Zoe Li wrote:
>Few years later, there is a School of New Media opened in City University of
>Hong Kong, mainly focus on film and it is very technical. It build up a
>large number of young people who will be interests in New Media, and they
>are technically very good to make individual pieces of work, but only few of
>them will be able to engage in a theoretical level in curating.
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The situation in Hong Kong is not so bad. The New Media Dept at City
University is well equipped and has a sophisticated faculty. I gave a
visited there early this year and was impressed. In terms of curatorial
development there are people like May Fung and Fion Ng who are engaging not
only directly but primarily with new media and are active not only in HK
venues but regionally in China, Korea and other countries.
Like many countries in the Eastern or Southern Hemispheres HK is rather
isolated compared to European centres (even US cities feel isolated due to
the distances involved) and in this respect Europe is unique and lucky.
However, China in particular is developing very fast, especially HK,
Shanghai and Beijing and I wouldn't be surprised to see them taking the
initiative in the not distant future. I would expect that what they do will
be quite different to what happens in Europe and the US.
best
Simon Biggs
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