Ph.D., Program Leader of the Bachelor of Arts & Science in New Media at the City University of Hong Kong’s School of Creative Media, Media Theorist and Interdisciplinary Software Artist. His digital prints and video installations have been shown at the WRO biennial (Wroclaw, Poland), the Saatchi Gallery (London, England) and other venues and events. His installation Getsus: Judex (2010-2012) received an Achievement Award from the Hong Kong Contemporary Art Awards and was a Jury Selection at the Japan Media Arts Festival. His animation Res Extensa (2003) received the award for best digital work in the Hong Kong Art Biennial 2003. He has written several theoretical essays about game/play studies, film and philosophy, and cinema history, which have been published in such journals as Screen, Game Studies, and Cinema Journal.

May 5th, 2015

Media artist Elke Reinhuber currently holds a position as Assistant Professor at Nanyang University in Singapore for Expanded Photography. In her artistic research, she investigates on the correlation between decisions and emotions and explores different strategies of visualisation and presentation, working with immersive environments, virtual and augmented reality and scientific imaging technologies.

May 5th, 2015

Isaac Leung is a practicing artist, curator, and scholar in art and culture.

In 2003, Leung received an Honorary Fellowship of a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the New Media Art Department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since then, his works have been exhibited in over 30 venues across the globe, including Zolla/Lieberman Gallery (USA), Para Site (Hong Kong), Videotage (Hong Kong), Connecting Space (Hong Kong), MOCA (Shanghai), and Venice Biennale of Architecture (Italy). Leung’s works are centered on critical issues concerning technology and social media, and they have been featured on National Public Radio (USA), and in Agence France-Presse (France), Chicago Tribune (USA), NY Arts Magazine (USA), Chicago Readers (USA) and the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong).

In 2013, Leung was appointed as the Chairman of Videotage. During his tenure, he initiated and participated in projects that included exhibitions, workshops, lectures, publications, online projects, and symposia. Some of these include 40 Years of Video Art in Germany and Hong Kong (Hong Kong and Germany), The 12th Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition (Italy and Hong Kong), Perpetual Art Machine (USA), Time Test – International Video Art Research Exhibition (China), ISEA Festival (Hong Kong, China), Both Sides Now (Hong Kong, UK, and various countries), Loop Barcelona (Spain), One World Exposition (Hong Kong), China Remixed (USA), Clockenflap (Hong Kong), and Art Basel Crowdfunding Initiative (Hong Kong). In recent years, Leung has been active in promoting international exchanges of video and media arts. He is also a staunch supporter of exploring new models for interdisciplinary collaboration and creative entrepreneurship. In addition to his contributions to Videotage, Leung has also served as advisor and assessor for diverse international institutions, previous services include projects presented by Home Affairs Bureau (Hong Kong), Hong Kong Arts Development Council (Hong Kong), and Prix Ars Electronica (Austria).

In the same year of 2013, Leung received his PhD degree, specializing in the contemporary Chinese art market. Leung has given lectures at several prominent conferences, including Transmediale (Germany), International Arts Leadership Roundtable 2016 (Hong Kong), Art Basel Salon (Hong Kong), and ARCO Contemporary Art Fair (Spain). Leung has taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Baptist University, the City University of Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He will serve as Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural and Creative Arts of the Hong Kong Education University in July, 2017.

Last update: May 23th, 2017

Ph.D., Associate Professor (critical intermedia arts) at the School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong, Historian and Interdisciplinary Artist. Her critical scholarship and research creation include narrativity, visual/auto-ethnography and media archaeology, experimental historiography and videography.

Her works have appeared in the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, experimental film/video circuits in Asia and the Shanghai Art Biennnale, among others. Her video works (2001-2016) are archived at the Video Bureau (Beijing and Guangzhou, China).

