Date: Monday 15th September 2014
Time: 12:30pm-6pm
Location: Level 3, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong, 18 Tat Hong Avenue, Kowloon Tong.
Contact: jamesimi@cityu.edu.hk
To mark Hong Kong’s 4th Large Scale Media Art Exhibition, “Fleeting Light”, the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong will be holding a free afternoon Symposium: “Art Casting Light and Shadow in the City”. The symposium aims to explore the ramifications of ‘light’ when used in participatory artworks, or when used for works for urban contexts. Themes include artists’ responses to Hong Kong and the phenomenon of the ‘lit-up’ city, the responsibilities of the artist when playing with light, notions of site-specificity, ways to understand and interpret the possible obtrusiveness of light in artworks, the nature of public involvement in large-scale works, and the ways that light can be used to highlight an absence of light, or to create dark.
For this symposium, artists Jim Campbell, Leung Mee-Ping and Samson Young will discuss new works that they have conceived for the “Fleeting Light” programme. The symposium will include talks from media artists and project curators Jeffrey Shaw and Maurice Benayoun, as well as lectures on form and public space from artist Marysia Lewandowska, and architect and urbanist, Colin Fournier. The symposium will be held in the Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, where a free retrospective exhibition of Jim Campbell’s work will be on display.
To confirm your attendance, please email jamesimi@cityu.edu.hkwith your name and telephone number.
Bus to Jim Campbell’s works on display in Central: We have a limited number of places available on a free bus from the Creative Media Centre to Central Hong Kong, where two of Jim Campbell’s works are to be displayed. The bus will leave at 6:45pm. If you would like to book a place on the bus, please emailjamesimi@cityu.edu.hk
*Dedicated parking in unavailable for this event. The nearest MTR station is Kowloon Tong.
Art_Casting_Light_and_Shadow_in_the_City__Fleeting_Light__Symposium_schedule.pdf
Fleeting_Light__Symposium_Guest_Speakers_bios_and_abstracts.pdf
