Dr. RODRIGUEZ, Hector 羅海德
Academic Qualifications:
PhD (New York University)
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Background:
Hector Rodriguez is a digital artist and new media theorist. His digital animation Res Extensa received the award for best digital work in the 2004 Hong Kong Art Biennial, and has been shown in India, China, Germany, and Spain. His game system CoPerspective was a finalist in the Games Meets Graphics competition at Eurographics 2006, held in Vienna, Austria. His essays about film theory/history and digital art have been published in Screen, Cinema Journal, and Game Studies, and he has participated in various art, game, and technology conferences. His most recent work of software art, DeadCode, premiered in the 2009 Electro-Fringe festival.
He was Artistic Director of the Microwave International Media Art Festival, where he has also taught workshops on Java programming and organized an exhibition on art, games, and playing. He is currently Associate Professor at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, where he teaches courses in Visual Studies, Contemporary Art, Play and Game Studies, Film Theory, Computation, and Critical Theory.
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Professional Expertise / Research Interests:
- Game Studies
- Digital and Generative Art
- Experimental media art history/theory
- Software art
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Major Research / Projects Completed and in Progress:
| Investigators |
Project Title |
Research Period |
Funding Source |
| RODRIGUEZ, Hector |
Mathematics in the Creative Arts |
Jun03-Jun04 |
TDF |
| RODRIGUEZ, Hector and WONG, Mike |
Alternatives to Photorealism: Divergent Perspective and Digital Imaging |
Mar03-Jun03 |
SMA |
| RODRIGUEZ, Hector and WONG, Mike |
Unseen Spaces |
Jan00-Aug01 |
TDG (CityU) |
| RODRIGUEZ, Hector |
Evolution and Interactivity in the Arts |
Aug01-Dec01 |
SMA |
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Publications:
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| 2002 |
"The fragmented Commonplace," Jenny Lau, ed. Multiple Modernities: Cinema
and Popular Media in Transcultural East Asia (Temple University Press)
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| 2001 |
"Homelessness and Self-disclosure: Evans Chan's 'Minor' Cinema," Cinemaya:
The Asian Film Quaterly 54/55 (Winter/Spring, 2002): 20-25. Also published
in: Evans Chan, ed. The Map of Sex and Love (Hong Kong: Ching Man).
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| 2001 |
"The Emergence of the Hong Kong New Wave," in Esther Yau (ed), At Full Speed: Hong Kong Cinema in the Transnational Era (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press), 53-69.
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| Feb 2001 |
"Electronic Art: An Overview" and "Education in a Digital Age," The Development of Electronic Media Art in Hong Kong. Research Project Commissioned by The Hong Kong Arts Development Council, 4-20, 27-32.
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| Fall 1999 |
"Organizational Hegemony in the Hong Kong Cinema," Post Script 19:1, 107-119.
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| Fall 1998 |
"Questions of Chinese Aesthetics: Space and Narrative Form in the Cinema
of King Hu," Cinema Journal 38:1, 73-97.
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| 1997 |
"Ideology and film culture," in Richard Allen and Murray Smith (eds), Film
Theory and Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 260-81.
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| 1997 |
"Problems of Chinese Aesthetics", Film Art (Bimonthly publication of
the China Film Association) 6: 56-71. [In Chinese]
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| Spring 1997 |
"Hong Kong popular culture as an interpretive arena: the Huang
Feihong film series." Screen 38: 1: 1-24.
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Consultancy / Community / Professional Services / Awards:
Creative and curatorial work:
| 2003 |
FRUZTUM, an interactive media work exploring nonstandard projection
systems, with Mike Wong.
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| Jun 2002 |
Co-curator. Someone Has Done it Before.
Art exhibit at the Para/Site Art Gallery.
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| Feb 2002 |
Family Secrets. "Social Club" exhibit, Para/Site Art Gallery, Hong Kong.
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| 2001 |
Exquisite Corpse. Video commissioned by Radio Television of Hong Kong (RTHK).
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Presentations:
| Nov 2002 |
"Collective Forces: A Reassessment of the Situationist International,"
Temporal Being: Microwave International Media Art Festival 2002, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
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| Oct. 2001 |
"Arts Education and the Decolonization of Everyday Life,"
Contemporary Asian Popular Culture (Conference organized by the Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University and New York's East Asia Regional Adivsory Panel of the Social Sciences Research Council), Hong Kong.
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| Sep 2001 |
"Art and Digital Culture"
Transcode: Microwave International Media Art Festival 2001, Hong Kong City Hall
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| Summer 2001 |
"Evolution and Interactivity in the Arts."
Research Project funded through the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.
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| Feb 2001 |
The Development of Electronic Media Arts,
report commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council's Film and Media Arts Committee. Project Leader: Prof. Christine Choy.
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| Jan 2001 |
Public lecture: "Film and Landscape.",
City Festival, The Goethe Institut Hong Kong |
Award:
| 1985 |
Kodak Award for best cinematography,
EQUILIBRIUM (16 mm. short film). |
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