CRT televisions create images by rapidly illuminating lines of phosphors, using the persistence of vision to transform these lights into moving images. Camcorders also account for the human eye, capturing action in front of the lens, frame by frame, and then connecting them into continuous sequences. Both technologies are designed to complement the human visual system, yet without an observer, they are reduced to repetitive stills and brief flashes of light. In moving images, collaboration between the human and the machine is essential for complete information transmission; only through ‘seeing’ can one ‘be seen.’

The commissioned project, Site Seeing by Hong Kong-based artist Wong Pak Hang, juxtaposes machine perspectives with human vision, exploring conscious and unconscious acts of filming and viewing. Within Videotage’s exhibition space, the artist reconnects cameras and televisions accumulated by the organisation over the years to create a field of machine interaction. Viewers wander between low-resolution lenses and colour-distorted screens, interfering with wireless signals while becoming objects of observation and merging into the image signals. The interplay between virtual and real, delay and immediacy, and engagement and feedback flows continuously along the cables, merging space, media devices, and viewers into a site-specific sensory experience.

Site Seeing is the inaugural chapter of Videotage’s media archaeology project, which invites the artist to intervene in the organisation’s exhibition space and its media equipment collection. In addition to the exhibition, Wong Pak Hang will extend these discussions through live performances and performance lectures in collaboration with Jonathan Kan, Ian Tang and Hou Lam Tsui.

CRT 電視透過快速照亮螢光體線來生成圖像，並藉由人類視覺暫留將這些光點轉化為動態影像。攝錄機同樣考量人眼的特性，逐格拍攝鏡頭前的動作並串連成連續畫面。兩者皆設計來配合人類視覺系統，但若無人觀視，則僅剩重複的定格與短暫的光束。在動態影像的世界裡，人與機器需要協作才能完成資訊傳遞，只有「看見」才能「被看見」。

本地藝術家黃百亨的委約創作項目《眼前》將機器視角與人類視覺並置，藉此探討有意識與無意識的拍攝與觀看行為。在錄映太奇的展覽空間內，藝術家重新連接機構多年累積的攝錄機和電視機，構建出一個機器交互的場域。觀眾在低解析度的鏡頭和色偏的電視間遊走探索，干擾無線訊號的同時，也成為被觀看的對象，成為影像訊號的一部分。虛與實、延遲與即時、投入與反饋在訊號線之間不斷輸入輸出，將空間、媒體設備及觀者融合成一場場域限定的觀感體驗。

《眼前》為錄映太奇媒體考古計劃的首篇章，邀請藝術家以創作介入機構的展場空間及其收藏的媒體設備。除展覽外，黄百亨將分別聯同簡以誠、鄧一言及徐皓霖以現場表演及表演講座作延伸討論。

23.11.2024 – 5.1.2025
12:00 – 19:00 (Wed to Sun 三至日)

Opening Reception | 開幕酒會
16:00 | 23.11.2024 (Sat 六)

Artist | 藝術家: Wong Pak Hang 黃百亨
Curated by | 策劃: Johnny Au 歐健韋, Doris Poon 潘韻怡
Visual Design | 視覺設計: Kathy Wong 黃倬詠

Opening Performance | 開幕表演
A Blink Sequence
Artists | 藝術家: Jonathan Kan 簡以誠, Ian Tang 鄧一言, Wong Pak Hang 黃百亨
18:00 | 23.11.2024 (Sat 六)
Registration link | 登記連結：https://www.eventbrite.hk/e/wong-pak-hang-site-seeing-opening-performance-tickets-1079066429739
Free Seating 不設劃位

Closing Performance Lecture ｜閉幕表演講座
Reaching This Point is the Limit 去到呢度就係極限
Artists | 藝術家: Hou Lam Tsui 徐皓霖, Wong Pak Hang 黃百亨
17:00 | 04.01.2025 (Sat 六)
Registration link | 登記連結：https://www.eventbrite.hk/e/wong-pak-hang-site-seeing-closing-performance-lecture-tickets-1112324716169
Free Seating 不設劃位
The performance will be conducted in Cantonese 表演以廣東話進行

Presented by | 主辦: Videotage 錄映太奇
Supported by | 資助: Hong Kong Arts Development Council 香港藝術發展局*

* Videotage is financially supported by the HKADC. 錄影太奇為藝發局資助團體。
* Hong Kong Arts Development Council supports freedom of artistic expression. The views and opinions expressed in this project do not represent the stand of the Council. 香港藝術發展局支持藝術表達自由，本計劃內容並不反映本局意見。