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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 20:17:41 +0800 From: Videotage <videotage@hknet.com> Subject: web broadcasting & seek curator...Videotage The Atlas - Video Opera Hong Kong Arts Festival 99 Exxon Energy Limited presents sponsored An Exxon Vision (HK Time) 8:00pm. 12th -13th Feb. 1999 3:00pm. 13th Feb. 1999 Studio Theatre, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Hong Kong A Flowery Flowery World and Videotage production Programme Description Every city has its own map, and everyone who reads the map will find a city of his own imagination. The memory of city-dwellers is an atlas - of words, images, sound, touch, smell and taste, or of an individual or collective mirage created out of imaginative personal time-tracks. Based on Hong Kong writer Dung Kai-cheungs novel The Atlas - Archaeology of an Imaginary City as a basis, composer Chan Ming-chi and multi-media theatre worker Afa Chiang collaborate with several other local artists to bring us a new understanding of the city. They will present the work by composing original music, images, installations and body language to a maps concept with its all ratios, legends, longitudes and latitudes. This programme is a contemporary music concert staged in a special theatrical space created by video images, lighting and dance. This will be the first time in Hong Kong that literature, music, performance, video art and the electronic media network come together in a single boundary-breaking programme. It will be an amalgamation of concert, broadcast, theatre performance, exhibition, and literature. Participants both inside and outside the theatre will be able to create and experience a brand-new dimension of space and time. Artistic Aspect 1. Stage and Visual Image Multi media theatre artist Afa Chiang works with visual images and the stage setting-up to create special effects within the confines of a theatre. Taking the structure and concepts of the book as the starting point, local video/visual artists -Ellen Pau, Yank Wong, Wong Chi-fai, Jamsen Law, Ernest Fung, Lo Yin-shan, Mark Chan and Choi Yee-yuen, will create images of Hong Kong which can be associated to the performance thematically on their own interpretation on the five movements (the Standing Point, the Physical Stage, the Emotions, the Traveling Path and the Next Step) of our living environment. The screening of these video images during the performance will provide a visual dimension to the performance structure and to stimulate the audiences appreciation of >the total theatre. Body movement will also be staged. The parallel images of the live and pre-recorded images creates a dialogue about the real life and the virtual world. With the technical assistance from AT &T, Tiger Information Systems Ltd., Mei Ah Innoweb Co Ltd., Microsoft Hong Kong Ltd. and The Chinese University of Hong Kong (HKIX), the live transmission from three other locations will be synchronized with its digital broadcasting from the theatre, which means that the on-site audience and web-site users can simultaneously enjoy performance taking place at different places. The concept of such setting is to break down the physical boundary of performance which is limited by the architectural space of the theatre. 2. Music and musical performance - The Unpredictable Universe Award winning local composer Chan Ming-chi will focus on the drawing inspiration and space references from Dungs philosophical contemplation affected by the geographical changes of Hong Kong over the past century. Chan will write a 80 minutes Chinese chamber music work divided into five movement for an ensemble of The Atlas Ensemble and New Tune Music Association . The placement of the musicians will be in accordance with the spirit of ying-yang and the five elements(metal, wood, water, fire and earth). Sound and colour design will change along with shifts in time and direction. Musicians will circulate around the audience and play the sheng, whose long sustained sounds represent the frozen moment in time of non-existence in the womb of the Universe. In addition, the impressions conveyed by the performers interact with other image media so that all participants - performers, audience, listeners - will realize that a map goes beyond any boundaries of space and time to create a pluralistic space of complexity. Technological Aspect This production tries to utilize technology as a tool to break down the physical boundary of the performance which is limited by the architectural space of the theatre. 1. ISDN transmission Other than the pre-recorded video, live images will also boardcasted during the performance. ISDN lease line will be used to transmit images of three different live happenings from three selected locations - the Central escalator, Cafe Visage Too and the Videotage office back to the theatre. This adds an extra spatial and temporal dimension to the performance. The multiple layers of image will give an ambiguity meaning to the definition of real/delay time and the different location/space while the audience is watching the performance. 2. Internet broadcast The performance in the Hong Kong Cultural Centre and the images of the other locations will be live broadcasted over the internet using the Microsoft Winnov internet broadcast software programme and internet technology. Internet broadcasting is a rapid growing trend on the net because it allows any form of events, for instance concerts, to be broadcasted through the internet network to millions of audience in the world at the same time without going through the channels of TV or radio. It creates a cyber event which allows internet users from all over the world to view the performance at a different angle at the same time as the audience inside the theatre. 3. Web Page - http://www.the-atlas.com.hk/ The web page is an extended art form of this multi-layer program. The navigator idea on the internet will provide a different aspect of the conceptual development of the performance. Internet users can assess the wed page to share images and sound clips of the program. During the show time, they can see the whole performance in the four venues by downloading the Winnov software from The Atlas web page http://www.the-atlas.com.hk. This is a city that belongs to travellers. Therefore, we must all encompass within ourselves the easily sated avidity and instantly satisfied curiosity of a traveller. Give comment to us: videotage@hknet.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ VIDEOTAGE MEDIA ARTISTS COLLECTIVE Curator of the Microwave Festival 99' Videotage seeks candidates for the position of Curator of the Microwave Festival 99. The curator is responsible for the direction and programs of the Festival, which is comprised of an international video screening, CD-ROM exhibition, seminar and artist-in-residence workshop. Besides supervising and coordinating the whole festival with the staff in Videotage and other curator(s) in Hong Kong, the curator is also expected to hold one seminar in video/media art during the festival. Videotage will offer the flight ticket, accommodation and curator fee in the amount of HK$15000. Candidates should have strong curatorial experience with video and media art. Interested persons are asked to submit a curriculum vitae, along with at least two or three samples of scholarly publications or works (VHS, slide or photo) to the General Manager, Videotage, 9/F., Block A, 12 Oil Street, North Point, Hong Kong, China before April 30,1999. Videotage is a non-profit artist collective that focuses on the development of new media in Hong Kong. Starting out as a facilitator for collaborative projects, Videotage has evolved into an operation dedicated to the production, development and study of film, video and other alternative time-based media arts. Web-site: http://www.videotage.org.hk Microwave Festival In 1996, Videotage co-presented with the Urban Council and Zuni Icosahedron Hong Kong's first international video festival. Today, Microwave Festival remains the only International media arts festival in Hong Kong. Programs include: -International video art showcase -Artist-in-residence programs -Exhibition -Conference Since its initial launch, Microwave Festival has expanded into the realm of multimedia arts including a CD-ROM works exhibition in 1997. International artists and curators attended the festival included: -Rea Tajiri (U.S.A.) -Steve Hawley (U.K.) -Kathy High (U.S.A.) -Mike Leggit (Australia) -Kate Craig (Canada) -Eder Santos (Brazil) -Beth Jackson (Australia) -Hsu Cheng-ren(Taiwan)