Data Art for Climate Action (DACA2022)

Conference

Data Art for Climate Action (DACA2022) is a dual-hub conference (physical events at two locations - Hong Kong and Graz, Austria that are connected over the Internet) for researchers who focus on the interactive concurrent sonification and visualisation of climate data with a purpose of exploration, awareness, education, and action.

21 Feb 26 Feb 2022
http://dataclimate.org/
Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre
DACA
(21 February 2022) In view of recent Covid19 restrictions following Government and City University of Hong Kong, the DACA Student Workshop has been postponed. The Conference will take place Tuesday 21 through Saturday 26 February in Hong Kong, and Saturday 5 March in Graz.
All keynotes, sessions, and panels will be on Zoom.
DAT/ACT DATA ART FOR CLIMATE ACTION GALLERY will open online on Wednesday, 23 February 19:00.
All registrations are at ZERO cost. But in order to receive important information such as Zoom links, you must still register. Pre-register for free here to join via Zoom.
 
Official website: http://dataclimate.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dataclimate/

DACA 2022

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https://epay.cityu.edu.hk/daca2022

DAT/ACT DATA ART FOR CLIMATE ACTION (DACA 2022 Exhibition)

Programme details: https://dat-act.scm.cityu.edu.hk/
https://www.scm.cityu.edu.hk/events/dat-act
DAT_ACT Poster online

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Destination Hong Kong: South Korean Cinema's Encounter with Chinese-Language Cinemas, City University of Hong Kong – Korean Film Archive Joint Film Studies Conference

Conference

This is an in-person event, open to the public. Prior registration is required at least three days before the start of the event. Non-CityUHK attendees will receive emailed instructions for building access and may be asked to present a government-issued photo ID upon arrival. CityUHK attendees must present their CityUHK ID.

16 May 17 May 2025
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Future Cinema Studio (M6094), L6, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong
Free admission
Destination Hong Kong poster

Please register for the conference here: https://forms.gle/ZG2reLNTdmDW6XgH8

Download the Conference Program Booklet: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a8aTvu2aIVOSJZhHVJuhKsPGYNFiUwPo/view


“Destination Hong Kong: South Korean Cinema’s Encounter with Chinese-Language Cinemas” conference is organized by the School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong in partnership with Korean Film Archive (KOFA) and Asian Cinema Research Lab (ACR Lab). This conference will explore how South Korean cinema was shaped by a trans-regional network that included the cinemas of Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and mainland China from the 1950s to the twenty-first century. The two-day conference will bring together leading and emerging scholars and experts of South Korean and Asian cinemas from the Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America, to present their research findings and new developments in theory and methodology.

Conference Convenors:

Sangjoon Lee (City University of Hong Kong)
Chonghwa Chung (Korean Film Archive)

Keynote Speakers:

Chris Berry (King’s College London)
Hong-Joon Kim (Korean Film Archive)

Speakers:

Ting-Wu Cho (National Chengchi University)
Chonghwa Chung (Korean Film Archive)
Elaine Chung (Cardiff University)
Sam Ho (Hong Kong Film Archive)
So Hye Kim (University of Hong Kong)
Suhyun Kim (Kyoto University)
Sangjoon Lee (City University of Hong Kong)
Kenny Ng (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Eun-Jee Park (Pusan National University)
Stephen Teo (Film Historian)
Jessica Siu-yin Yeung (Lingnan University)
Seo-Yeon Yoon (Korean Film Archive)
Chloe Wenxian Zhang (University of Southern California)
Andy Zhu (University of Amsterdam)

Chairs and Discussants:

Shin Dong Kim (Hong Kong Baptist University)
So Hye Kim (University of Hong Kong)
Suhyun Kim (Kyoto University)
Kenny Ng (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Dorothy W. S. Lau (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Jinhee Park (Lingnan University)
Enoch Yee-lok Tam (Lingnan University)


Screening: Legend of The Mountain

Legend of The Mountain (1979), Directed by King Hu*

184 minutes, 4K DCP, Mandarin, with English Subtitles

Date: 17 May 2025

Time: 2:00 pm

Venue: Future Cinema Studio (M6094), L6, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong

Prior registration is required on a first come, first served basis. By invitation only. All CityUHK students and staff, peers in cinema and creative media education and industry professionals are invited to attend the screening.

*The 4K DCP print is available in courtesy of Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute and First Distributors (HK).


Presented by:

School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong
Korean Film Archive
Asian Cinema Research Lab (ACR Lab)

New Directions in Trans-Asian Cinema and Media Studies, City University of Hong Kong – New York University Joint Symposium

Conference
24 Apr 2025
1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Senate Room, 19/F, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building (LAU), City University of Hong Kong.
Free admission
New Directions in Trans-Asian Cinema and Media Studies poster

Please register for the conference here: https://forms.gle/1cQ8teyzpxLHfANKA

Please download the program notes here: https://shorturl.at/fmHP6

This is an in-person event (with zoom live broadcast), open to the public. Prior registration is required at least three days before the start of the event. Non-CityUHK attendees will receive emailed instructions for building access and may be asked to present a government-issued photo ID upon arrival. CityUHK attendees must present their CityUHK ID.


