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Dr. LAI, Chiu Han Linda 黎肖嫻

Position: Assistant Professor
Phone:
 2788 7062
E-mail:
 SMLLAI@cityu.edu.hk
Bldg Rm:
 AC-Y2635

Academic Qualifications:

Ph.D. Cinema Studies, New York University, New York, USA

M.A., Communication-print journalism, Wheaton College Graduate School, Illinois, USA

B.A. (Hons.), Major - English Language & Literature, Minor - Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Background:

"The most fearful thing in life is when I find all the words I need to put my emotions,"says Elviar, the disturbed protagonist in Fassbinder's The Year with 13 Moons. Perhaps that's why Fassbinder devoted himself to drama and the movie images? Perhaps words are times too bleak and blatant? Perhaps...Nevertheless, Linda is combining both images and words in her teaching in SCM.

I once made a search for fun to trace the genealogical origin of the Lai's. To my surprise, my journey ends up with the first leader of the known Chinese administrative period I studied in my secondary school Chinese history classes -- Huang Di 黃帝, and down the line Confucius 孔夫子 in the brother-lineage! To be the daughter of the "real" Fathers in Chinese civilization -- wow!! Absolute irony indeed for a woman like me who's fought her life through resisting patriarchal aggression!!!

Teaching Experience:

Aug 1998 - Present

Assistant Professor, School of Creative Media (SCM), City University of Hong Kong (full-time)

Leader of the Critical Intermedia Laboratory (one of the 4 studios in SCM's undergrad programs)

Link:   http://sweb.cityu.edu.hk/cil


Teaching areas:

Narrative exploration; film history and theory, cultural studies, space and urbanity, generative art and literature, creative writing

Courses taught since 2004:

Micro Narratives http://sweb.cityu.edu.hk/sm2202

Generative Art & Literature http://sweb.cityu.edu.hk/sm2220

Space & Narratives (formerly Spatialized narratives) http://sweb.cityu.edu.hk/sm3132

Creative Writing http://sweb.cityu.edu.hk/sm1012

Sonic Arts and the History of Sounds and Noises
http://sweb.cityu.edu.hk/sm4143

Visual Ethnography & Creative Intervention

Film Narrative: History & Theory I & II [1999 to 2006]

Cultures & Identities [2001 to 2005]
http://sweb.cityu.edu.hk/sm3112
Sep 1997 - Jun 1998   Assistant Lecturer, Communication Studies Dept., School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University (full-time)
Fall 1996, 1997 & 1998   Visiting Instructor (part-time), the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts

Course taught: Cultural Analysis and Film, Liberal Arts Programme
Jan 1996 - May 1996   Teaching Assistant at Cinema Studies, New York University

Course taught: Language of Television

Media-related Experience:

Nov 1996 - Mar 1997   Chinese Editor, World Cinema section

21st International Film Festival of Hong Kong (1997)
**duties include copywriting for the booking folder; editing the main catalogue; writing and editing interview articles for the Hong Kong Panorama 96-97.
Nov 1993 - Aug 1994   Correspondent from New York / reporting, feature writing
Sunday Chronicle 《星期天匯報》, Paramount Printing.
Oct 1991 - Aug 1992   Feature Editor / investigative reporting, feature writing and editing Capital 《資本雜誌》, Capital Communications Corp.
Oct 1989 - Aug 1991   Staff Writer; promoted to Feature Writer Oct 1990 / translation (Chinese to English), general reporting and feature writing
Hongkong, Inc. (English-language edition of Capital), Capital Communications Corporation.

