watching Olaf Hochherz, a fellow PhD Felow at The School of Creative Media at CityU gave a talk on his sound art research of associative fields. To put it simply, Hochherz work starts with an array of synthesizer parameters. He then ‘walks’ around this multidimensional array, trying to define sub-arrays of…
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Asia, Hong Kong, Lecture/Performance/Event, Theory and Non-Art
CityU Distinguished Lecture: Prof. Myron S. Scholes “Global Economy: Post the Global Financial Crisis”
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(11/13/2013) An event of a different kind, beyond art and minimal art more so, but still of interest, at least for me. Prof. Scholes was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for the Black-Scholes option pricing model (a mathematical model of the financial market containing derivative instruments). The lecture at CityU was directed towards a…
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CityU Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre: “Bad Sculpture” exhibition
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(11/12/2013 – ?) An exhibition of student’s work at City University of Hong Kong created under the guidance of Adrian Wong. A mixture of really bad sculpture, boring sculpture and some pretty good pieces too. The biggest ‘fails’ for me were those sculptures utilizing toilet paper – probably the author’s thought of it as shocking,…
Asia, Hong Kong, Theory and Non-Art
CityU Architectural Studies Seminar: Dr. Jonathan A. Hale: Body-Building-World
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(11/12/2013) Prof. Hale’s (The University of Nottingham) guest lecture started off with a clearly dualist view of ‘transparent’ vs. ‘opaque’ technology, pitting against each other the ‘good old world’ and the ‘brave new world’: Handheld mechanical tools that provide ‘direct feedback’ vs. electric tools that provide an ‘experience of the machine’ instead of an experience…
Asia, Hong Kong, Lecture/Performance/Event
Hong Kong Int’l Literary Festival: Hong Kong: An Island of Creativity? – BBC “The Forum” Talk
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(11/10/2013) Hong Kong Literary Festival – Asia in Focus A discussion concluding the Hong Kong International Literary Festival, this talk was recorded by the BBC for the “The Forum” program. The topic sounded interesting, but once in the discussion started, the ‘dumbed down’ BBC World Service style quickly became apparent. Bridget Kendall, the BBC reporter,…
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Microwave Festival: Keynote Conference
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(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.
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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 –…
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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…
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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…