Organizer: Where’s The Chicken, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University
Supported by: Videotage
Date: 30 May 2009 (Sat), 3-5pm
Venue: Videotage
Speakers: Annie Wan and Ben Bogart
Language: English
FREE ADMISSION

Engagement of general public in Media Art is ever an important question, nevertheless it is difficult to be
justified. Artists create immersive and poetic experiences through different digital and innovative technologies in media art, especially most of the time, crafting such experience through participation of the general public audience. So, what is the relationship between the public participation and the artwork context in Media Art? What is the aesthetic of that experience and the content?

Ben Bogart bases in Canada. He is working in installation, audio-visual improvisation and software development. His artistic practice has always been about the world, rather than about expressing himself. Through interactive art, he considers his work a site of interaction between himself and the world. Inspired by work in cognitive science and artificial intelligence, His latest work involves the creation of systems that use sensors to examine their physical context and deals with computational implementations of embodied creativity, memory and dreaming. He is the artist-in-residence of Videotage under fuse:: residency
programme in May 2009.

Annie Wan, currently a visiting research scholar at Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University
and a Phd Candidate at Center For Digital Arts & Experimental Media, University of Washington, Seattle US,will discuss crafting experiences of general public in media art and its connection with the artwork context,in addition to various art projects as a series of monumental system and their paradigms. The Project “Where’s the Chicken”, which focuses on object-based media art and locative media, is presented by the Academy of Visual Arts (AVA),Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) with support from the Hong Kong
Arts Development Council. The exhibition festival will be held between 6-17, July 2009 in AVA’s Main Gallery with 3 days Symposium consists of new media art exhibition, public discussion forums, lectures and concert performances.