Professional Expertise / Research Interests: interdisciplinary dialogues

  • Issues in contemporary and experimental art; avant-garde cinema; generative art and literature, automatism in art and literature

  • Narrative exploration in new media, such as hyper- and cyber-textuality, database narrative, spatiality, rhizomic structures, ergodicity and complexity, generative art and literature

  • Cultural historiography

  • Film histories and theory; Early Cinema, Italian cinema, Chinese cinemas, Modernisms and realisms in cinema, narrativity

  • Documentary films: history and theory; visual anthropology, visual ethnography

  • Critical theories and cultural studies; everyday life dramaturgy, everyday creativity, urban and city spaces, topography of things and urban surfaces, ethno-methodologies, performativity, self techniques, governmentality and instrumental rationality

  • Michel Foucault, Michel de Certeau, Erving Goffman, Henri Lefebvre, Antonio Gramsci, Gilles Deleuze, Walter Benjamin

Major Research / Projects Completed and in Progress:

University Funding
Title Project Title
Research Period
 Funding Source

Principal Investigator (with Wesley Tang)

 Creativity in Practice: Teaching & Learning Outside Classroom Feb 2007 to Aug 2008 TDG (Teaching Development Grant 2006-8)

Principal Investigator

 Digital & New Media Arts: A Study Tour in Germany for Students at SCM's Critical Intermedia Laboratory (CIL) Jan - Jun 2007 QCLF (Quality Campus Life Fund)
Principal Investigator The Writing Machine
Jan 2003-Feb 2004
 DAG (City U of HK)
Co-Investigator (with Theresa Mikuriya) Immersive Poetry
Jan 2003-Feb 2004
 DAG (City U of HK)
Principal Investigator The Crypto-glyph Machine
Jan 2003-Jun 2003
 RCMT Media Arts Group


Other Funded Research
Title Project Title
Research Period
 Funding Source

Research Supervisor/
Curator/
Artist

 The Writing Machine Collective edition 2 Jan 2006-Jul 2007 Creative New Media Arts Projects 2005 "新媒體藝術創意計畫" from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC)
Curator/Artist The Writing Machine Collective edition 1
Jun 2004-Aug 2004
 Exhibition grant / Film/video, HKADC
Research Coordinator
(with Christine Choy, Steve Fore, Hector Rodriguez, Ip Yuk-yiu and Nancy Tong)		 The Development of Electronic Media Art in Hong Kong

Commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council
Completed in Feb 2001
 HKADC

Publications:

Academic / refereed

In Preparation "Map Narratives: space as virtual and material history, HK cinema 1934," anthologized in Reflexions: Film, Literature and Culture, ed. Manju Jain (McMillan, India, 2006).
2007 "Wither the Walker Goes: Spatial Practices and Negative Poetics in in 1990s Chinese Urban Cinema," anthologized in The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the 21st Century, ed. Zhang Zhen (Duke University Press, Feb 2007).
2003 [In Chinese] 〈從長篇電視劇《真情》出發的日常生活網路探究：三個本地主婦的"文化資本"應用〉("Surveying the network of connectivity evolving from the reception of popular TV drama series True Love: a study of three local housewives' mobilization of their cultural capital"), Gendering Hong Kong, co-published by Centre for Asian Studies (HKU) and Oxford University Press (China), 2004. [The essay first appeared in載於新婦女協進會：〈電視接收研究：《真情》〉,《香港婦女檔案（第二版）》（香港：新婦女協進會，2003） (Hong Kong Women: Case Studies; 2nd edition); Hong Kong: Society for the Advancement of Women Rights, 2003.]

Study guide for the essay: link here

2001 "Film and Enigmatization: Nostalgia, Nonsense, and Remembering," anthologized in At Full Speed: Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World, ed. Esther C.M. Yau, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press), 231-50.
Nov 2000 "HK Cinema in the 1930s: Docility, Social Hygiene, Pleasure-seeking & the Consolidation of the Film Industry," in Screening the Past (an electronic refereed journal on film and media arts published in Australia), issue #11. Officially Upload on November 1, 2000 at: link here

Sponsored Publications:

Oct 2006 〈明和電機｣的100伏特電流說明單純的表演藝術不再〉（《信報》2006年10月28日）(a review on Maywa Denki Mechatronica’s performance in Hong Kong published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on October 28, 2006) For a longer, full version of the same article in Chinese, see: link here

