Two site-specific digital-media installations by Yike Gao & Hung Keung

Hung Keung
Bloated City / Skinny Language

The important Hong Kong based artist Hung Keung is a visitor to the ANU School of Art. In association with the Canberra Museum and Gallery and its current exhibition, INK REMIX: Contemporary art from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, curated by Sophie McIntyre, he will stage his large-scale interactive work Bloated City / Skinny Language. Hung Keung says:

In today’s digital era, bodily engagement in digital media technology can give the viewer a profound sense of ambiguity. In the case of my Bloated City / Skinny Language project, viewers can experience the concept of ‘time and space compression and overlapping’ and ‘reversed position and direction’ by interacting with animated, flying Chinese characters (simplified and traditional) on a long-scroll dual-screen virtual-space platform.

Yike Gao
iMemory

Master of Philosophy student Yike Gao will present iMemory, an interactive installation using augmented reality and motion tracking technology to explore the complex and sometimes conflicted memories of the ‘post 1980s’ generation of young Chinese citizens. Yike Gao says:

By adopting various interactive technologies and reconstructing my own memories of China using digital tools, the installation explores the possibility of representing memory in today’s digital environment.

Yike Gao, iMemory

For further information please contact:
martyn.jolly@anu.edu.au

The visit of Hung Keung to Canberra is supported by the ANU Research School of Humanities and the Arts and the ANU Foundation for the Visual Arts.