Asian cinema studies has rapidly expanded under the impact of globalization, compounded by the resurgence of varied nationalisms, resistance movements, and the affordances of digital media. Differentiated experiences of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic have further heightened interest in local politics and cultural activism, newer media and the digital everyday, and a renewed geopolitical divide between East and West and between North and South. A new “companion” to Asian cinemas therefore feels necessary and urgent in these times. This collaborative volume takes up emerging questions in the field to weave a model for a “trans-Asian” film studies that is cognizant of the durability of the nation state as well as alternative models of situated multiscalar ideas of place and belonging.

“New Directions in Trans-Asian Cinema and Media Studies” symposium is organized by the School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong in partnership with the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Asian Film & Media Initiative (AFMI), and Asian Cinema Research Lab (ACR Lab). This symposium is a subsequent event for the publication of The Routledge Companion to Asian Cinemas, a massive volume of Asian cinema studies, which was edited by Zhang Zhen, Sangjoon Lee, Intan Paramaditha, and Debashree Mukherjee.

Symposium Organizers:

Sangjoon Lee (City University of Hong Kong)
Zhen Zhang (New York University)
Intan Paramaditha (Macquarie University)

Speakers:

Zhen Zhang (New York University)
Intan Paramaditha (Macquarie University)
Alicia Izharuddin (National University of Singapore)
Elizabeth Wijaya (University of Toronto)
Enoch Yee-lok Tam (Lingnan University)
Daisy Yan Du (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Chairs and Discussants:

Richard Allen (City University of Hong Kong)
Jean Ma (University of Hong Kong)
Elmo Gonzaga (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Jerrine Tan (City University of Hong Kong)
Zoe Meng Jiang (University of Hong Kong)

Symposium Schedule

1:00 - 1:20 pm
Welcome Remarks

1:20 - 2:10 pm
Keynote Lecture:
“Trans-Asian Cinemas at Home in the World”
Zhen Zhang (New York University)

Discussant:
Jean Ma (University of Hong Kong)

2:10 - 3:10 pm
Panel ONE
Gender Politics and Trans-Border Connections
Chair: Jerrine Tan (City University of Hong Kong)

“Transnational Women’s Cinema in Southeast Asia: Mouly Surya’s Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts”
Intan Paramaditha (Macquarie University)

“Revisiting the Face Veil in Post-Pandemic Times: The Humane Visual Ethics of Indonesian Islamic Filmmaking”
Alicia Izharuddin (National University of Singapore)

Discussant:
Elmo Gonzaga (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

3:10 - 3:30 pm
Tea Break

3:30 – 5:00 pm
Panel TWO
Colonial, National, and Trans-Asian Imaginaries
Chair: Richard Allen (City University of Hong Kong)

“Desiring Nanyang, Nation, and Home: Fictions of Belonging in Two Rediscovered Postwar Films from Singapore”
Elizabeth Wijaya (University of Toronto)

“Personality and Morality in Screen Performance: Hong Kong Film Criticism and Social Reform of the 1920s”
Enoch Yee-lok Tam (Lingnan University)

“Melting the Iron Curtain: Political Immediacy, Metal-morphosis, and the Caricatured Western Leaders in Agitprop Animation in Socialist China, 1949–65”
Daisy Yan Du (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Discussant:
Zoe Meng Jiang (University of Hong Kong)

5:10 - 6:20 pm
Roundtable Discussion

 

Presented by:

School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong
Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts
Asian Cinema Research Lab (ACR Lab)
Asian Film & Media Initiative (AFMI)

Imagining Reality: Symposium on synthography and artificial photorealistic imaging

Conference
07 Mar 08 Mar 2025
M6050 (Symposium), L6 || Future Cinema Studio M6094 (Screening), L6 || Singing Waves Gallery M3301 (Exhibition), L3, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong (CMC).
Free admission. Prior registration is required 2 days in advance.
Imagining Reality Symposium schedule poster Rev
Introduction

Reality no longer has the value that was once attributed to it. At the very least, it has become more difficult to capture. AI and advanced automations have blurred the lines between reality and representation, challenging the idea that photographs are inherently truthful. When Susan Sontag wrote "On Photography", the era of affordable, viable equipment had only just begun, and so she claimed: “Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire”. At an earlier crucial moment, when photography was recognised as an art in its own right, Alfred Stieglitz remarked: “In photography, there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality”. Nowadays, these quotes sound like a strange echo from a distant past. What has happened?

With the advent of AI-generated photorealistic images in easily accessible online platforms, synthetic imaging suddenly is widely discussed. This phenomenon not only captivates the public’s imagination but also obscures a quieter revolution that has been reshaping image-making in the digital domain for decades. The concept of “the decisive moment” has been taken out of the photographer’s hands, as various automated mechanisms embedded within both the imaging apparatus and the editing pipeline challenge traditional notions of authorship. This reassessment and re-evaluation of the established understanding of photography demands for a precise and nuanced description for images that are not produced through conventional optical means. The term synthography encapsulates the essence of these artificially generated, photorealistic images, reflecting the diverse methodologies employed in their creation.

This symposium aims to serve as a dynamic platform for exploring the potential and implications of synthetically generated images across art, design, and education.