Jun 2006 〈跨媒體的教學空間〉，《跨界文化教育對談---鼓勵文化跨界對話 尋找另類教育實踐》，香港嶺南大學文化研究系。
2005 "Between 'I' and 'You': an Architextual Construction of Li Ngaw's Broadcast Drama as Film Adaptation," in The Hong Kong-Guangdong Film Connection, ed. Wong Ainling (Hong Kong: the Hong Kong Film Archive, 2005), pp. 184-201.
[Also in Chinese version] "李我/你、我：故事體外裏縱橫的眾聲喧鬧"，《粤港電影因缘》，黄爱玲编（香港電影资料馆，2005年），158-172页。
Mar - Apr 2005 General Editor for digital catalogue (on CD-ROM), Take a ST/Roll: donut fantasies in the wake of the 21st century, for the art exhibition "Take a ST/Roll" (March-April 2005); also author for article "Generative Experiences: art-making as procedures and classification" and co-author with Kongkee and Reine Wong for "The Struggle to Manipulate Data as an Art Form: Problem-solving in the creative process of the Donut / Face: the database"; sponsored by ADC.
Feb 2004 "Early Cinema Aesthetics: a Contextual View" ("早期電影的美學與觀賞特色"), Hong Kong Film Archive Newsletter (Quarterly), February 2004. Read article: link here

Nov 2003 "Serial Thinking: the Infinity and Limits of Modernism; Extension from Danny Yung's Memorandum of the Rock" ("序列式思考：現代主義的無窮與極限；延伸榮念曾的《石頭記備忘錄》"), in From Close. From Afar, a publication issued to accompany the exhibition "Tree/Man: Danny Yung's Solo Exhibition," by 1aSpace.
Jun 2003 [in Chinese] "視象的感性直撲" ("Affective Vectors of the Moving Images"),《藝評》Artism Bimonthly June 2003, by Hong Kong: International Association of Theatre Critics (Hong Kong).
May 2003 - Jun 2003   "Retrieving an Old Thesis: Gazing at the Screen," keynote essay for the "Third Text: Image + Media 03," an international experimental media art festival, School of Creative Media, the City University of Hong Kong. (The piece appears in the program brochure of the event as well as individual handouts for visitors.)
Apr 2003 "Multiple voices, diverse cultures, FIPRESCI@Hong Kong: Nominees & Winners" (International Film Critics Alliance) official web-site. To read full article, go to: link here

Apr 2003 "開放性文本 --《平安米》"/ "Rice Distribution: an Open Document" in Hong Kong Indie Films @27th HKIFF (Hong Kong: Ying E Chi), pp. 60-1.
Mar 2001 - Apr 2001   "Big Road: an Eclectic Text," (on Shanghai film classics Da Lu directed by Sun Yu, 1934), in Fifty Chinese Classics, proceedings for the Hong Kong International Film Festival.
Apr 2000 "Film Development Fund: Re-vision for Patchwork" (an interview with Christine Choy, Member of Projects Vetting Committee, FDF), for Asian Independent, a component of the International Film Festival of HK.
Sep 1999 " 創意文化=創意技術、創意工程？" ,《傳媒透視》[ 香港∶香港電臺]。 ["Creative Culture = Creative technology, Creative Engineering?" in Media Digest (Hong Kong: RTHK), pp. 12-13.] To read full article, go to: link here

1998 "Home is Where the Heart is: an Interview with Wong Kar-wai and Christopher Doyle on Happy Together," Hong Kong Panorama 97-98 (the 22nd Hong Kong International Film Festival) (Hong Kong: Urban Council), pp. 33-35.
Dec 1997 "Orality in the Context of Hong Kong Film History," Hong Kong Film Archive Newsletter no. 2. To read article, visit: link here

Jul 1997 - Aug 1997   [in Chinese] Two interviews: with film director Stanley Kwan on Yang and Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema and Shu Kei on A Queer Story in Film Appreciation Journal 《電影欣賞》 (Taipei) no. 88. The article can also be read here: link here

