GARDEN HONG KONG
On-site exhibition

GARDEN HONG KONG at Osage Gallery is a one-week finissage art show of Ars Electronica 2021 Garden Hong Kong. Introducing Artificial Intentionalities, the Garden statement reads “Ars Electronica Garden Hong Kong’s curatorial inquiry explores various paths to better understand the entanglements that surface in the tectonic interplay of divergent worlds, where robots challenge social models, artworks try to understand each other, and the faraway meets the nearby."

Art in the Cloud | Panel Discussion IV
Theodora Barat (FR), Kattie Fan (HK), Linda Lai (HK), Jonathan Kemp (UK/AU), Alexey Marfin (UK), Kingsley NG (HK), Royce NG (AU/HK), Alvaro Cassinelli (UY/HK), Elke Reinhuber (DE/HK)

The development of media art and the online art space are both tightly enmeshed with technological innovations of their times. Art in the Cloud is a curatorial research that explores how the sudden growth of online art spaces contributes to the transformation of the presentation of media artworks. Specifically, we question how inherent characteristics such as interactivity and immersion shift in online exhibitions? How does today's online space contribute to, or limit artistic creativity?

Art in the Cloud | Panel Discussion III
Joseph Chan (HK), Marco Donnarumma (DE), David Rodriguez Gimeno (ES), Vvzela Kook (HK), Ray LC (US/HK), Lin Pey-Chwen (TW), Tamas PalWaliczsky (HU/HK)

The development of media art and the online art space are both tightly enmeshed with the technological innovations of their times. Art in the Cloud is curatorial research that explores how the sudden growth of online art spaces contributes to the transformation of the presentation of media artworks. Specifically, we question how inherent characteristics such as interactivity and immersion shift in online exhibitions. How does today's online space contribute to, or limit, artistic creativity? What are some of the unexpected challenges that artists have encountered? What are some of the new potentials that emerge from the technological impediments we come across?

Art in the Cloud | Panel Discussion II
Jeffrey Geiringer (US/HK), Joanna Hoffmann (PL), Tobias Klein (GR/HK), Cédric Maridet (FR/HK), Ellen Pau (HK), Yu-Chuan Tseng (TW), Ken Ueno (US), Alvaro Cassinelli (UY/HK)

The development of media art and the online art space are both tightly enmeshed with the technological innovations of their times. Art in the Cloud is curatorial research that explores how the sudden growth of online art spaces contributes to the transformation of the presentation of media artworks. Specifically, we question how inherent characteristics such as interactivity and immersion shift in online exhibitions. How does today's online space contribute to, or limit, artistic creativity? What are some of the unexpected challenges that artists have encountered? What are some of the new potentials that emerge from the technological impediments we come across?

Art in the Cloud | Panel Discussion I
Tuçe Erel (DE), Ryo Ikeshiro (JP/UK/HK), Vincent Ruijters (Nl/JP), Tsui Ka Hei, Haze (HK), Elaine Wong (HK), Viola Yip (HK/GR), Damien Charrieras (FR/HK)

Art in the Cloud | Online Exhibition
Théodora Barat (FR), Alvaro Cassinelli (UY/HK), Chan, Ka Chun Joseph (HK), Marco Donnarumma (DE), Tuçe Erel (DE), Kattie Fan (HK), Jeffrey Geiringer (US/HK), David Rodriguez Gimeno (ES), Joanna Hoffmann (PL), Ryo Ikeshiro (JP/UK/HK), Jonathan Kemp (UK), Tobias Klein (DE/HK), Vvzela Kook (HK), Lai Chiu Han Linda (HK), LC RAY (US/HK), Lin Pey-Chwen (TW), Alexey Marfin (US), Cédric Maridet (FR/HK), Kingsley NG (HK), Royce NG (HK) x Alvaro CASSINELLI (UY/HK, Ellen Pau (HK), Vincent Ruijters (NL/JP) , Yu-Chuan Tseng (TW), Tsui Brothers (HK), Ken Ueno (US), Wong Suk Yin Elaine (HK), Viola Yip (HK/DE)

The development of media art and the online art space are both tightly enmeshed with the technological innovations of their times. Art in the Cloud is curatorial research that explores how the sudden growth of online art spaces contributes to the transformation of the presentation of media artworks. Specifically, we question how inherent characteristics such as interactivity and immersion shift in online exhibitions. How does today's online space contribute to, or limit, artistic creativity? What are some of the unexpected challenges that artists have encountered? What are some of the new potentials that emerge from the technological impediments we come across?

EASEAS: Experiments in Art, Science and Ethology of the Art-Subject
Maurice Benayoun (HK/FR), Refik Anadol (US), Nicolás Mendoza (CO), Tobias Klein (HK/DE)

The birth of the art-subject and its proliferation in the art world exemplifies a clear departure from the traditional status of artworks as objects. It enables artists to explore divergent paths as the behaviour of artworks goes beyond biomimicry and the mirroring of human attitudes, making disjuncture a powerful means through which to interrogate different levels of social concern and human belief.

Galactic Wine Sharing Party

Pop by Hong Kong for a virtual drink with the Galactic media art community? 50% of what Festivals are about, is meeting friends and discovering new people, and this is what has been lost in the circumstances of the pandemic. But the technologically mediated routes, which we are forced to stick to, funnel us toward a more extensive intermixing of people who are usually distanced geographically, and culturally.

Posthuman Art: Robots, Aliens, Chess, and
Prof. Maurice Benayoun (HK/FR); Dr. Martin E. Rosenberg (US); Prof. Beatrice de Gelder (NL); Dr. Tanya Ravn Ag (DK); Dr. RAY LC (HK/US); Lisa Park SoYoung (HK/KR); Prof. De Kai (US/HK)

Is post-human art far too human? Taking this question as a starting point, the five speakers of this panel expand this inquiry in five disparate trajectories. Media artist Maurice Benayoun (HK/FR) questions how artworks can open new perspectives by engaging the world as subjects rather than objects.