Programmes

FRIDAY, MARCH 7

2 pm - 6 pm
Session 1: OPTICAL ILLUSIONS
Venue: M6050, L6, CMC

6 pm - 7 pm
Exhibition Opening
Venue: Singing Waves Gallery (M3301), L3, CMC

7 pm
Screening: Double Happiness, with introduction by Ella Raidel
Venue: Future Cinema Studio (M6094), L6, CMC

SATURDAY, MARCH 8

10 am - 1 pm
Session 2: CALCULATED SIMULATIONS
Venue: M6050, L6, CMC

2:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Session 3: THE AGE OF POST TRUTH
Venue: M6050, L6, CMC

Details: https://www.cityu.edu.hk/scm/imagine/programme/

Registration

Registration is required 2 days in advance. There is no online registration service on Saturday.

https://forms.gle/1k28KrrJp3Fk2D6n6

City University of Hong Kong – Seoul National University Joint Media Studies Conference: Netflix and South Korean Media in a Globalizing World

Conference

This conference is free and open to the public. Registration is required.

13 Dec 2024
9:00 am - 6:30 pm
Senate Room, 19/F, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building (LAU), City University of Hong Kong. 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong.
Netflix and South Korean Media in a Globalizing World poster

Please register for the conference here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScZtS_yfAYsCG5S_hKKF-Lr1VF6n3wBG8FpqSaCk70HQ0zpDw/viewform

Please download the program booklet here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1d_DcNYlTeKTgTpwwzQlypwZfDHz7488x


Hosted by the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong and co-organised by the Center for Hallyu Studies at Seoul National University and Asian Cinema Research Lab (ACR Lab), Netflix and South Korean Media in a Globalizing World examines the impact of Netflix, the leading online streaming platform, on the production, distribution, and consumption of South Korean cultural industries in the expanding global media market. This conference, with scholars from both East and West, will provide a deeper understanding of the transformations of regional and transnational cultural industry practices, creative labor, artistic challenges, and transnational reception juxtaposed with and in response to the Korean cultural industries’ quantum leap in the (post-)age of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Netflix and South Korean Media in a Globalizing World conference will pose two overarching questions throughout the conference. Firstly, this conference examines the impact of the SVOD service, particularly Netflix, on the South Korean film and TV industries since its inception in 2016. Netflix's significant influence as a worldwide digital platform has prompted South Korean cultural creators to adapt their production practices in order to align with the new environment shaped by Netflix. The rapid growth of Netflix has also dismantled the long-standing division system between TV and film production in South Korea. The dynamic media landscape gives rise to conflicts between global and local SVOD platforms, as they worry about the diminishing influence of the local culture sector and the erosion of cultural heritage. We will thoroughly analyze all the concerns brought up in the initial overarching questioning. Secondly, this conference asks how Hallyu, the Korean Wave, is shifting the global content industries through Netflix. The widespread global appeal of various Korean TV dramas and films on Netflix has radically transformed the role of mediators in today's media landscape. Digital platforms, especially SVOD platforms, generate many ways of circulating media. Contrary to earlier stages, the transnationalization of local cultural content is now not only global but also simultaneous. By engaging with the Korean Wave’s digital mediascape, global audiences who otherwise would not have been exposed or attracted to such non-Western media are integrated into transnational cultural flows. With this academic endeavour, we hope to shed light on current debates and place them in contexts relevant to future work in transnational cultural studies.

Conference Convenors

Sangjoon Lee
Associate Professor
School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong

Seok-Kyeong Hong
Professor
Department of Communication, Seoul National University

Conference Speakers, Chairs, and Discussants

Younghan Cho (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)
Pei Sze Chow (Nanyang Technological University)
Hye Jean Chung (Kyung Hee University)
Hye Seung Chung (University at Buffalo)
Vincenzo Cicchelli (Universite Paris Cite)
Claire Gullander-Drolet (City University of Hong Kong)
Seok-Kyeong Hong (Seoul National University)
Wesley Aason Jacks (Lingnan University)
Joseph Jonghyun Jeon (University of California, Irvine)
Seung-hoon Jeong (California State University, Long Beach)
Dal Yong Jin (Simon Fraser University)
Liew Kai Khiun (Hong Kong Metropolitan University)
Jihoon Kim (Chung Ang University)
So-Hye Kim (University of Hong Kong)
Fen Jennifer Lin (City University of Hong Kong)
Lisa Y.M. Leung (Lingnan University)
Hyun Jung Stephany Noh (Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi)
Sojeong Park (Hanyang University)
Jinhee Park (Lingnan University)
Jiyoung Suh (Seoul National University)
S. Louisa Wei (City University of Hong Kong)
Yin Yuan (Saint Mary’s College of California)

Roundtable Discussants

Anthony Y.H. Fung (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Mette Hjort (Education University of Hong Kong)
Dal Yong Jin (Simon Fraser University)
Daya Thussu (Hong Kong Baptist University)

Presented By

School of Creative Media
City University of Hong Kong

Center for Hallyu Studies
Seoul National University

Asian Cinema Research Lab

Sponsored By

City University of Hong Kong

SNU Contemporary Korean Studies


If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at hiuchung@cityu.edu.hk


Getting to Lau Ming Wai Academic Building

By Mass Transit Railway (MTR) - Kwun Tong Line

1. Get off at Kowloon Tong station.
2. Find Exit C to Festival Walk then take Exit C2.
3. In Festival Walk, go up to Level LG1.
4. Find Shop LG1-10, take the escalator next to it, which brings you to a pedestrian subway leading to CityUHK.
5. Pass through the pedestrian subway and show the entry QR code to the security staff at the main entrance point. Turn right to reach the Chinese Garden.
6. Walk through the Chinese Garden and you will see Lau Ming Wai Academic Building in front of you.

