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Invention & Intervention
Colour-changing LED lights and tiny battery-powered machines will be part of Invention & Intervention, an exhibition of new media art from the organisers of the annual Microwave Festival. “The recurring theme is technology’s intervention in our lives, in particular signals we can’t see – mobile phones, Bluetooth, the weather and stock market data,” says programme director Joel Kwong. Accompanying the exhibition will be a one-off performance, Sense Live!, a collaboration between the exhibiting artists and professional dancers featuring a fusion of dance, sound and projections. Here’s our rundown of the artists and exhibitions.
Teddy Lo Shades Dynamicism
This New York City-based LED specialist has led design projects for companies like Greenpeace and Nissan. Through the use of colour-changing LEDs, his installation Shades Dynamicism transforms real-time weather conditions into interactive displays. With plans in the pipeline to revamp our city’s rather garish harbour lightshow, Lo’s work could be a glimpse of things to come on a much larger scale.
Keith Lam Signal Morphor
“Signals are all around us, yet we can’t see them,” says Lam, whose work has been shown in festivals around the world from Brazil to Croatia. Signal Morphor, aided by three enormous LED-rigged umbrellas that respond to mobile phone signals sent by the audience, aims to help visualise those signals which have such a big influence on people’s lives. Audience participation is crucial, Lam says. “There’ll be a big sign saying ‘turn your mobile phone ON during this performance.’”
Miu Ling Lam Streaming Nature
Los Angeles-based bioinformatics researcher and multi-media artist Lam looks to blend science and culture in her work. “With technology, nature becomes accessible to anyone, at any time and anywhere,” Lam says. She invites audience members to phone different points in the world like Antarctica and the Pacific Ocean to hear real-time underwater sounds.
Chris Hon Him Cheung No Longer Right
“We hardly write in pens. Technology is so advanced that people no longer need to write,” says Cheung, who focuses on the interactive side of new media art. His installation reminds us of the significance of handwriting. The audience can write something by hand and will receive a piece of writing based on their handwriting styles.
Samson Young Machines for Making Nothing
The classically trained composer and City University lecturer merges music and technology. With Machines for Making Nothing, electronic touch screen devices respond to physical stimulation from the audience. “People often have even more interaction with machines than with human beings nowadays,” says Young.
Matt Scowcroft
Invention & Intervention Festival Walk Fri 22-Aug 7, 10am-10pm. FREE
Sense Live! HKAPA Aug 7, 7.30pm. $120, $80. www.hkticketing.com
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