Guest Speakers

Linda Chiu-han LAI, historian, writer and research-based interdisciplinary artist, devotes herself to intermedia arts, Critical Theory and media archaeology, as meaningful extension of her PhD training in Cinema Studies.

She persists in artistic creation as the practice of theory, rooted in a dynamic feminist sensibility. A critical researcher in the History of Everyday Life, she seeks organological views of art’s relation to other existential domains. The two-arm emphasis on theory and artistic experiments results in some inter-disciplinary courses she has designed in her teaching at the School of Creative Media (SCM 1998-2023): on the criticality of micro/meta narrativity, new materialism’s contribution to media archaeology, automatism and rule-based creativity in pre-digital and digital artmaking, visual ethnography, sound art, and generative art & literature. She has also designed, at SCM, Hong Kong’s first university-level courses in visual ethnography (2007 undergraduate, 2012 graduate level), sound art, and generative art & literature. 

By 2021, she has completed two editions of her video Manifesto project, seeking a deeper view of HK’s media art practices. Floating Projects (FP, 2015- ) is her participatory art experiment on sustainability as “collectives.” Her concern for art-tech dialogues prompted her to found the Writing Machine Collective (2004- ), a research base new media art series evolving into educational programs, then epitomized in her curatorial experiment “Algorithmic Art: Shuffling Space and Time” (2018-19).

Her works have been acquired by M+ (2019), Video Bureau (2015), and the Power Station of Art. She was “Artist of the Year 2017 – Media Art” (ADC). In 2022, online video zine D-Normal/V-Essay was a winner of Ars Electronica’s “State of the ART(ists) Initiative (2022, Linz).

Full bio can be available at
https://www.floatingprojectscollective.net/collective/linda

Wong Tin Yan was born in Hong Kong. He graduated from the Department of Fine Arts, Chinese University of Hong Kong, in 2000. As a sculptor, he likes to collect discarded wood pellets to create sculptures. His work was collected by the Hong Kong Museum of Art and local and overseas private collectors. In addition to being active in local and overseas exhibitions, he has been working in art education for more than twenty years. Besides, he had cooperated with world-famous brands on various crossover projects. Moreover, he had finished public art projects in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Japan, and Taiwan. In recent years, he has been teaching many workshops in schools from Kindergartens to Universities.

Meanwhile, he loves to share his opinion and experiences via different platforms. In 2017, he set up a new independent art space, “Form Society” at Tai Nan Street, Sham Shui Po. Starting from 2020, he was commissioned by M+ Rover to create a series of education programs.

http://www.wongtinyan.com
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Law Yuk-mui is a multidisciplinary artist and art educator; currently lives and works between Japan(Chiba) and Hong Kong. Using “expanded cinema” as her artistic expression, and adopting the methodology of field study and collecting, she often intervenes the mundane space and daily life of the city and catches the physical traces of history, psychological pathways of human, the marks of time and the political power in relation to geographic space. Sound is the anchor point in Law’s creation. Her interests comprise of the political and cultural rhetoric of sound, with sound as bodily memory, and orchestrate the interplay among sound, text and visual.

Law Yuk-mui have been named to Foundwork Artist Prize 2021 short list, and received The Awards for young artist (media art category) of Hong Kong Arts development Awards and the Excellence Award (Media Art Category) of The 23rd ifva Awards in 2018. Major exhibitions included: Song of the Exile, Scene II , Jimei x Arles Discovery Award; Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Xiamen, China 2024; Nomadic, Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand 2024; State-less, Two Temple Place, London, United Kingdom 2023; I Talk like a River , Sound Forms 2022, Bounding in Void,Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong 2022; Michikusa: Walks with the Unknown, Art Tower Mito, Japan 2020; From whence the waves came, Parasite’s Booth in Art Basel Hong Kong 2018. Portrait: please see attachment Related Image: I’ve also attached an image for you promotion if needed The black and white seascape photograph was taken from the seashore of Stanley, Hong Kong, in 2017 — the place where my parents illegally landed in 1979. The photograph is embroidered with the line: “She had been seasick and vomiting all the while, a bitterness lingered in her mouth,” an excerpt from an interview with my mother in 2018. This work marks my initial attempt to give form to the abstract emotions and embodied experience of a diasporic journey through art.

*Law will be hosting her session online via Zoom.

https://www.lawyukmui.com/

Jeremy Ip, currently based in Hong Kong, holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts from Hong Kong Baptist University and a Master of Arts in Painting from Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts London. His practice centers on oil and mixed-media painting, exploring painterly concepts, observing shifts in artistic practice, and engaging with various forms of resistance. He extends these ideas into the art space WURE AREA, where he often works. His artworks have been exhibited in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taiwan, and London, and are featured in private collections.
(Photo credit: Jerry Peng)

IG: @wurearea, @iwcpaint

With the philosophy of “connecting communities through art, inspiring reflection through creation, exploring urban memory and humanistic care, and nurturing observation and creativity” to make creation.

Through urban observation and material exploration to explore a way to create mixed-media artwork.Curious about the traces of time, the connection of different materials, and the relationship between daily objects and people. He create works in a wide range of mediums, including Land art, sculpture, video, print, community art, installation, etc.Through which viewers can discover my alternative viewpoints of the city. His works have been exhibited in Germany, Finland, Australia, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand and China, and published in Ming Pao Sunday Life.

In 2025, he curated his first public and community art exhibition “Pop Up Playground" at Anchor Street Playground, Tai Kok Tsui, he is also a member of the creative charity ”HASS Lab”.  

https://kevinling.hk