By Bus / green mini-bus

1. Get off at Festival Walk terminus
    Citybus: #22, 702
    KMB: #203C
    Minibus: #2, 2A, 41A, 41M, 72, 73
2. Walk across Tat Chee Avenue at Festival Walk Tower.
3. Go up to Lau Ming Wai Academic Building along Tat Chee Avenue, you are at the entrance point at LAU’s 2/F Amphitheatre.
4. Pass through the security desk by showing the entry QR code to the security staff. Turn right and either take the escalator or go upstairs to 3/F.
5. Take the lift to 19/F the Senate Room.

By Taxi

1. Ask the taxi driver to take you to:

City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon (University Circle) 香港九龍達之路香港城市大學(圓型廣場)

When you get out of the taxi, you are in front of the Lau Ming Wai Academic Building.


VISITOR ARRANGEMENTS

1. All visitors entering the University campus must be pre-registered via the University's Visitor Registration System (VRS). The VRS can be accessed via Office Admin under AIMS by departmental staff who have VRS access privileges.

2. Once the visitor's information has been submitted via the VRS, an email will be sent to the visitor with a special QR code attached from the CityU-Visitor Registration System. The visitor must show the QR code and may need to present his/her personal ID to the security staff at campus entrance on the day of the visit. Upon confirmation, the visitor will receive a label valid for the day.

3. For guests who didn't receive the above email with the QR code, please check your spam or junk email folder in case the email was accidentally marked as spam.

4. A single email address cannot be shared with multiple visitors for registration on the same day.

5. Please refer to the Personal Information Collection Statement (PICS) for Visitor Registration System on our university's website: https://www.cityu.edu.hk/fmo/download/Personal%20Information%20Collection%20Statement_VRS.pdf

6. The Organizer/Presenter reserves the right to change, suspend or cancel the Event and Campus Access Policy or amend its terms and conditions at its discretion and to refuse entry to any person without prior notice.

 

 

 

International Game Designer Lab - Game Atlas: The Archeology of a World not Far-away

Conference

Co-presented by Goethe Institut, M+ and co-curated by Yang Jing (Allison), in collaboration with School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.

24 Oct 29 Oct 2022
International Game Designer Lab

“Game Atlas: The Archeology of a World not Far-away” aims to communicate ways of using games as a playful media to combine historical story-telling, representation of cultural heritage, community experiences with playful mechanics and virtual world-building.

Game designers from Asia and Europe are invited to exchange perspectives and methodologies and explore the power of games in producing contextualised contents for local and global game players.

Programmes include:

GAME DESIGNER LAB

24. – 27.10.2022, 8 – 10 PM | Current Plans & Online

A 4-day game design conference where Hong Kong speakers and attendees come together at Current Plans, an independent art space, and meet the international speakers via Zoom. The entire event will be streamed live and is open to an international audience of art game enthusiasts.

Day 1

24.10.2022 (Mon) 8 - 10 PM HKT
HalfReal: The Third Space in Game

Keynote:
Peter AC Nelson (Australia / Hong Kong)
Moderators: 
Yang Jing (Allison), Eunice Tsang
Panelists:
Vvzela Kook (Hong Kong)
Cornelia Geppert (Germany / US)
Cui Yingting (China)
Sun Yuqian (China / UK)

Day 2

25.10.2022 (Tue) 8 - 10 PM HKT
Ghosts From Before: Replaying Mythologies and Traditions

Keynote:
Souvik Mukherjee (India)
Moderators: 
Yang Jing (Allison), Dr Jussi Holopainen
Panelists:
Jennifer Schneidereit (Germany/UK)
Wen-wei Chang (Taiwan)
Sojung Bahng (Korea / Canada)

Day 3

26.10.2022 (Wed) 8 - 10 PM HKT
Lived Protagonists: Time Travel in Games

Keynote:
Henrike Lode (Germany/Johannesburg)
Moderators: 
Yang Jing (Allison), Kyle Chung
Panelists:
Deng Buran (China)
Jörg Friedrich (Germany)
Alex Zenker (Germany)
Charissa So & Tida Kietsungden (Canada)

Day 4

27.10.2022 (Thu) 8 - 10 PM HKT
Play Together: Game as Social Space

Keynote:
Alan Kwan (Hong Kong)
Moderators: 
Yang Jing (Allison), Ray L.C. 
Panelists:
Nick Zhang (China)
Anselm Pyta (Germany)
Rachel Li (China/US)

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M+ GAME NIGHT: GAMING WITH THE DEVELOPERS

28.10.2022 (Fri), 7 – 9 PM | Grand Stair M+

Experience videogames as they are meant to be experienced–through play. Hear from three indie game developers, who will share their background stories and discuss their design perspectives.

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M+ YOUNG PEOPLE MEET-UP: CITY BUILDING AS A BOARD GAME

29.10.2022 (Sat), 11 AM - 1 PM | Grand Stair, M+

Join game masters from game design, performance, and arts and culture. Share your reimagined city with others around you and find out what elements overlap!

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Developing Common Stage – International Forum I/2014

Conference
27 Feb 01 Mar 2014
M9001, L9, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre
Developing Common Stage – International Forum I/2014

Date :
2014.2.27 - 2014.3.1

Location :
M9001, L9, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre

Developing Common Stage – International Forum I/2014

Developing Common Stage

International Forum I/2014

Opening of the discussion about the development of an advanced transcultural and cross-disciplinary education format in the field of TransArt/Performance (Studies) in the framework of a future ZHdK Study Centre in Hong Kong.