1997 "Once Upon a Time in Triad Society 2: an Interview with Cha Chuen-yee," Hong Kong Panorama 96-97 (the 21st Hong Kong International Film Festival) (Hong Kong: Urban Council), pp. 18-19.
Mar 1997 "Nostalgia & Nonsense: Two Instances of Commemorative Practices in Hong Kong Cinema in the Early 1990s," ["懷舊"與"無厘頭":九十年代初香港電影中兩個歷史紀慶行動] anthologized in Fifty Years of Electric Shadows 光影繽紛五十年, proceedings for the "Hong Kong Cinema Retrospective," 21st International Film Festival of Hong Kong. The essay was revised and re-published in Film Appreciation Journal《電影欣賞》 (Taipei) no. 88, July/August, 1997.
Jul 1994 "Hong Kong cinema 1990's as (post-)colonial resistance," AHKCUS Quarterly (the Alliance of Hong Kong Chinese in the United States) no. 14; special issue titled "Hong Kong Media Facing 1997."
1993 "Notes on the Protestant View of Culture via Contemporary Popular Media Arts 現代影視藝術與基督教文化," co-authored with Jeremy Yung, in Arts, Faith & Life 藝術信仰人生, proceedings for the forum "Christianity and Culture," China Graduate School of Theology Press.

Journalistic Publications (selections from '97-'98) :

Jun 1998 "半生緣的世界觀：許鞍華訪談錄",《書城》月刊 (上海三聯),98年6月. ["The World View of Eighteen Springs: an Interview with Ann Hui," The Reading Town (Shanghai).] [Original interview written for Hong Kong Panorama 97-98, Urban Council, Hong Kong.]

May 1998 "文學、電影：交叉空間中的張愛玲",《文匯電影時報》周報 (上海文匯報),第657期,1998年5月. ["Literature and Film: Zhang Ailing in the Space of Intersection," Wen Hui Film Times (Shanghai), no. 657.]
Feb 1998 "女人拍的好戲給誰看？",《信報》 (文化版),1998年2月20日,第32頁. ["Women Made Good Films – for Whom?" Hong Kong Economic Journal, p. 32.]

Books:

2007 Editor / Contributing Writer for [Re-]Fabrication: Choi Yan-chi's 30 years, Paths of interdisciplinarity in art(1975-2005) 《又，物聚 － 蔡仞姿跨媒介創作鍊歷的三十年》, a 333-page, bi-lingual book based on a 2-year research for Para/Site Art Space’s "Hong Kong Artists in the 1980s" series, supported by the HK Arts Development Council, published January 2007. For details and related activities: http://www.para-site.org.hk/yanchi/
2005 Editor/Contributing Artist & Writer for A Matter of Ownership: a bilateral Exchange between Para/Site (Hong Kong) and The Substation (Singapore) 《我城我城：重塑空間、演說歷史》 (Hong Kong: Para/Site Art Space, 2005), produced with funding from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. 178 pages.
Jan 2004 Crypto-glyph: Dialogues in Many Tongues in the Hidden Crevices of an Open City 《象文‧ 文象：大街上兩張嘴巴在絮絮叨叨兩雙眼睛在找月光光》 (a 288-page book exploring possible dialogs between the written text and photography, 9" x 8-1/2" in size in full color); funded by the Philippe Charriol Foundation (Asia). See: http://www.pcf.org.hk/html/CHI/B/c_raffle.htm

1994 Mei jie guomin 《 媒介國民》, co-authored with Jeremy Yung; Hong Kong Excellence Books.

Academic Conference Presentation:

Apr 2006 [by invitation] "Micro-Narratives: invented time and space in video" (lecture + video work presentation), presented at the conference, "The Film Scene: cinema, the arts, and social change," April 21-22, 2006, organized by the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Music, and the Centre of Asian Studies, Hong Kong.
Mar 2006 [refereed] "Constructivist Animation for a Disappearing City: Hong Kong's Mcdull series OR, Constructivist Animation as Archive: a visual ethnographer's site for cultural memory & dreams," paper presented at the 2006 Conference, The Society for Cinema and Media Studies, March 2-5, 2006, Vancouver, Canada.
Jun 2004 [refereed] "Journeys of the Self: a Digital Auto-ethnography," in the panel titled "Gendered Subjectivities Formation and the Everyday Life in Hong Kong," presented at the 5th Crossroads International Conference for Cultural Studies, at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.
Apr 2004 [by invitation] "Micro-narratives: experimental pedagogy for new screen contexts," at the "Hong Kong/Hollywood at the Borders: Alternative Perspectives, Alternative Cinemas,", University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Film Archive.
Mar 2004

