The relationship between the screen and film is always paradoxical. It is a thing that enables us to see a film, but is also something that we normally do not see during the viewing experience. It is an “invisible” medium. The screen functions as a border between the two worlds, the physical / the real and the symbolic / the virtual, constantly reminding the audience what is being displayed on screen is merely a movie and a fantasy.

In the contemporary world, the electronic screens have become a universal interface for everyday life. Social media, being highly image-driven and short clips oriented, has reinforced the screens to serve as the indispensable vehicle of self-construction and self-expression. In this era of the pandemic, the functionality of screens has extended and amplified to an extent that has overflown to conceal its physicality.
In this edition of CINEMA 2.0: Illuminating Vacuum Media Arts Exhibition, with four different artworks, the complex relation of how the screen serves as a medium in the real world is re-examined.

Curator: Ip Yuk-yiu

Featured Artists: Joon Moon (South Korea), Exonemo (Japan), Akinori Goto (Japan)

Gallery address: 5/F, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Wan Chai

Ifva partners with Goethe-Institut Hongkong to present solo exhibitions for Media Art Category local awardees. This year the two parties will present the solo media arts exhibition “A Messenger – Passerby in Our Battlefields” of Lo Lai-lai Natalie, the Gold Awardee of the 26th ifva Media Art Category, which explores the conflicts and wrestling among humans and nature through a collection of new media artworks.

The lonesome spring is approaching. We yearn to sing freely and migrate like birds, but the price of staying alive remains a mystery. Farmers, like their crops, used to live with the land. Some of them, however, art uprooted and rely on their intuition to flow steadily in the sky, just to pervert themselves from falling back onto the soil.

Exhibition opening in the presence of the artist Lo Lai-lai Natalie on May 18, 2022 (Wed) at 6:30pm

Venue address: 14/F Hong Kong Arts Centre, No.2 Harbour Road

Goethe-Institut Hongkong has been partnering with ifva in presenting solo exhibitions for the Festival's Media Art Category local awardees. Following Hui Wai-keung, Kenny Wong and Carla Chan, this year the two parties will present Chris Cheung (h0nh1m)’s first solo media arts exhibition at the Goethe-Gallery and Black Box Studio.

“Inheriting unfinished ambitions, embarking on an enlightening journey.”

After everything we have been through, we have arrived at the present moment and are now considering our future. We understand that art is a never-ending practice.

Ink, stone and calligraphy descend from Eastern aesthetics. The beauty of the sky, the mountains, the sun, the moon, and the stars was captured by ancient literati in poetry, calligraphy and painting; passed down to this day, unforgotten after more than a thousand years. In the digital age, data has become the carrier of memory which also serves to inject new vigour into artistic creation. But will human memory fall into extinction due to interventions in technology?

Venue address: 14/F Hong Kong Arts Centre, Wan Chai