Preamble

About a future ZHdK Study Centre in Hong Kong

Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) is seeking to establish a study centre in Hong Kong. One key objective of the envisaged centre is to explore perspectives for how a 21st-century arts university might advance as an institution in a globalized world. The study centre will also strive to stimulate common research & development perspectives between Zurich, Hong Kong, and partners in mainland China. This calls for generating and undertaking cooperative projects and for providing opportunities for existing and new research & development initiatives, in particular beyond familiar models of ordinary student exchange.

Based on its own experiences, areas of expertise and fields of interest, ZHdK is planning to engage in research & development, teaching and executive education in partnership with other academic institutions and internationally renowned organizations and experts from various fields of the arts and culture. Considering existing initiatives and opportunities between ZHdK/Europe and Hong Kong/mainland China, three focal topics have been defined as a frame of reference for developing projects aimed at initiating the Hong Kong Study Centre:

  • Urban (Studies)
  • Curatorial (Studies)
  • TransArt (Studies)

Common Stage

Common Stage is the main initiative in the field of “TransArt/Performance (Studies)”. For the past five years, ZHdK has been organising an interdisciplinary summer academy called "Common Stage" in collaboration with the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts (NACTA) in Beijing.

The project is unique as it brings together traditional and modern art forms and involves a wide range of different disciplines from the fields of theatre, music, design, fine arts, and arts education. Central to the project are practical artistic collaborations between various cultures, art forms, and disciplines.

“Forum I”: Programme and Content

Based on its experience of Common Stage, ZHdK will initiate a process with existing partners, other art institutions, artists, and theorists to discuss a long-term perspective for developing a postgraduate educational format (MA level) in the field of transcultural and cross-disciplinary TransArt/Performance (Studies) in Hong Kong. “Forum I,” which will be held in February 2014, will serve as a starting point for establishing a common basis and for exchanging ideas about setting up a collaborative educational format in the period 2015-2017To start this project as a transcultural collaboration, we are convinced that it is important to address, analyze, and discuss some fundamental questions concerning the topics “cultural references”, “transculturality”, “cross-disciplinarity”, and “tradition/identity”. Thereby it is crucial to connect theoretical analysis and scientific reflection with personal experiences and institutional conditions. Below we outline briefly the four focal topics of the first two days of “Forum I” and ask to which extent this might be productive for the development of advanced art education in the 21stcentury.

Day 1, 27 February 2014

Fields of References

Artists, teachers, and theorists – we all are oriented toward a field of references. This happens more or less (un)consciously. This framework is obviously culturally and historically shaped. That does not mean that it is homogenous and compliant. On the contrary, a personal or collective framework can also run counter to cultures and traditions lured by so-called “globalization”. It could be important and interesting for our meeting and collaboration to reflect, outline, and discuss these different fields of orientation within which we construct and experience our present. Which cultural and artistic fields are important, which representatives, which kind of philosophical horizon, which culture of critique, which conceptions of a future are we dealing with? Debating these questions may help us discover a fundamental ignorance about what other consider important for themselves and their work; or we might be surprised to discover that we are orienting ourselves toward quite closely related fields of references. Given these questions, it would be interesting to talk about concrete examples of cultural, artistic, and philosophical references and frames of importance to our personal and institutional work.

Tradition

One special part of these fields of references is the historical dimension of tradition and genealogies. None of us is free of preconceptions, nor do we reinvent the wheel, not even as “avant-gardists”. In the present age, we are characterized by tradition(s). We wonder how we happened to become what we are. Is the “past” of fundamental importance – and if so, how and why? What do we mean when we say “tradition”: Is it a master narrative or a personal invention? Is it possible to bring tradition up to date – or should we annihilate and forget it? Perhaps the tradition(s) to which we refer is/are interrupted or fragmented. Such a perspective also raises the question of “innovation” in art and culture, that is, the question of what is “new”, of what constitutes “progress”, etc. It is important to discuss these problems using specific examples: how and why genealogies and tradition, the memory of our ancestors, are meaningful for our practice (that is, how we do things) – in the arts, in theory, in the urban public sphere. We relate to tradition between the poles of authority and emancipation, burden and chance, obligation and contingency: here, in the in-between, we are forced to position ourselves, also in distinction to others. Which stories can we tell about our becoming subjects? Associated with this is also the question of identity, which we shall discuss on Day 2.

Day 2, 28 February 2014

Transculturality

The economy goes global, and political systems are intertwined worldwide: goods, information, signs, and humans are on the way to (apparent) boundlessness. Trans- and multiculturalism seem to be the order of the day. But what does this “categorical imperative” mean exactly? Are our local or regional orientations obsolete? Are we now always on the road, “in-between”, schizoid and manifold in our identities? How can we gain the skills and the know-how to engage in different cultures, so as to appreciate and to relate to them? Once again, these are of course “big” questions. Nevertheless, we aim to discuss the challenge and our desire to embrace this “transculturality” in our personal and institutional work? Is it about knowledge, experience, critique, about friendship, competition, power, and authority?  Is it possible – based on our experiences – to “understand” each other? And how can we develop ourselves while experiencing yet another crucial revision of our culture? Is it at all possible to speak of “our” culture?

