Cross City Experience # 5 ‘ Welcome Hong Kong ‘
Curated with the assistance of Kim Xupei
This was an artist networking project which situated new media artists who currently practice in Hong Kong and Bashkim Isai from Brisbane. Each artist displayed their practice portfolio online, with links to their archived work and writings. There is a large area for new media art to develop in Brisbane, and the online showcase was a chance to spark an awareness for such mediums and establish a network into Hong Kong’s new media emerging art scene.
Artists :
Bashkim Isai (Brisbane) www.bashkim.com.au
Eric Sui (Hong Kong) www.ericsiuart.com
João Vasco Paiva (Hong Kong) www.joaovascopaiva.com
Chai Sai Ho (Hong Kong) www.st-saiho.com
A Peacemax Tree from Eric Siu on Vimeo.
Eric Sui
“A Peacemax Tree” is an interactive tree made of motors and laser-equipped toy guns. When nobody is around, this violent tree lets its guard down and dances to “White Christmas”. But, when you enter its territory, the tree becomes nervous, and all guns point at you!
experiments on the notation of shapes _ single channel version 2010 from Joao Paiva on Vimeo.
João Vasco Paiva
João Vasco Paiva is a portuguese artist currently living in Hong Kong.His work is based on the exploration of sound and visuals produced through the isolation of physical patterns.He uses digital and analog systems to depict scores in everyday life situations and re arranges them as sound and visual compositions.He presents his work as live performances, single channel videos and audio visual installations.
Joao graduated from a Fine Arts Degree in Porto Art School with a special focus in painting. In 2006 he was awarded with a 2 years scholarship from Fundaçao Oriente a Portuguese Foundation that supports young artists in Asia, He obtained a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Media in the School of Creative Media City University of Hong Kong.
Choi Sai Ho
Choi Sai Ho is an electronic musician and audio-visual artist. S.T. is his solo project. Sai Ho received classical music training since childhood. His works cover different types of music genres including electronica, downtempo, IDM, avant-garde, experimental, etc. He was selected as the first Hong Kong Chinese musician to join the Red Bull Music Academy 2006 in Melbourne, Australia. In 2008, Sai Ho was selected as the number 8 of the Hong Kongs Top 20 Musicians by Hong Kong Time-Out Magazine. He collaborates with different kinds of artists, musicians and directors, and keeps working actively on audio-visual performances, live gigs, remixes, experimental short films, music score for films, etc. Looking for possibility, variety, diversity.
Bashkim Isai
Bash is an Interaction Designer in Brisbane who specialises in Tangible Media Art – the augmentation of technology over everyday objects to increase their meaning.
Exhibition items which he has been involved in include the Meet Eater (http://www.meeteater.com/) a real life plant which consumes social interaction through a Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/meeteater) – exhibiting at The Edge at the State Library of Queensland (http://www.edgeqld.org.au/). His portfolio also includes Commodore (http://www.commodore-game.com/). The battleships-like game exposes the hidden realms of a military tactician by utilising a plotting table to visualise a naval battle. “Tacticians” can command a battalion to advance or retreat in order to gain a competitive edge and defeat their opponent.