Date: 23 May 2021
Venue: Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Curators: Kyle Chung & Angel Leung
Co-Presented by Videotage & Art Basel HK
Curatorial Statement:
Non-fungible Token (NFT) has become the new buzzword in the art scene. While born-digital artworks are replicable, blockchain technology enables these artworks to assume uniqueness. This screening and discussion session delves into the digital materiality of media art in the context of NFT. Each artwork in this screening manifests in video form its unique digital material and virtual space.
- Peter Nelson, Landscape Tractate, 2015, 10’19”
- Vvzela Kook, Gods and Pilgrims, 2019, 11’00”
- Chan Ka Kiu, So Warm Inside Me, 2018, 2’10”
- Isaac Chong, One Sound of the Futures, 2016, 7’13”
Speakers: Kyle Chung (Media art curator, Hong Kong), Reena Devi (Art journalist and critic, Singapore), Scott Fuzion (Founder of NUMOMO, South Korea), Vvzela Kook (Artist, Hong Kong)
Host: Angel Leung (Videotage, Hong Kong)
Assistant Curators: Myra Chan, John Chow, Chung Wing Shan