Cross-disciplinarity

The development of the arts and sciences (since the 16th and 19th centuries, at least in the West) is distinguished by differentiation and specialization. This fact also determines education and the art and design market. For about twenty years, however, we can observe a growing focus on “trans-“, “mixed-“, and “cross-“ as countertendencies to any monolithic conceptions of the arts and design. Art practice and education , and their corresponding theories, pursue different strategies and forms of interactions, decussations, and interdependencies. This major shift confronts us with different questions: Is this observed fundamental paradigm change true and if so how has it emerged? How are these transitions related to the development of new technologies and how do they refer to the changes of the social and cultural present? What effects do they produce and which possibilities and new perspectives do they open up? Or: which deficits do they cause? Which experiences are important for us and hence need to be discussed?

Day 3, 1 March 2014

Development of extended education format

Based on our exchange of experiences, ideas, and awareness during the first two days, Day 3 will focus on possible concepts for a long-term educational program that we want to establish as a collaboration. How can we develop the “Common Stage” project and how might this program be integrated into the curriculum of a postgraduate course to be launched in fall 2015. It will be interesting to discuss different educational formats in practice and theory, to exchange corresponding experiences, and to sketch possible forms and strategies of collaboration. With a view to launching the proposed course in 2015, it would be desirable to develop some ideas as specifically as possible at this stage.

Forum II / Next Steps

Clarifying needs and visions. In fall 2014, we shall organize a second forum that we want to prepare this afternoon. “Forum II” should specify the 2015 project and assign the corresponding tasks. Therefore we should prepare the Forum program based on our morning discussion (i.e., distribute the different tasks to participants that are interested to be involved: conception of topics, conception of formats, inclusion of arts, design, and different media: within the contexts of (cross-)disciplinarity, curriculum conception, peer group and institutional collaboration, funding strategies, promotion strategies, and reaching a wider public, etc. ZHdK is interested in developing a long-term partnership with the participants of “Forum I” and “Forum II”.

Schedule

Thursday, 27 February 2014

09.30 Welcome Host: Harald Kraemer, School of Creative Media

09.35 Welcome and Introduction Conference: Daniel Späti, ZHdK

10.00 „Field of references“ / Inputs by (approx. 15 minutes each, on the basis of specific examples):

-   Ceri Sherlock/Gillian Choa, HKAPA
-   Zhao Chuan, Shanghai
-   Hamad Nasar/Anthony Yung, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
-   Jörg Huber, Zurich

followed by discussion

13.00 Lunch

14.00 „Tradition“ / Inputs by (approx. 15 minutes each, on the basis of specific examples):

-   Zhou Long, Liu Xiaoqing, NACTA
-   Tian Mansha, STA
-   Frank Vigneron, CUHK

followed by discussion

16.00 Break

16.30 Discussion and conclusion

18.00 End

19.00 Dinner

Friday, 28 February 2014

09.30 „Transculturality“ / Inputs by (approx. 15 minutes each, on the basis of specific examples):

-   Danny Yung, Hong Kong
-   Hans-Georg Knopp, Shanghai/Berlin
-   Daniel Spaeti, ZHdK

followed by discussion

13.00 Lunch

14.00 „Cross-disciplinarity“ / Inputs by (approx. 15 minutes each, on the basis of specific examples):

-   Maurice Benayoun, School of Creative Media
-   Qinyi Lim, Paracite Art Space, Hong Kong – to be confirmed
-   Patrick Müller, ZHdK

followed by discussion

16.00 Break

16.30 Discussion and conclusion

18.00 End and Apero with additional local guests

Saturday, 1 March 2014

09.30 „Program development of extended educational format“ / Inputs by:

-   Patrick Müller, ZHdK
-   Daniel Spaeti, ZHdK

followed by discussion

12.00 Lunch

13.00 "Program development of extended educational format, Planning Forum II & Activities 2014/15"

15.00 Conclusions

16.00 End

 

List of Participants

Confirmed participants

Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK):

Prof. Hartmut Wickert, Board Member and Director of Performing Arts Department ZHdK
Prof. Patrick Müller, Project Lead ZHdK Study Centre Hong Kong, Head of MA Transdisciplinarity
Daniel Späti, Project Lead Common Stage, Lecturer and Research Fellow
Nuria Krämer, Artistic and Scientific Associate, ZHdK Study Centre Hong Kong

National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts (NACTA), 1-2 representatives:

Prof. Liu Xiaoqing, Project Lead Common Stage, Head of Costume Design
Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts (HKAPA):
Prof. Ceri Sherlock, Chair of School of Drama
Gillian Choa, Chair of School of Theatre and Entertainment Arts

City University of Hong Kong (CityU):

Prof. Dr. Maurice Benayoun, School of Creative Media
Dr. Harald Kraemer, Associate Professor, School of Creative Media
Dr. Bo Zheng, Assistant Professor, School of Creative Media
Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK):
Prof. Dr. Frank Vigneron, Head of Graduate Division, Dep. of Fine Arts
Guest, PhD Student/Performance Studies, Singapore

Shanghai Theatre Academy (STA):

Prof. Tian Mansha, Vice-President, College of Xiqu
Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Knopp, Senior Advisor for International Development Strategy (former Secretary General of Goethe Institutes worldwide)
China Academy of Art, Hangzhou:
Dr. Shi Ke, Associate Professor Performance Art, School of Transmedia Art
Xinghai Conservatory of Music, Guangzhou:
Tao Mo, Provost or other representative confirmed

Experts (HK, Mainland China, Europe):