 [by invitation] "Immersion and Interactivity in New Media Narrative," a talk to accompany the presentation of my creative work, "PUSH" (a digital interactive installation, Official Selection for the Hong Kong Art Biennial 2003, November 2003 to March 6, 2004) to the art and university community in Delhi, India, March 15, 2004, organized by the Indian International Centre.
Mar 2004 [by invitation] "Walking and Producing Heterotopia: a Spatialized Cinema History for Hong Kong," a paper presented at "Reflexions," an International Seminar on Film, Literature, and Culture, organized by the Department of English, University of Delhi, India.
Mar 2003 [refereed] "Slicing, Street-mapping, and Fractured Reality: a Spatial Approach to Cinema History for Hong Kong." Paper presented at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, New York City.
Mar 2001 [refereed] "City-roaming, Drifting and Micro-visions." A paper presented at "The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society in Transformation," co-organized by the New York University and Chinese Institute (New York).
Jun 1999 [by invitation] Discussant for two papers (Dr. Joseph Chan's paper on Disney's Mulan and Dr. Michael Curtin's on UFO's Comrades, Almost a Love Story) at the international conference titled "In Search of Boundaries: Communication, Nation-States and Cultural Identities" organized by the Department of Journalism and Communication and New Asia College, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Nov 1998 [refereed] "Transposition of the Self in Everyday Presentation along the Formation of a New Consumerist Popular Culture in the People's Republic of China." Paper delivered at the NCA (National Communication Association) Annual Convention 1998, New York City, USA.
Nov 1998 [refereed] "An Ethnographic Study of Five Hong Kong Housewives' Reception of the TVB Soap Series True Love 真情." Paper delivered at the Fourth Annual Conference of the David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies co-sponsored by the Ohio University and HK Baptist University titled "Asian Cultures at the Crossroads: an East-West Dialogue in the New World Order."
Apr 1997 [by invitation] "Nostalgia & Nonsense: a Critical Characterization of the Historiographic Discourse in HK Films in the Early 1990s." Paper delivered at the Conference on "the Hong Kong Cinema: Fifty Years of Electric Shadows," International Film Festival of Hong Kong, Urban Council.
Mar 1996 [refereed] "HK Cinema in the 1930s: Docility, Social Hygiene, Pleasure-seeking & the Consolidation of the Film Industry." Paper delivered at the annual Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Jun 1995 [by invitation] "The Burden of Cultural Criticism in Hong Kong 香港文化評論的幾個包袱." Paper delivered in the concluding panel at the Hong Kong Cultural Criticism Workshop, co-sponsored by the Cinema/Television Department and the Humanities Program, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong.
Mar 1995 [refereed] "Post-fifth Generation Mainland Chinese Cinema and Television: Struggle with the Popular." Paper delivered at the annual Society for Cinema Studies Conference, New York, New York, USA.
Nov 1994 [refereed] "Hong Kong Cinema in the 1990s: (Post-)Colonial Resistance via `Enigmatization.'" Paper delivered at the annual Ohio University Film Conference, Athens, Ohio, USA.

Creative Work (Selections):

"Who is Singing? – Donald, can you hear me?" 《誰在唱歌？…曾特首，你聽見我嗎？》, an interactive simple digital machine created with Lawrence Choi, presented at the physical exhibition of the Writing Machine Collective Edition 2, Jan 13 to Feb 8, 2007, at 1a space, Cattle Depot, Hong Kong. See work description, visit: link here

"All About Cinderella" (《灰姑娘誌異》), an ethnographic research-based video installation (two screens with textual play and book-making), 2006, for "Playground" 《好玩場》, a video/performance/installation art event curated by Phoebe Man for and at the Kao Yuan Art Center 高苑藝文中心, Ko Yuan University 高苑科技大學, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Dec 21, 2006 to Jan 21, 2007.

"Trespassing World Cities" (《搖擺過路人》), a 28-minute digital video, 2005. Official Selection for the documentary category of the 13th WOMEN MAKE WAVES 2006 film festival (Taipei) [第13屆女性影展（臺北）2006 - 紀錄片類].

