Winner of the 2012 Best Artist Award Dr Samson Young, Assistant Professor at CityU’s School of Creative Media, shares his journey of media arts
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Event: Winner of the 2012 Best Artist Award Dr Samson Young, Assistant Professor at CityU’s School of Creative Media, shares his journey of media arts
Date: 13 June 2013 (Thursday)
Time: 2:30 pm
Venue: Room M4004, 4/F, CityU Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, 18 Tat Hong Avenue, Kowloon
Dr Samson Young Kar-fai, Assistant Professor in the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong, was presented with the award for Best Artist in Media Arts by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council in recognition of this achievement in combining the arts with media technology and his contribution to arts development in Hong Kong.
Dr Young, a composer, sound artist and media artist, was Hong Kong Sinfonietta’s Artist Associate. He combines contemporary music with technological elements, such as new media. He has excelled at adding funny and interesting elements into other works, e.g. merging the sound of video games with the melodies of classical music. He will introduce his unique intermedia arts at the press briefing.
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