Danny Yung, Director, Artist, Founder Zuni Icosahedron, Board Member WKCDA, Hong Kong
Zhao Chuan, Director, Writer, Shanghai
Hammad Nasar, Head of Research and Programmes, Asia Art Archive (AAA), Hong Kong
Anthony Yung, Project Coordinator/Senior Researcher, Asia Art Archive (AAA), Hong Kong
Prof. Dr. Jörg Huber, Critical Theory and Aesthetics, Zurich

Translation

LeeAnne Yu, ZHdK Study Centre Hong Kong

The Fifth Hong Kong International Deaf Film Festival & The First International Conference On Deaf Cinema

Conference
07 Mar 2015
02:30pm - 06:30pm
Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre
The Fifth Hong Kong International Deaf Film Festival & The First International Conference On Deaf Cinema

第五屆香港國際聾人電影節暨 首屆聾人電影國際研討會

Date :
2015.03.07 (Sat)

Location :
香港城市大學創意媒體學院

Time :
2:30pm - 6:30pm

合辦:香港聾人協進會、香港藝術中心、亞洲民眾戲劇節協會、香港城市大學、香港城市大學創意媒體學院、香港城市大學應用社會科學系
資助:香港藝術發展局
參與機構:路德會啟聾學校校友會、紫荊聚集、無言天地劇團、聾人資訊、香港聾劇團、社區文化發展中心

振趐起飛,拍出聾情

聾人導演及聾人團體一同討論香港聾人電影的當下現狀與未來展望。此次研討會將特別安排放映《節目一:吾誰與歸》

英國聾人Gary O’Dowd 與健聽音樂人Alex Vann一同創作之短片《兩個世界》以及香港聾人與健聽音樂人於雨傘運動「革命中24小時」中共同創作的手語歌短片《空中的手語》。

節目一:吾誰與歸
彩色 Col / DVD / 85 mins
小仙女
英國
英語對白,英國手語,中英文字幕
導演: Louis Neethling
九歲的莉比回家過聖誕假,發現一切都變了。健聽父親有一個新女朋友,祖母去世。莉比無法與繼母和新姐姐溝通。在感到孤獨的時候,一個懂手語的小仙女出現了!

汝聽到我所聽?
韓國/ 2014 / 19’40”
韓語對白,中英文字幕
導演: Kim Jin-yu
俏皮的阿豪與溫柔的聾人母親生活。日子看來簡單又歡樂,然而也有隱藏的傷疤。

第一集 – 睇我講
西班牙 / 2014 / 14’29”
西班牙語對白,西班牙手語,中英文字幕
導演: Veru Rodríguez Rodríguez
一部共13集的處境喜劇的第一集,三個聾男再加一個聾女,聾人日常生活就此起。齊來一覽手語的視覺聲音。

誰是誰非
印度 / 2011 / 15’15”
印度手語,中英文字幕導演: K. Murali
女兒和兒子向父親要錢,父親偏心兒子;最後發現被兒子欺騙,而女兒則誠實不欺。

啪出聾情
香港/ 2014 / 10’31”
粵語對白,香港手語,中英文字幕
導演:蔡冀逵、林世舜
兄弟情深,健聽哥哥將要離開聾的弟弟。小品式原汁原味港產片。

同場加映

兩個世界
英國/2012/ 9’15″
導演:Gary O’Down 及 Alex Vann
遊走於兩個聾人和健聽兩個世界;創作出屬於兩個世界的歌曲。

空中的手語
香港/2015/1’15″
粵語對白,香港手語,中文字幕
導演:革命中的24小時

被忽略的知情懽: 香港缺乏手語新聞
香港/2015/4’50″
導演:梁嘉怡
87枚催淚彈,開展一場全城關注的佔領行動,但電視台缺乏手語傳譯,全港近十萬名聽障人士難以得知這場運動的發展。

港人爭取公平普選權利的同時,我們亦應在日常生活實踐真正的平等原則,令聽障人士享有平等的知情權。

首屆聾人電影國際研討會

第五場:香港聾人電影的發展
講者
吳穗萍: 聾人資訊總監
蔡冀逵: 香港聾人電影導演

 

THE FIFTH HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL DEAF FILM FESTIVAL & THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DEAF CINEMA

Co-presenters: Hong Kong Association of the Deaf; Hong Kong Arts Centre; Asian People’s Theatre Festival Society; City University of Hong Kong; School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong; Department of Applied Social Sciences, City University of Hong Kong

Supported by: Hong Kong Arts Development Council

Partners: Lutheran School for the Deaf Alumni Association, Hong Kong Bauhinias Deaf Club, Theatre of the Silence, News of Deaf, Hong Kong Theater of the Deaf, Centre for Community Culture Development

Dream of the Deaf, Let’s fly

Programme Enquiries and Reservation:
Tel: 2327 2497, 2891 8488, 2582 0247
Email: info@hongkongdeaf.org.hk / info@aptfs.org
Fax: 2327 7445
SMS / WhatsApp: 9204 6324
Website: www.hkidff.com

Programme 1: Could We Live Together?
Col / DVD / 85 mins
Tree Fairy
UK / 2013 / 25′
In English with British Sign Language;Chinese & English Subtitles
Director: Louis Neethling
When nine year old Libby returns home from school for the Christmas holidays she finds everything has changed. Her widowed, hearing father has a new girlfriend. Grandma has died. Libby can’t communicate with her step mother and sister. Sad and isolated, things change when a signing fairy on the tree comes to life.