"Melting Squares" (2005), a digital photo-collage, 1470 x 370 mm, presented to an art auction for the benefits of Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong, November 2005.

"Door Game" (《戲門》), a 26-minute digital video, 2005, a found-footage exercise on narrative games, anthologized in PLAY >: an experimental video/game project; funded by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. [screening history -]

* September/November, 2005: Hong Kong Art Centre and Habitus

** October 2006: Official Selection for the "Experimental Film" section of the WOMEN MAKE WAVES 2006 festival (Taipei) 2006 [第13屆女性影展（臺北）實驗片類].

"I Told Them My Camera Was On" 《六度分離∶準備好未？》 (digital video, experimental documentary, 2004/5, 24 minutes), part of the 4748 Moons and 13 Elliptical Years series (digital auto-ethnography, work in progress since 2003)
[screening history – ]

*June 2004:
Partially presented at the Crossroads 2004 International Cultural Studies Conference accompanied by a paper presentation titled "Journeys of the Self: Auto-ethnography as Narrative Enquiry," June, 2004, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, USA.

**May 2-10, 2005 / Oberhausen, Germany
World-premiered at the 51st International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (in competition) [51. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen], Germany

*** November 11-19, 2005 / Barcelona, Spain
European screenings 1: in the program "Film Diaries" [Dietarios filmados] at the 12th Festival of Independent Cinema at Barcelona [L'aternativa, 12è Festival de cinema independent de Barcelona]

****November 15-27, 2005 / Paris, France
European screenings 2: in the program "Consultation: Contemporary Documentaries" [consultation documentaries contemporains] in the Paris/Berlin Meeting for New Cinema and Contemporary Art [Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin…Nouveau cinema et art contemporain], Paris.

Participating Artist, "the Crypt-machine" and "Immersive Poetry", presented at The Writing Machine Collective 《文字機器創作集》, an exhibition exploring cyber-textuality and narrative with work presentations and seminars, co-presented with 1aSpace (art group), at the Cattle Depot, July 17 to August 7, 2004; supported by the Arts Development Council.

Concept/Author/General Editor, Crypto-glyph: Dialogues in Many Tongues in the Hidden Crevices of an Open City 《象文• 文象：大街上兩張嘴巴在絮絮叨叨兩雙眼睛在找月光光》, a +200-page book of dialogues between the written text and photography, a documentation of an 8-round photo-text dialogue, co-published with Theresa Mikuriya, funded by the Philippe Charriol Foundation, January 2004.

"PUSH: the Quest for a Voice, In Search of a Body" 「推」: 探索嗓音、搜尋身體, an interactive, digital installation in collaboration with Theresa Mikuriya, Official Selection for the Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition, November 20, 2003 to March 1, 2004.

[In Chinese] 〈斷流：一次象與文的錯軌獨白〉("A broken stream: a monologue of crossings between image and words"), a photo-text dialogue (seven photos with text), in Photo & Camera Review no. 316, June 2003 (Hong Kong).

[In Chinese] 〈在六秒和八分鐘之間〉"Between six seconds and eight minutes", a photo-text dialogue (three photos with text), in Photo & Camera Review no. 314, April 2003 (Hong Kong).

"One Take", a video wall-projection exploring the relation between sound and moving image, presented at the "Social Club" event, February 2002, Para/Site, Hong Kong.

"Crypto-glyph", a text-image dialogue series with Theresa Mikuriya, presented at the "Social Club" event, February 2002, Para/Site, Hong Kong.

A collage poem based on automatic writings, "the Art of Impermanence" 〈会过期的艺术〉, written for "Flash!!," the Annual Young Artists series of "1a Space," November 2000, published in the event's house program.

