Art Promotion Office

New Media @ Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre

Dorkbot:VAC
Dorkbot first appears in New York describing a group of artists (sound/image/movement etc), designers, students, scientists who meet monthly to discuss and to involve in the creation of electronic arts. Dorkbot is now made popular as a global movement of small, an autonomous gathering among people interested in the creation of arts which are inspired by technology. Under Dorkbot:VAC, Hong Kong Visual Arts Center will be transformed into a platform for active exchange, interaction and discussion of new media art through a series of art activities that suits people from all ages and backgrounds.

Having the honour of inviting Keith Lam, a rising star in the international new media art scene who has just won the prestigious PRIX Ars Electronica 2008 with the work — Moving Mario (2007-8), Keith will lead a series of activities which are inspired by the concepts and skills behind his creation in Dorkbot:VAC between May till October 2009.

High-technology is not necessarily the gist among Keith Lam's works. For Keith, the question of new media is to create works that can captivate his audience to think about the relationship between human and space, human and human or space and space. Hence his works such as Moving Mario (2007-8), Mobile Brush (2007) and His-story (2008) attests the artist's attempt to readjust the tension between human and technology, they alarm our over-reliance on technology is, in fact, manipulating the relationship between human and machines since the Modern Industrial Revolution and our flagging sensibility to the past, present and future.

Dorkboot:VAC will kick off with Dorkbot the Gadget from May, other programmes like Cross-disciplined New Media Workshop, Dorkbot Camp, Night Performance etc will then follow throughout this summer and autumn (details to be announced in July APO Newsletter). So stay tuned! Don't Miss it!

Dorkbot the Gadget
New Media Art is not always equal to High technology art works. If to think out-of-box, you will find inexpensive materials like cardboard, pencil and electronics are the best resources for the creation of fun and sometimes avant-garde gadgets that you can carry around and play with. For four months from this May onwards, Keith Lam will take his works as the example and be our buddy to explore the fun in the creation of simple yet interactive new media art works in Dorkbot the Gadget.

Date	Toy	Remark
24.5.2009 (Sunday)	Analog Digital: Paper Musical Instrument	Deadline of Application: 1.5.2009
14.6.2009 (Sunday)	Viewable Sound	Please state the session that you intend to participate on the application form.
12.7.2009 (Sunday)	Electronic Body: Wearable Technology I	*Stay tuned for detail of application in July APO Newsletter.
8.8.2009 (Saturday)	Electronic Body: Wearable Technology II

New Media Artist: Keith Lam (Cantonese & English)
Time: 2:30 — 5:30pm
Venue: 4/F Multi-purpose room
No. of Participants: 15 persons
All welcome. Free admission

Dorkbot the Gadget
Keith Lam


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