Last update: May 15th, 2017

Jen Yannho Kim received her master’s degree from Kyung Hee University in media arts, and finished the coursework in contemporary cultural studies at Chung-Ang University, Seol, Korea. She has organized Seoul International New media Festival since 2000. She was the director of Media Theater i-Gong and the review committee member of Media City Seoul 2012. She has organized the Feminism Video Activist Biennale, Yoko Ono Tag, Maya Deren, Chantal Akerman and Bill Viola. She also planned and edited publications including Code Reading of Digital Visual, A Bandit with Her Camera and The History of Korean New Media Art.

May 5th, 2015

Curator of the Mori Art Museum. Kondo curated solo shows by Meiro Koizumi (2009) and Melvin Moti (2014); co-curated “Roppongi Crossing 2010” (2010), “Arab Express” (2012). He is currently Research Fellow at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum for Contemporary Art in Berlin.

May 5th, 2015

Graduated at the Department of Photography and Image, Gyeongju University, Korea. He studied Japanese at Yohan Waseda Foreign Language School (Japan), French at Université Nancy 2 (France), film making at Université Paris 8 and graduated at the Department of Composition at Conservatoire International de Musique de Paris (France). He is a multisensory artist whose works can be found in various fields of activity. He is currently continuing his ‘Le Collage Momentané’ series, and is also working on various new projects.

May 5th, 2015

Founder fof MOMENTUM, graduated at Harvard University with a degree in Literature and holds an M.Phil and PhD from the University of Cambridge in Film Studies. She wrote her dissertation on visceral spectatorship in contemporary cinema, focusing on the biological basis of embodiment. Having lectured in film studies and visual culture, her focus then shifted to contemporary art. Rachel Rits-Volloch founded MOMENTUM in 2010 in Sydney, Australia, as a parallel event to the 17th Biennale of Sydney. Since that time, MOMENTUM has evolved into a non-profit global platform for time-based art, with headquarters in Berlin at the Kunstquartier Bethanien.

May 5th, 2015

Menene Gras és la directora de Cultura i exposicions a Casa Àsia (Barcelona i Madrid) des de 2003. Amb un doctorat de la Universitat de Barcelona, Menene Gras és crítica d’art, conservadora i ex-professora. Abans d’això, va ser directora de Cultura i exposicions a l’Instituto de Medicaments Iberoamericans (actual Casa Amèrica de Catalunya) i també directora actual del festival de cinema asiàtic. Autora d’assajos, catàlegs, antologies i quatre llibres de poesia, ha estat corresponsal d’art d’Art Forum durant més de dotze anys i ha escrit pels diaris espanyols més importants.

Els recents aspectes destacats de la seva carrera professional inclouen exposicions i publicacions, com Is that Beauty? (2016-2017), The House and the Labyrinth (2015), El Jardín japonés: Topografías del vacío (2014), Chiharu Shiota. Les línies de mà (2014) i Pequín (2011).

L’any 2015 va ser guardonada per l’ACCA pel Projecte de Video Art Languages and Aesthetics of Spanish Video Art com la millor exposició espanyola feta a l’estranger. Actualment viu i treballa a Barcelona.

Darrera actualització: 10 de maig, 2017

Imma Prieto is an art critic and independent curator. She teaches Contemporary art and New Media at the Eram School of the University of Girona, and lectures in the MA Program in Curatorial Studies at the Ramon Llull University of Barcelona. She has curated several exhibitions nationally and internationally (TempArtSpace-NewYork, Hirshhorn Museum-Washington, MucaRoma-Mexico Central American Isthmus Biennial-Guatemala, Palazzo Ca ‘Tron-Venice, Joan Miró Foundation Barcelona, Fabra i Coats-Barcelona, Bòlit-Girona, among others).

She regularly writes in newspapers and magazines (such as La Vanguardia, Bonart, A*Desk and Artichoke) and is the author of artists catalogs as well as of books on art theory and aesthetics. She has been manager of the research group ELAA (European Live Art Archive), formed by the University of Girona, the University of Oxford and the artist residence Glaugair in Berlin, and is a member of the Chair of Contemporary Art and Culture of the University of Girona, the AICA (International Art Critics Association) and the IAC (Institute of Spanish Art).

Last update:  April 4th, 2017