CIL Bulletins

Dong Kai-cheung 董啟章, our new Creative Writing (SM1012) instructor starting this fall, has a new work, an adaptation of Calvino’s work into theatre: iD generation CosmoX (《宇宙連環圖》，和前進進劇團合作演出), performed on August 11-12 (7:30pm) + August 13 (3:00pm) at the Cultural Centre (theatre), TST, as part of the International Arts Carnival /For details, please visit: www.hkiac.gov.hk

“Apparition II” integrates live performance, sound, projection and an interactive system of real-time image generation and computer vision to seek new aesthetic protentials. The camera-based motion tracking system employs complex computer vision algorithms to extract the performer’s moving outline to return updated information for a body projection and calculations of motion dynamics such as speed, direction, intensity and volume, which are then assigned to the real-time generation of visuals projected directly back onto the body and/or as large-scale background projection. // Klaus Obermaier (direction, music & visuals) started exploring space and movement in 2000 with Digital Amplified Video Engine (D.A.V.E.), a solo dance theatre work that fused body and image into a consistent narrative, followed by VIVESECTOR (2002), combining set choreography, staging and recorded video. “APPARITION” (2004) is his first work using digital software-based interactive technologies. “APPARITIONS” and “APPARITIONS II” are the result of his involvement in the DAMPF_lab (Dance and Media Performance Fusions), a European joint performing arts/technologies research project. // World premiere in Hong Kong: September 16-17 (Sat & Sun) @ 8pm @ the Auditorium of Kwai Tsing Theatre / by Klaus Obermaier x Ars Electronica Futurelab (Austria) / presented by LCSD.

由藍空間主辦的第二屆”InDPanda國際短片節”將於八月三日至十六日，假百老匯電影中心舉行。
今年選映的短片多達一百四十二部，來自十七個國家和城市，比去年更精更妙。
有關詳情，請參閱附件，或於www.indpanda.com下載〔熊貓父子節目小冊子〕。
藍空間為非政府資助的非牟利電影及錄像團體，所有活動依靠微少的資源推行，有賴購票支持是次短片節。

SCM’s Ph.D. student Cedric Maridet is chairing a workshop series on soundscape as part of his Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre Artist in Residence Programme, also as HK Art Biennial 2005’s Price of Excellence winner for his video Huangpu. // Date: 20.7 ­ 24.8.2006 (Thursdays and Sundays, except 20.8.2006, 10 sessions) // Time: 6:00 ­ 9:00pm (Thursdays) 2:00 ­ 5:00pm (Sundays) // Venue: Level 4, Multi-purpose Room // No. of Participants: 12 // Age: 18 or above // Fee: $750/675/375* // Remark: Participant may bring their own digital recorder // Materials: About $400 (vary basing on different needs of participants) // For details, visit: http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/Apo/en/programmes20060701_9_9.html

Cedric is a French sound artist who works and lives in Hong Kong since 1999 and is currently a full-time PhD candidate in media art at SCM. He is the founder of Hong Kong based electronic music label moneme. With performances and exhibitions in Hong Kong and New York, his solo and collective works has been released on a compilation M001 (moneme, 2004). He has recently released an audio CD, _habitus, based on a real-time performance. Cedric will be teaching part of the “Sonic Arts and the History of Sounds & Noises” in Semester A, 2006.

Year Three students may be anxious about WHEN to begin your FYP. No need to worry. We’ve got a plan, which we shall explain to all Year 3 students during the Week-one Orientation. In brief, we want to streamline the FYP to make it handy and manageable. No preparation is required until the school year begins. So make full use of your summer to read, play and discover new interests for yourselves and make inventive connections with your future FYP-to-be.

Year Three students Morgan (Ah Fat), Poy and Bryant are helping to plan and organize the orientation activities for the CIL during the first teaching week. Please give them a hand: suggestions on what Year 2 and 3 students need will enable them to come up with a stronger and more coherent program. Contact them generously. The 1st teaching week in September (4th to 8th) will be devoted to special learning activities for all CIL members. No regular class for this week, but you should be an active participant in our special program.

Over 20 works by secondary school students created in workshops run by SCM students will be screened at Lecture Theatre 8 at 11:00am this Saturday (July 8), followed by a lunch party in SCM’s TV Studio. Works varied from video to photo-collage and flash animation, all created under the instruction and supervision of SCM students in the 8 schools that joined the 3rd edition of our Creativity-In-Action Projects. All are welcome to drop by. For details of projects, click here, then double-click CIA.

1st “Paul Chan” Sola in HK at Para/Site Art Space — HK-born, New York-based artist Paul Chan’s first ever exhibition in Hong Kong will showcase two installations, 4th Light and Happiness (Finally) After 35,000 Years of Civilization (after Henry Darger and Charles Fourier). Paul Chan (b. 1973) has received tremendous attention in the current international art scene; his works range from digital animation, installation, video to drawing; he is also for his political activism. He practised a pop aesthetic that is at once winsome and brutal, and delivers peculiar urgencies of our time. Visit: www.para-site.org.hk/events/20060707paulchan.htm for more details of the show. Visit: http://www.nationalphilistine.com/ for Paul Chan’s own web-site.

“酷 / 愛身體 Cruel/Loving Bodies 1 & 2″ — July 8-28, 2006 / venue: Cruel/Loving Bodies 1 @ 14/F, Goethe-Gallery; Cruel/Loving Bodies 2 @ 5/F, The Pao Gallery; Hong Kong Arts Centre / works from 10 artists from HK, China and UK, employing various media including painting and drawing, sculpture and ceramic, photography, video and performance to reflect upon the interrelated issues of gender and body, particularly in the context of China or the Chinese diaspora. These artists seek to challenge a dichotomous East/West border, grapple with the question of Chinese identity in different contexts. Their art represents social and historical gender-biased cruelty inflicted upon the body, which is a sensual site of love and subversive possibilities. Curators: Stella (Wing-yan) FONG, Zoe (Ming-wai) SHEK and Sasha Su-Ling WELLAND / Web Archive ： http://home.earthlink.net/~swelland/homepage/id1.html