ISEA2016 , Documenttion of commissioned art work for Open Sky Gallery, HONG KONG
shot on location in Hong Kong May 2016Superluminal was a moving image installation situated on the LED public screen facia of the ICC tower in Hong Kong screened nightly from May to December 2016
“Ours is a world in vertigo. It is a world that swarms with technological mediation, interlacing our daily lives with abstraction, virtuality, and complexity.”
Cuboniks, Laboria, Xenofeminism: A politics for alienation, 2015.
The fractured drift of the perpetual loop and harsh regression of the gif animation with its belligerent stutter both in their own way present new modalities, ruptures in our understanding of time, new paradigms, variant ontologies, recursive action, indefinite progression, endless reiteration. High frequency trading algorithms, twitter feeds, data flow, meme generators, click streams; modernity hums with relentless aetheric data coursing through the veins of our cities.
OPEN SKY GALLERY ISEA2016 Hong Kong 香港 Project for ICC SEA2016 Hong Kong in partnership with the OPEN SKY PROJECT – a collaborative project between City University of Hong Kong’s School of Creative Media and International Commerce Centre (Sun Hung Kai Properties) – offered an opportunity for artists to present their video projects on the 77,000 sqm of urban media screen that makes up the façade of the highest tower in Hong Kong : the ICC (484m). The open call was a joint project between ISEA2016 SCM Open Sky Project and Human Vibrations exhibition/HKADC.
Anonymized artworks were reviewed by a board of 11 international expert juries for 6 Official selections.
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer
Fly High – Time Flies
Dorothy Wong, Chung Ka Hei & Pan Shi Hang
City Paths
Clea T. Waite
Big Moon Hong Kong
Genetic Moo
Open Sky Etude
Marcel Schwittlick & Thomas Heidtmann
Berlin Calling
Luke Pendrell
Superluminal
BOARD OF JURIES
Doo Eun Choi
Independent curator and art consultant; Visiting faculty at Parsons the New School for Design
Nina Colosi
Curator and founder of Streaming Museum
Caroline Ha Thuc
Curator and art writer; Curator of the Human Vibration exhibition Hong Kong
Ellen Pau
Independent cinematographer, curator, teacher and filmmaker; Co-founder of Videotage, Microwave International New Media Arts Festival
Christiane Paul
Associate Professor at The New School; Adjunct Curator of new media arts at Whitney Museum of American Art
Susa Pop
Urban Media curator, founder of Public Art Lab (PAL) – Connecting Cities, Media Facades Festivals Berlin 2008 and Europe 2010
Jeffrey Shaw
Media artist; Artistic Director of ISEA2016; Chair Professor, School of Creative Media, CityU HK
Tony W M Tang
Deputy Project Director of Harbour Vantage Management Ltd., Deputy Director of Architectural Design, Sun Hung Kai, and Vice President of Hong Kong Institute of Architects
Tanya Toft
Curator, researcher and lecturer on Urban digital art; Curatorial Advisor for Verve Cultural in Sao Paolo; Associate Curator for Streaming Museum
Li Zhenhua
Curator, Art Basel Hong Kong video program
Maurice Benayoun
Head of Open Sky Project, Chair of ISEA2016 Special events;Media artist; Curator and Professor at School of Creative Media, CityU HK
Jon Collyer: remix of ‘Ether’ soundtrack, audio
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