Syndicate: Microwave International Media Art Festival 2001

[Inke Arns <inke@snafu.de>]

Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 02:40:16 +0800
Subject: Microwave International Media Art Festival 2001
From: Fion Ng <ngfion@asiaonline.net>

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The Microwave International Media Art Festival, Hong Kong
3-22 September 2001

The Microwave International Media Art Festival is finally coming!  Are you
ready?

The Microwave Co. Ltd. and Videotage proudly present the annual Microwave
International Media Art Festival (MIMAF). The MIMAF is sponsored in part by
the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and the Leisure and Cultural
Services Department.  Additional support is provided by: G.O.D., All Nippon
Airways, Austrian Consulate General Hong Kong, Hanart TZ Gallery, Consulate
General of France in Hong Kong, coolala.com, and the School of Creative
Media, City University of Hong Kong.  

The MIMAF is an annual international festival in Hong Kong, which aims to
promote the cultural exchange and appreciation of new media art.  The title
for this fifth annual MIMAF is ?ransCode,?suggesting revolution, digital,
aliens.  MIMAF continues to use the revolutionary zeal while confronting
and embracing the digital information era.   Moreover, MIMAF transports the
latest incarnations, artists and experts in the fresh and exciting genre of
new media art, which often appear like aliens from the outer limits.
?ransCode?looks for new codes, new bodies, new images, new sounds, new
forms of writing in art and technology.  

As in the previous MIMAF, the festival hosts symposium, seminar,
screenings, and exhibition of the latest in new media art.  This, however,
is the largest Microwave Festival to date with over 80 overseas artists
participating in the video screening and 11 symposium speakers from Hong
Kong and abroad.  Additionally, it will be the first time for featuring
interactive media art installations.  All invited overseas artists for the
exhibition have participated in the prestigious Ars Electronica Festival
(Austria).  The honorary designer for the exhibition venue of the
interactive media art works is Mr. Douglas YOUNG, architect and Director of
G.O.D..

The exhibition will feature interactive media art installations of ?ife
Spacies II?by Christa SOMMERER (Austria) and Laurent MIGNONNEAU (France),
?ext Rain?by Camille UTTERBACK (USA) and Romy ACHITUV (Isreal),
?nfected?by Gina CZARNECKI (UK), ?oundCreatures?by ETO Kouichiro
(Japan), and ?ucking (Sky)?by LEUNG Chi-wo (Hong Kong).  

The symposium joins together artists and experts in the field of new media
from Hong Kong and abroad.  As Asian art makes waves in the international
art world, we have specially invited Ray WANG, Director of the ACER Center
for the Arts (Taiwan), and Ms. BECK Jee Sook, Insa Art Space of Korean
Culture & Arts Foundation (Korea).  Local speakers include: Professor Mark
GREEN (City University of Hong Kong), Hector RODRIGUEZ (City University of
Hong Kong) and Makin FUNG Bing Fai (video, sound and internet artist).  

The international video screening includes 2 special curated screening
programmes.  Mr. Tom VAN VLIET, Director of the World Wide Video Festival
(Netherlands), has curated three programmes titled ?esthetics in Media
Art.? Ms. Elaine W. NG and Videotage have curated three programmes titled
?ideoslam.? 

MIMAF? artist-in-resident is the cyberfeminist artist Ms. Francesca DA
RIMINI.  Ms. DA RIMINI will host a series of workshops that will examine
the current beats in Internet art projects. 

MIMAF will present the most active local artists using new media.  LEUNG
Chi-wo? ?ucking (Sky)?is a commissioned work for the MIMAF.
Additionally, VideoSlam includes videos from recent graduates from the
Polytechnic University of Hong Kong.  

Dates, times, and venues for MIMAF activities:

3-4 September 2001, Artist-in-Resident Workshops with Francesca DA RIMINI
(presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department)
Venue: Videotage, Unit 13, Cattle Deport Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok
Road, To Kau Wan, Kowloon

7 September 2001, 7-8pm Opening Reception
Venue: Exhibition Hall, Low Block, Hong Kong City Hall

7 September 2001, 9-11pm Opening Party
Venue: Videotage, Unit 13, Cattle Deport Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Rd.,
To Kau Wan, Kowloon

8-22 September 2001, 11am-8pm (Mon.-Fri.), 2pm-6pm (Sat,Sun) 
Interactive media art exhibition, 
Venue: Hong Kong City Hall Exhibition Hall, Free Admission.
Works include: Text Rain, Camille Utterback & Romy Achituv (USA);
Life Spacies II , Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau (Austria/France);
Soundcreatures, Kouichirou Eto (Japan);
Sucking-sky, Leung Chi-wo (Hong Kong);
Infected, Gina Czarnecki-G (UK); and CD ROMs/ Web Site from USA, Australia,
Germany, Canada, Romania, etc.

8-9 September 2001, 10:30 ?5:45pm Symposium, 
Venue: Recital Hall, 8/F, High Block, Hong Kong City Hall
Free Admission
Topics include:
* Impact of Digital Art Technology on Gender Issues
* From Analog to Digital
* Use of Electronics in New Music 
* Evolution and Art
* Curatorial Practices for Media Art Exhibitions Today
Speakers: Camille UTTERBACK (USA), Romy ACHITUV (Israel), Kouichirou ETO
(Japan), LEUNG Chi-wo, Gina CZARNECKI-G, Art JONES (USA), Ray WANG
(Taiwan), BECK Jee Sook (Korea), Mark GREEN (HK), Hector RODRIGUEZ
(moderator/HK), Tom VAN VLIET (Netherlands), Francesca DA RIMINI
(Australia), Makin Fung Bing Fai (HK).  

8-10 September 2001, 7:30pm (each evening) 
International Video Screening, ?esthetics in Media Art?curated by Tom VAN
VLIET Venue: Kwai Tsing Theatre Lecture Room, 

14-16 September 2001, 7:30pm (each evening)  
International Video Screening, ?ideoSlam?curated by Elaine W. NG and
Videotage.
Venue: Hong Kong Space Museum Theatre Lecture Hall,
Tickets: $30 (half-price tickets for senior citizens, people with
disabilities, full-time students and Comprehensive Social Security
Assistance(CSSA)recipients)

18 September 2001, 6:30pm, 
Seminar: Art as A Living System, 
Speakers: Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau.  
Venue: School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong,
Free Admission

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The contents of this program do not represent the views of the Hong Kong
Arts Development Council,  Leisure and Cultural Services Department and
other sponsors.

For further information, please contact Elaine Ng (English) or Fion Ng
(Chinese) at 852-2573-1869. 


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