On Sounds, Colours, Images and Forms – Multimedia Lecture Series

Moderator and Speaker: TSANG Man-tung

Conducted in Cantonese

Free Seating

21 September - The Theatre as a Black Mirror*

Guest Speaker: Adrian YEUNG

We live in a rapidly changing digital age where the Internet and social media are changing reality as we have all along taken it to be. There is a saying that the theatre is a mirror on the world, so how does it project the future, with all its high-tech, twisted atrocities, through subject matter and staging?

28 September - Visible Sounds: Sound and Image*  - Tickets for this lecture are SOLD OUT.  Thank you for your support!  

Guest Speaker: Dan FONG

A sound is more than just something we hear. It contains frequencies that can be visualised through media technology. This lecture is a live demonstration of how the pure tones of age-old musical instruments such as singing bowls, drums, organs and the human voice in chants can be transformed into visual projections. There will also be a discussion on how sounds can be organically transformed into images for application in contemporary performing arts.

5 October - Finding Warmth in a Digital Age

Guest Speaker: Alex CHEUNG

How do we find human warmth in the cold medium of IT? The speaker, a theatre director, will use three theatre productions under the Taiwan Technology Subsidy Scheme - Distortion City, The Lives of P and Moonwalk with the Monk - as case studies to explore how multimedia art can be seamlessly blended with theatre, and decode the mindset of media artists and traditional theatre workers.

12 October - The Greatest Form Has No Shape

Guest Speaker: Oliver SHING

In an age when visuals are anywhere and everywhere, and IT products serving as pacifiers are a common sight, what more possibilities can images pose? As Laozi says, “Great music has the faintest notes, and the Great Form is without shape”. Is it possible to use form and shape to break down forms and shapes, evoke imagination, and guide the audience to experience the moment?

19 October - The Invisible Movements

Guest Speaker: Koala YIP

In this age of digital media, the invaluable thing about the performing arts is that they require the synchronised participation of our body, our heart and our consciousness. In the reciprocal interchange between dance works and digital visuals, there is actually an invisible dynamic. It may not be easily detectable, but it does evoke imagined multiple dimensions that take the audience on journeys to utopian lands, both real and virtual. There will be live dance demonstrations during the lecture.

* Audience will be seated on the floor during the lectures on 21 and 28 September.  Comfortable clothing and shoes are recommended.

* Please enter the Podium Workshop from P/F of Administration Building, Hong Kong Cultural Centre.

Each lecture lasts for 1 hour and 30 minutes without intermission.

TSANG Man-tung

With twenty years of experience as a scenographer and over 200 design projects for the stage, Tsang Man-tung has a brilliant track record of awards. Notable ones include Best Set Design, Best Costume Design and Best Make-up and Image Design at the Hong Kong Drama Awards, the Award for Best Artist (Theatre) 2007-08 presented by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, and three-time winning of the Outstanding Set Design for Dance at the Hong Kong Dance Alliance Dance Awards.  In 2010, he visited Yale School of Drama as a special research fellow on an Asian Cultural Council fellowship 2009.  He was awarded in the Secretary for Home Affairs' Commendation Scheme in 2015 for his contribution to the development of arts and culture.   In 2017, he won the Silver prize and Honorable Mention for Set Design at World Stage Design 2017 with the martial arts dance drama, Storm Clouds.  In recent years, he has forayed into ritual theatre, and his directorial efforts were seen in Pop Theatre’s The Heart Sutra and Hong Kong Dance Company’s Vipassana-Silent Walk.   Tsang is also a singing bowl performer, having shared the stage with pipa virtuoso Wong Chi-ching, nanguan virtuoso Wang Xinxin, and Kunju artist, Kong Aiping.

Adrian YEUNG

Adrian Yeung is a multimedia designer and theatre director, and currently Senior Lecturer in Media Design at the School of Theatre and Entertainment Arts of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.  His directorial efforts are mainly applied to creating theatre works that explore the topical issues of new technologies, their application within the context of theatre production, and the application of such technologies as open source in mobile phones, perspective projection, motion capture, on-the-spot editing etc., to examine the relationship between the world of mediated reality and the ‘liveness’ of the performing arts of theatre and dance.  His works in theatre include The Nether (2017), which explores the moral baseline of virtual reality; Modern Times (2016), which is a reimagining of Charlie Chaplin’s silent film classic by updating it to the context of the virtual world of the internet today; and Landscape of Ozu (2015) of Multi-Media-Motion Series, which involved live shooting in an attempt to recreate the understated, elegant cinematic aesthetics of Ozu Yasujiro.