Curatorial Work:

The Writing Machine Collective, edition 2 《文字機器創作集》第二辑, supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council's Special Grant for New Media Arts, featuring 12 works by local artists, exhibited at the Cattle Depot (Jan 13 to Feb 8, 2007), with an additional virtual exhibition, seminar, artists’ talks and workshop series, January 2006 to July 2007, Hong Kong. Visit: http://www.writingmachine-collective.net/news.html  for full project.  For physical exhibition only, visit: http://www.writingmachine-collective.net/WMCe2/index.html

[Re-]Vision and [Re-]Fabrication: a double exhibition on Choi Yan-chi's 30 years: the struggle for inter-disciplinarity in art (1975-2005) at 1a space (November 1-30, 2006)) and Para/Site Art Space (Nov 10 to Dec 23, 2006), a research-based project as part of the "Hong Kong Artists of the 1980s" series.  For details, visit: http://www.para-site.org.hk/_pre/pre2006.htm

Micro-Narratives: invented time & space 《微叙事 : 此（那）时、那（此）地》, a video sculpture and installation art exhibition, with 108 short videos on 24 screens of varied sizes, co-organized by the Too Art Gallery and the Critical Intermedia Laboratory, April 8-28, Too Art Gallery, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong. For details, visit:  http://www.oneaspace.org.hk/ (for [Re-]Vision)and http://sweb.cityu.edu.hk/sm2202/inventedtimespace/ for ([Re-]Fabrication)

Curator for Video Program, Culture As Play, Microwave International Media Art Festival, Hong Kong, October 2005.

Co-Producer (with Justin Wong) for program "I Saw A Dot," a city-hunt game employing a PDA set that explores GPS technology, also a play with maps and critical urban intervention via creating situations, as part of the Microwave International Media Art Festival, Hong Kong, October 2005. Please visit: http://www.iseewhereyouare.com/

Curator & Research Supervisor for Take a ST/Roll (《圓．遊．會》),, an exhibition + workshop series on tool-oriented research and digital experimental narratives using a 360-degree-capture lens, March 4 to April 10, 2005 at the Para/Site Art Space, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, funded by the Arts Development Council. For basic description, visit: http://www.para-site.org.hk/events/20050304take.htm

Curator for The Writing Machine Collective 《文字機器創作集》, an exhibition exploring cyber-textuality and narrative with work presentations and seminars, co-presented with 1aSpace (art group), at the Cattle Depot, July 17 to August 7, 2004; and financially supported by the Arts Development Council. The event collects 12 digital interactive works by 22 local artists.

Curator & Workshop Chair for An Open Rule: Blink Space & Drifting Presence (〔打開規則〕集體延續創作藝術展：「這(個)那(個)」), a mixed-medium month-long art event exploring "rule-driven creativity"; January 10 to February 29, 2004 at Para/Site Art Space, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong; funded by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. [exhibition + workshop + lecture series]  For exhibition details: http://www.para-site.org.hk/events/20040111open_rule.htm For "An Open Rule" web archive, http://www.para-site.org.hk/AnOpenRule/index.htm

Co-Curator (with Phoebe Man, Bryan Chung and Hector Rodriguez) for Somebody Has Done It Before (《有人做過》), a mixed-medium installation work event featuring eight emerging local artists, also an experiment on curatorial method and critical reflection on the notion of display, July 4 to August 11, 2002 at Para/Site; funded by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.

Producer, "Fifty Years of Hong Kong Cinema" Festival, Udineincontri, co-presented by Centro Espressioni Cinematografiche and Cineteca del Friuli (a member of the International Association of Film Archives), Udine, Italy, April 18-24, 1998.

Guest Presentation in Arts and Culture (Recent, Selection):

Apr 2005 Symposium Speaker & Moderator, "Urban City of Hong Kong as the Imaginary: a visual story in 5 episodes" in Symposium titled "A Matter of Ownership: dialogues on art and cultural space of Singapore & Hong Kong," as part of the Bilateral Cultural Exchange Project "Metropolis Strip(p)ed", co-funded by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, the LCSD, and the National Arts Council of Singapore; at the Substation, (an independent art space in) Singapore
Jul 2004 -
Aug 2004		 Speaker (Curator's Talk), "What is the Writing Machine? – Hyper Vs Cyber-textuality," at the closing event of the Writing Machine Collective exhibition, co-presented with 1aSpace, at the Cattle Depot, Hong Kong.
Jun 2004 Co-Guest Speaker (with Ellen Pau and Patrick Mok), "Seminar on the West Kowloon Cultural Project: the Museum of Moving Images," organized by the Hong Kong Projects.
Feb 2004 Co-Guest Speaker (with Wong Aining, Head of Research Department, Hong Kong Film Archive), "Urban Cinema of the Sixth-generation Directors in China," at the Urban Cinema Series, Comparative Literature Department, University of Hong Kong.
Jan 2004 Lecture Speaker, "Early Cinema Aesthetics and Reception Mode," Hong Kong Film Archive Lecture Series.
Nov 2003 Seminar Speaker, Artists' Dialogue I, titled "Cross-over of Media Arts," Tree/Man: Danny Yung's Solo Exhibition, Cattle Depot.
Apr 2003 Juror. FIRPESCI (Federation for Internal Film Critics) Prize, at the 27th Hong Kong International Film Festival.

