Conference: Video/Art/TV

//May 27th 10am-3:30pm

//May 28th 10am-3:30pm

//Room 3.04, 3/F, Run Run Shaw Tower

//University of Hong Kong

//May 29th 10:30 to 11:45 am

//M+Museum

This conference resituates video aesthetics within distinct regional geographies of Asia and the Pacific. It examines the role played by changing technologies and infrastructures (such as broadcast, cable, satellite television, the internet, smartphone applications, streaming platforms, gaming, etc.) in shaping the experience, forms, and politics of video art in this part of the world. We start from Asia and the Pacific in order to unsettle sedimented ideas about video art that take the North Atlantic as their primary point of reference and to complicate the standard historical account shaped within this context. While there is a need to study the moving image in Asian art in this canonical sense, it is also clear that relocating video art demands a more foundational reconsideration of its formation, parameters, and intermediations. Thus our formulation “video/art/TV” signals a defamiliarized understanding of the category, with a view to expanding into other under-considered histories and practices of making, distributing, and displaying video art. By bringing together historical contributions with investigations of the dynamic and inventive video practices of the present moment, the conference frames an overarching perspective on the evolving constellation of video/art/television.

Event Link: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=106600

Organizing Committee:

Marie Martraire / Joshua Neves, Concordia University

Jean Ma, HKU

Co-sponsored by HKU Comparative Literature, CSGC, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada), and The Global Emergent Media Lab. Supported by Louis Cha Fund for Chinese Studies and East/West Studies.