In the fifth lecture of the UCCA Video Bureau series, video artist Ellen Pau will trace the development of video practice in Hong Kong from the early eighties through the age of the internet and social media. Pau co-founded the Hong Kong media art collective Videotage in 1986 with Wong Chi-fai, May Fung, and Comyn Mo. The collective aims to create an umbrella organization for media artists that can facilitate artistic and cultural exchange while promoting video and media art in Hong Kong. Pau is also the founding director-cum-curator of the Microwave International Media Art Festival and Wikitopia, a festival concerning collaborative futures. The lecture will discuss video arts organizations and programs in Hong Kong, including Videotage, Visible Record, Ying e Chi, and more.
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Ellen Pau
Ellen Pau studied radiography at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in the early 1980s. However, working as a professional radiographer could not fulfill her creative interest in video and multimedia art. A self-taught video artist, her debut work Glove, a Super 8 video piece, was made and screened internationally in 1984. Today, Pau works as an independent cinematographer, curator, art critic, and researcher focusing on Asian new media arts. She also works as an art consultant for her newly founded company Inter-Act Arts. Pau’s single channel videos and video installation works have been exhibited extensively in film festivals and art biennials worldwide.
Video Bureau is a non-profit organization that aims to provide a platform to exhibit, organize, and archive video art. Video Bureau’s mission is to build a video art archive for research and screenings.
Founded by art collector Mr. Wang Bing in early 2014, New Century Art Foundation (NCAF) aims to study and promote the Chinese contemporary art. In addition to the existing art system, NCAF will do supportive and supplementary work for the development of the Chinese contemporary art. Through observation, research and working with good art institutions, NCAF will provide multiple platforms to promote young artists’ creations.