CityU Opening Ceremony of the Antarctica Exhibition

We would like to invite you to cover the following event:

 

Date:   23 May 2014 (Fri)

Time:   Media Tour – 4:15pm

                        Opening Ceremony – 6:30pm

Venue:     Lobby, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, CityU, 18 Tat Hong Avenue, Kowloon Tong

Officiating guests:

·         Mr Herman Hu Shao-ming, Council Chairman of CityU

·         Professor Way Kuo, President of CityU

·         Professor Roderick Wong Sue-cheun, Vice-President (Development and External Relations) of CityU

 

 

The Antarctica Exhibition will be opened at a ceremony on 23 May. The exhibition titled “Freeze Frame” will showcase the CityU students’ projects.

 

A team of students has transformed data that was collected during an art and science research expedition to Antarctica into new media artworks.

 

The 13 installations, which span the academic spectrum, use emerging technologies such as immersive 3D, robotics and game applications to show the endangered continent from a new perspective. Free from the grip of dry numbers, the students have artistically explored the data they collected, making it more personalised and more influenced by Hong Kong.

The media will have an exclusive preview of the students’ projects before the ceremony.

 

Media enquiries: Mavis Wong, (Tel: 3442 6121 or 6126 4449) or Christina Wu (Tel: 3442 6819 or 9841 2774), Communications and Public Relations Office