Apr 2001 Seminar Speaker. "Asian Women," forum at the Hong Kong International Film Festival 2001.
Feb 2001 An interview with video/installation artist, Gary Hill, "Hillscape," Videotage.
Oct 2000 Hong Kong Representative (for the Hong Kong Film Critics Society) in the "MAX!2000 Cross-Cultural Seminar," a conference between Hong Kong critics/scholars and European critics, so-sponsored by the Goethe Institute and the Hong Kong Film Critics' Society.
Jan 2000 Workshop chair. "Automatic Writing" 不假思索書寫法. "Nokia Creative Rap RaRa: a Festival of Ideas," Star Alliance City Festival, Fringe Club.
Feb 1999 Speaker (university sector), "Multi-media Creation and Social Investigation," a seminar on Hong Kong media education, organized by HKU Committee on General Education, funded by the University Grants Committee.
1998 HK Representative in the "MAX!1998" event, the first conference between Hong Kong critics/scholars and European critics, co-sponsored by the Goethe Institute and the Hong Kong Film Critics' Society.

Jul 1997 Speaker in "Hong Kong Identity", a feature on BBC’s World Today programme in May 1997; speaker in round-table session titled "the British Heritage of Colonial HK?" with Claudio Mo and William Tang for the hand-over series on June 30, 1997 for BBC's East Asia Today; and speaker in round-table session on the problems of identities in HK for BBC-USA

Public & Community Services:

Jan 2006 Moderator. "Transforming Disused Urban Space", Symposium at the City Festival 2006, Fringe Club
2005 - 2006 Juror. Open Category, 11th Independent Film and Video Award (IFVA), by Hong Kong Arts Centre and Leisure & Cultural Services Department
Sep 2002 - Executive Board Member, Para/Site Art Space.
Aug 2004 - Advisor. Hong Kong Museum of Art.
Sep 2001- Consultative Board Member, Hong Kong Film Critics Society.
2002 - 2003 Juror. Open Category, 8th Independent Film and Video Award (IFVA), by Hong Kong Arts Centre and LCSD.
Jun 2002 Committee Member. Devolved Grant, Film/Video, Arts Development Council.
2001 - 2002 Juror. Open Category, 7th Independent Film and Video Award (IFVA), by Hong Kong Arts Centre and LCSD.
Feb 2001 Research co-ordinator-interview and writer. ADC-funded research, "The Development of Electronic Media Art in Hong Kong."
Oct 1999 - Member of Advisory Board (all local university lecturers), "Media Education Series" (a 10-episode TV series to be aired starting January 14, 2000), RTHK (service began in October 1999 with regular consultancy meetings on individual episodes).
1999 - 2000 Juror, Open Category. The 5th HK Independent Film & Video Award (IFVA), co-organized by the Hong Kong Arts Centre and the Provisional Urban Council of Hong Kong.
1999 - 2000 Examiner, Art Development Council funding allocation panel (Video/Film).
1989 - 1999 Member of the Selection Committee for the "Independently Yours" Program (a HK ADC-funded project to launch outstanding local independent video/film-makers and their works) of the Hong Kong Arts Centre.
1999 Copy Editor, proceedings for "The Age of Independents: New Asian Film & Video," part of the 23rd Hong Kong International Film Festival, co-sponsored by the Hong Kong Arts Centre and the Provisional Urban Council of Hong Kong.

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