Nicole Ip is a Hong Kong based filmmaker with an interest in engaging the moving image and text. Her work is concerned with the city, nature and finding fiction within the non-fiction. A recent graduate of the BA School of Creative Media programme at City University of Hong Kong, her experimental film CREVASSE (2023) received the Louis Koo Creative Media Award.

With great interest in experimental video, Angel KWAN aims to express her ideas through moving images. Throughout her studies at CityU, she has engaged in various methods of video-making. She is currently collaborating with the Hong Kong Tourism Board to promote Hong Kong culture and tourism. She started several projects in 2022, producing hand-drawn animation and Adobe After Effects. In September 2022, some of her passion projects will be showcased in a mini exhibition in Japan.

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Cyrus LEUNG is an animation and audio graduate from the City University of Hong Kong Creative Media. Greatly influenced by science and folk culture, her work ranges from hand-drawn animation, illustration, graphic design, circuit bending and installation. Apart from visual arts, she is also a multi-instrumentalist, composer and sound designer, actively bringing world music, analog sounds, experimental sonic art and fusion genres together with audiovisuals.

NGAI Tsz-kwan, Hong Kong based artist. She graduated at the School of Creative Media, is interested in exploring the variety and potential of image writing,emphasizes reading of moving images, as well as their documentary and experimental aspects.

TY Lok Yi is a Hong Kong-based artist and animator who likes to fuse abstraction, representation and storytelling in her works. A recent graduate of the School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong, her animation MY BATHTUB IS LINKED TO THE SEA received the Louis Koo Creative Media Awards in 2022. Her works have been shown at FILE festival, Videoframes as well as other international art and film festivals.

ZHOU Yinglin is a video and new media artist based on time-based media and digital virtual technology, currently living and working in Berlin/Linz. She holds the title of Outstanding Master’s Graduate of University of the Arts Berlin and is a PhD candidate at the University of the Arts Linz. In recent years, the artist has been researching on identity, digital virtual space, and cultural equality, focusing on issues such as identity recognition, cultural identity displacement, post-colonial identity gaps; virtual digital construction and virtuality, image expression in virtual space, and spatial power in virtual space, and she proposes the possibility of a futuristic perspective for cultural equality. Zhou Yinglin’s works have a satirical and witty temperament and incisive political attributes based on the research nature, and her projects have condensed a great deal of reflection and analysis.

The artist has received awards such as “the Lumen Prize”, Shortlist; “Future Artist” of the Today Art Museum X InArt, first prize; Lentos Freunde Art Award, Shortlist; “Ruptopia” iART Youth Art Program, third prize; “SAP Art Award”, Emerging Artist prize; and “Upapāduka· the Prologue of Crypto Art”, third prize.

Her works have been exhibited in major national and international art institutions and exhibitions, recently at Ars Electronica Center Linz; Art Basel Hong Kong’s Film Program; UCCA Lab at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art; A4 Art Museum; 13th National Art Exhibition; and O21 OSTRALE Biennale, etc.

Angel Leung is a moving image and media art curator who works in HK, Paris, and London.

She is the curator of Micromégas (2021-2023), Video Gaze (2023) at Videoex, and Ersilia – Body of Gateway Cities (2022). Her co-curated programmes include Foundation: A Web3 Media Art Festival (2022-23), Virtual Bodies Micro Residency in Peer to Peer: UK/HK (2022), Birds without Legs: Body & Mobility (2022) and Digital Birth: Zooming in on NFT (2021) at Art Basel Hong Kong.

She finished her Master’s degree in Screen Art at Université de Strasbourg in 2016 and received her Bachelor’s degree in Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong in 2009. She is also a researcher and writer on cinema. She co-edited the book David Lynch (Kubrick, 2017) while her articles were published in various media.