Dan FONG

Dan Fong graduated from the City University of Hong Kong where he trained at the School of Creative Media, and is currently a digital visual artist and visual designer.   His works were seen in the productions of Zuni Icosahedron, W Theatre, Hong Kong Dance Company, Pop Theatre etc.  He has designed the video and visual effects for numerous pop concerts since 2010, having collaborated with pop singers like Paula Tsui, George Lam, Miriam Yeung, Kay Tse, Priscilla Chan, Pakho Chau, Hins Cheung, Edmond Leung, SHINE, Yoga Lin, Hebe Tan and many others.

Alex CHEUNG

Alex Cheung graduated from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts majoring in Directing, and holds a Master’s degree from Fo Guang University Graduate Institute of Art Studies.  He was a core member of Ring Creative, working mainly in drumming performances, theatre, physical movements, and design and teaching of courses on Eastern art.  He was a member of Taiwan’s U Theatre before he founded Möbius Strip Theatre, of which he is also Co-Artistic Director.  His directorial efforts have won him many accolades and awards: Ritual of Night 2012 was among the Top Ten Finalists for the Taishin Arts Awards; the premiere of Diving in the Moment was named one of the five 'Shows of the Year' of Guling Street Avant-garde Theatre, and the production was revived by the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre in 2012, leading to a nomination for Best Director at the forth Theatre Libre Awards; and hamlet b. won the third Theatre Libre Awards for Best Director and Best Overall Performance.  Apart from leading Möbius Strip to participate in the dance festivals of Taipei and Hong Kong, he has also brought their works to various arts festivals held in Poland, Thailand, Beijing and Shanghai.

Oliver SHING

Oliver Shing is a graduate of The Chinese University of Hong Kong where he trained at the School of Journalism and Communication.  He is currently a multimedia artist and video director.  Performing arts companies he has worked with include Hong Kong Dance Company, Hong Kong Ballet, Zuni Icosahedron, Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, Hong Kong Arts Festival, On and On Theatre, Wuji Ensemble, Theatre Ronin etc.  Since setting up his own multimedia workshop in recent years, he has established connections with creative people of various sectors, explored perspective projection and interactive media technology, and collaborated in video designs for theme parks, concerts etc.  Pop stars he has worked with include Khalil Fong, Joey Yung and Aaron Kwok.

Koala YIP

Koala Yip holds a Bachelor degree from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and a Master’s degree from California Institute of the Arts in United States.  She is currently a practicing educator in multimedia performance and a visiting lecturer at Beijing Dance Academy, The University of Hong Kong, and Maryland Institute College of Art.  Her creative concept is built upon crossing media and exploring artistic interface in new forms of art.  She was the first multimedia artist invited by CCTV in the Mainland to present an interactive dance performance that was nationally broadcast live.   Her works were seen in theatres and art museums, or presented at academic conferences, in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Estonia and Asia.  Yip has been awarded with scholarships and accolades in many parts of the world, including the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowship for Overseas Studies (Hong Kong), a Certificate of Commendation from the Mayor of the City of Los Angeles, funding from the California Arts Council, the Emerging Interface Award from the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Director’s Prize from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and Best Performance Award at the Bauhinia Cup Hong Kong Dance Championship.

On Sounds, Colours, Images and Forms – Multimedia Lecture Series

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21.09.2018 (Fri)
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28.09.2018 (Fri)
19:30

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05.10.2018 (Fri)
19:30

12.10.2018 (Fri)
19:30

19.10.2018 (Fri)
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21.09.2018 (Fri)
19:30

28.09.2018 (Fri)
19:30

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Podium Workshop, Hong Kong Cultural Centre

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$50 for each lecture

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DATE

05.10.2018 (Fri)
19:30

12.10.2018 (Fri)
19:30

19.10.2018 (Fri)
19:30

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AC2, 4/F, Administration Building, Hong Kong Cultural Centre

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$50 for each talk

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