Do You Hear What I Hear ?
Republic of Korea / 2014 / 19’40”
In Korean with Chinese & English Subtitles
Director: Kim Jin-yu
Hoo is a playful little third-grade boy living with a gentle mother who is Deaf. It seems his days would be filled with innocent fun, but even then a recent scar has been hidden.

Look at Me When I Talk – Episode 1
Spain / 2014 / 14’29”
In Spanish with Spanish Sign Language;Chinese & English Subtitles
Director: Veru Rodríguez Rodríguez
Look at me when I talk is a series consisting of 13 chapters whose protagonists are four Deaf people sharing an apartment. They live everyday stories.

True or False
India / 2011 / 15’15”
Indian Sign Language with Chinese & English Subtitles
Director: K. Murali
The daughter and the son ask for pocket money from their father. The father gives more to the son; by chance he discovers that his son deceives him while he is surprised by his daughter’s honesty.

Dream of the Deaf
Hong Kong / 2014 / 10’31”
In Cantonese with Hong Kong Sign Language ;Chinese & English Subtitles
Director: Terry Tsoi, Paul Lam
A little piece of Hong Kong Deaf film. It shows the bonding between a hearing and a Deaf brother.

Additional Screening

Two Worlds
UK/2012/9’15″
In English with British Sign Language
Director: Gary O’Down and Alex Vann
It is about “Two Worlds”, the Deaf and hearing. A profoundly Deaf adult tell his experiences growing in two worlds. He created a song which try to open up new worlds.

The Neglected Right to Know: The Lack of Sign Language News in Hong Kong
HK/2014/4’50″
In Cantonese with Hong Kong Sign Language with Chinese and English Subtitles
Director: Leung Ka Yi
87 canisters of tear gas fired by the police marks the beginning of the Occupy Movement in Hong Kong in 2014. Everyone in town concerned about its development, but the Deaf were stripped of their right to know with the absence of sign language interpretation on TV.

While Hong Kong people are fighting for a fair general election, we should also put the principle of equality in practice in our daily life by fighting for equal right to know for the Deaf.

Sign in the Air
HK/2014/1’15″
Director :  Revolution in 24 Hours
In Cantonese with Hong Kong Sign Language; Chinese Subtitles

The First International Conference On Deaf Cinema

Session 5
Date︰07/03/2015
Time: 2:30pm -6:30
Venue︰M6094 M6094 Future Cinema Studio, L6 Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre
City University of Hong Kong, 18 Tat Hong Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Seat Reservation︰
Tel: 2327 2497, 2891 8488, 2891 8482;
Email: info@hongkongdeaf.org.hk, info@aptfs.org;
Fax :2327 7445;
SMS: 9204 6324
Free Admission with Reservation
Interpretation in International Sign Language, Hong Kong Sign Language, and Cantonese will be provided.

Session 5: The Present and Future of Hong Kong Deaf Film

Discussion and imagination about the present and future of Hong Kong Deaf film with Deaf filmmakers and Deaf organizations.

Speaker:
Mary Ng, Director of News of Deaf (Hong Kong)
Terry Tsoi, Hong Kong Deaf Film Director (Hong Kong)

20th International Conference On Virtual Systems And Multimedia (VSMM 2014)

Conference
09 Dec 12 Dec 2014
L3, L8, L9, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre
20th International Conference On Virtual Systems And Multimedia (VSMM 2014)

Date :
2014.12.9 - 2014.12.12

Location :
L3, L8, L9, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre

ALiVE, Unit 103 &105, 1/F, Lakeside 2, Hong Kong Science Park

Welcome to VSMM 2014. For more details regarding the events and schedule, please visit the official website.

VSMM 2014

Symposium: Art And Public Space

Conference
12 Mar 2015
10:00am - 05:30pm
M6094, Future Cinema Studio, L6 Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre
Symposium: Art And Public Space

Date :
2015.03.12 (Thu)

Location :
M6094, Future Cinema Studio

Time :
10:00am - 5:30pm

Free Admission

Registration will start at 9am on event day.

Co-organized by University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria and School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong

Supported by the Austrian Consulate General in Hong Kong and Macao

Austrian Consulate General Hong Kong

Art and Public Space Symposium

Organized in cooperation of University of the Applied Arts in Vienna and School of Creative Media the One-Day-Symposium ART AND PUBLIC SPACE will allow an insight in the change and challenge of the role of the arts in public space. 8 speakers will give lessons from history, current examples and future perspectives.

Rundown:

10:00am -12:30pm

Welcome Remarks

Jeffrey Shaw | Dean, School of Creative Media

Claudia Reinprecht | Austrian Consul General In Hong Kong

Public Space Beyond Architecture – Art and Public Awareness

Gerald Bast | Rector,University of Applied Arts, Vienna

Arts and Public Engagement

Jenny Lau | School of Creative Media

But is it political? Art as Activism in the Public Sphere

Martin Krenn | University of Applied Arts, Vienna

12:30pm – 2:00pm

Lunch Break

2:00pm – 5:30pm

Going Outside

Jeffrey Shaw | School of Creative Media

Art Open Sky. Pervasion and Disruption of the Public Space

Maurice Benayoun | School of Creative Media

ETHICAL art and unnecessary signage

Don Ritter | School of Creative Media

Direct Urbanism. Towards a New Function of Art in Society

Barbara Holub | University of Applied Arts, Vienna

A wall. a thick archive for socially engaged art

Zheng Bo | School of Creative Media

Conclusio

Related Link: www.dieangewandte.at

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