This compilation provides an overview of the prevailing concerns and aesthetics of early Hong Kang video art. Works featured in this selection include many members of Videotage, including Ellen Pau, Connie Choi, Wong Chi-fai and Ernest Fung.

本作品集結集了香港早期錄像藝術家普遍關心的題旨及美學素求。創作者包括錄影太奇成員如蔡敏儀，黃志輝，馮偉及鮑藹倫等。

Linda KONG participated in the Firebird film society. She is interested in video and media production.

CHOI Connie is founding member of Videotage. She is currently a full-time Financial Planner and amateur video artist.

WONG Chi-fai graduated from the Department of Fine Arts, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He works mainly in meida art, video, installation and theatre design. Since 1990, Wong has created stage designs for plays and performance by Hong Kong’s Sand & Bricks Theatre, as well as for theatre groups in Taiwan. He is also active in creating video art for theatre. Productions in which his work has appeared include the Altas’ Dance Art’s Memory Disorder and 2000.1.1 Unknown; Moment of Light theatre’s Deviant/Reasonant#2; Cheung Tat Ming’s Solo; and Bird, Birds by Makoto Matsushima.

Ellen Pau, born in Hong Kong, began her art career while studying radiography at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, creating her first experimental super-8 film, The Glove. She co-founded Videotage in 1986 and received the Asia Cultural Council Fellowship in 1992, creating Song of the Goddess in the U.S. Her international career launched at the 1995 Gwangju Biennale, followed by exhibitions at “City on the Move”, Asia Pacific Triennial, Shanghai Biennale and Taipei Biennale. Since 1996, she has been a director at the Microwave International Media Art Festival. At the 2001 Venice Biennale, she presented Recycling Cinema. Recent exhibitions include Awakening: Art in Society in Asia 1960s–1990s (2019) at the National Gallery Singapore, What About Home Affairs (2019) at Para-site and Shape of Light at M+ Facade (2022). Her works are held in collections of the Hong Kong Museum of Art, M+, and Griffith University. The Asia Art Archive launched her archive in 2023.

Ellen YUEN studied Cinema & Television at the university and started her involvement with video production (alternative, documentary, fiction, animation and education kit), arts administration and arts education. As a full-time vegetarian and supporter for environmental protection and animal rights, she uses video as a medium for sharing, healing and responding to the society’s dark side. Her video works include: Corner Bumpers, BYOB, Circle Game, New Vision of Video Art (Hong Kong), Death of a Vegetarian, ID and Happy Family. They have been shown in local screenings (e.g. IFVA, HKIFF, Microwave Video Festival, Festival Now) and overseas festivals in Toronto, Paris, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan and Germany.

Jessie PAK is passionately interested in video art and stage performance. She participated in many performances produced by Edward Lam Dance Theatre.