Websites: Art & Culture
www.hongkongartweb.com
More like a digital art collective than website, this electronic space allows hundreds of local artists to showcase their contemporary art to the masses. The simple, easy-to-use format allows users to peruse art based on art form – whether photography, ceramics or multimedia – and also contact the artist directly. A happy medium? We’d say so.
www.teddylo.tv
This ultra-electro-themed website is the brainchild of the man behind the local tech-art scene: Teddy Lo. Using the medium of LED (light-emitting diode), Lo has proven that an unconventional approach can evolve into an imaginative artistic vision. Plus the website is just hella cool.
www.oneaspace.org.hk
Proof that you don’t always have to be a public museum or a private gallery to promote modern art, 1aspace is a non-profit that produces visual art and organises exhibitions. Founded by a collective of Hong Kong art workers, the non-profit has been highly successful, as its cutting edge website attests to. Top of the class.
www.hongkong.edushi.com/Default.aspx?L=en
Like Google maps but with an additional 3-D perk, this website is all about knowing where you are. The site offers the standard satellite and two-dimension maps you get with Google, but the coolest element is its cartoon-oriented 3-D map that identifies the obscure high-rise buildings people pass every day. Still a work in progress, it currently only features the north shore of Hong Kong Island as far east as Victoria Park, and Kowloon Peninsula up to Boundary Street. Wait, is that our house we can see from here?

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