Date: Tue 25 February 2025
19:00 – 21:00 HKT (11:00-13:00 GMT)
Online event via Zoom
Register to join: https://cuhk.zoom.us/……/WN_EUKqeIGCQXSrUNiiI0D24Q
Helen Knowles
Artist and PhD Candidate, The University of Northumbria, UK
Zaiba Jabbar
Founder and Curator of HERVISIONS, UK
Debbie Ding
Artist-scholar and PhD Candidate, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
The third Ecologies of Participation (EoP) panel discussion will explore the role of technology in participatory art projects. In the post-digital age, humans and technology are inextricably entwined. Technologies augment our bodies, mediate our communication, and shape our understanding of ourselves in society. This panel discussion brings together artists, curators and scholars to explore how technology is used to enable digital participation and collective knowledge production. We will look at technology as a participant with generative AI contributing to a co-creative process in stimulating our collective imaginations, and how technology mediates shared experiences through networked VR experiences and virtual world platforms.
Speakers:
Helen Knowles (b.1975) is an artist and curator of the Birth Rites Collection currently housed in the University of Kent. Recent shows include; Bankley Artist Studios, (2024), Science Gallery, London, Hercules Road Gallery , London, Hyundai Motor Studio, Beijing (2023), Alberta University of the Arts, Leuphana University (2022), Hannover project, Kunsthaus Graz, ‘Virtual Station’, Seoul, (2021) arebyte Gallery, London, Ars Electronica, (2020). Her work is held in collections including, Kunsthaus Graz, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Gallery Oldham, Tate Library and Archive, The National Art Library. A recipient of awards from Arts Council England, she was awarded an honorary mention at Ars Electronica 2020. In 2021, Knowles was awarded a research studentship from The University of Northumbria to carry out a practice-based PhD project called ‘More than Human’ Healthcare’.
www.helenknowles.com
Zaiba Jabbar is a curator, educator, award-winning director, and the founder of HERVISIONS (est. 2015), a London-based femme-focused curatorial agency, platform and digital art studio that produces innovative commissions, exhibitions, and events with a strong focus on the intersection of art, technology, and culture. Jabbar was a curator in residence at LUX, London in 2018, and is a board member of Abandon Normal Devices. A pioneer in augmented reality and digital art exhibitions, she has collaborated with renowned partners like Tate, Google Arts & Culture, arebyte, bitforms, Furtherfield, and The Photographers’ Gallery, to name a few. She is dedicated to making art more accessible beyond traditional gallery spaces, emphasising the democratisation of our experiences with art outside the white cube through expanded moving image and time-based media.
https://www.hervisions.world
Debbie Ding is an artist-scholar working across the intersection of artistic research, technology and game studies, exploring psychogeography in virtual worlds. She is currently doing a practice-led PhD at Nanyang Technological University on the NTU Research Scholarship. Ongoing exhibitions include NTU Museum and New Art Museum Singapore. Her work was shortlisted for the President’s Young Talents 2018 and Impart Art Awards 2020 and is collected by the Australian War Memorial and Singapore Art Museum. Notable exhibitions include Ars Electronica, “Radical Gaming” at HeK Basel, “Worldbuilding” at Julia Stoschek Foundation Dusseldorf, “Wikicliki” at Singapore Art Museum, “Radio Malaya” at NUS Museum, Kochi Biennale, and the Singapore Biennale.
https://dbbd.sg
About EoP:
Ecologies of Participation (EoP) is a transdisciplinary research collaboration between Fine Arts, Architecture and Media and Cultural Studies. Through panel discussions, workshops, artistic projects and symposiums, the initiative aims to bridge research and practice by providing platforms for developing experiments with creative practice, technology, and urban space. It was initiated by Yim Sui Fong (Assistant Professor of Fine Arts), Melody Hoi Lam Yiu (Research Assistant Professor of Architecture) and Ashley Lee Wong (Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2024. The initiative aims to develop practice-based collaborations to explore the role of creative arts in society.
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