Position:	Associate Professor
Phone:	2788 7056
E-mail:	SMHECT@cityu.edu.hk
Bldg Rm:	AC-Y2637

Academic Qualifications:

PhD (New York University)

Background:

Dr Rodriguez received his doctoral degree in the field of cinema studies. Most of his early research concerned Asian (Japanese, Chinese) film history and the philosophy of film. He has been invited to speak at the Anthology Film Archives (New York), the Japan Society (New York), the Microwave Media Arts Festival (Hong Kong), the Hong Kong International Film Festival, as well as many international film theory conferences. More recently, his research has moved in the direction of new media art. He has presented papers about the implications of digital culture, the teaching of new technologies, and the modern art movement known as the "Situationist International". His video work has been shown at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, the Para/Site Art Gallery, and the Hong Kong City Hall. It has been broadcast by Radio Television Hong Kong. He has also co-curated an art exhibit at the Para/Site Art Gallery in Hong Kong. He is currently conducting research about the philosophical implications of new media art, and about the interface between art and evolutionary theory.

Professional Expertise / Research Interests:

Film and philosophy Interactive / Installation art The art and politics of the situationist International Asian Film History

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
Publications:
2002	"The fragmented Commonplace," Jenny Lau, ed. Multiple Modernities: Cinema and Popular Media in Transcultural East Asia (Temple University Press)
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).
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.
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.
Fall 1999	"Organizational Hegemony in the Hong Kong Cinema," Post Script 19:1, 107-119.
Fall 1998	"Questions of Chinese Aesthetics: Space and Narrative Form in the Cinema of King Hu," Cinema Journal 38:1, 73-97.
1997	"Ideology and film culture," in Richard Allen and Murray Smith (eds), Film Theory and Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 260-81.
1997	"Problems of Chinese Aesthetics", Film Art (Bimonthly publication of the China Film Association) 6: 56-71. [In Chinese]
Spring 1997	"Hong Kong popular culture as an interpretive arena: the Huang Feihong film series." Screen 38: 1: 1-24.

Consultancy / Community / Professional Services / Awards:

Creative and curatorial work:

2003	FRUZTUM, an interactive media work exploring nonstandard projection systems, with Mike Wong.
Jun 2002	Co-curator. Someone Has Done it Before. Art exhibit at the Para/Site Art Gallery.
Feb 2002	Family Secrets. "Social Club" exhibit, Para/Site Art Gallery, Hong Kong.
2001	Exquisite Corpse. Video commissioned by Radio Television of Hong Kong (RTHK).

Presentations:

Nov 2002	"Collective Forces: A Reassessment of the Situationist International," Temporal Being: Microwave International Media Art Festival 2002, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
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.
Sep 2001	"Art and Digital Culture" Transcode: Microwave International Media Art Festival 2001, Hong Kong City Hall
Summer 2001	"Evolution and Interactivity in the Arts." Research Project funded through the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.
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.
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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