The Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong, in partnership with the Global Emergent Media Lab at Concordia University, Canada, and the M+ Museum, Hong Kong, present:
VIDEO/ART/TV
May 27 and 28, 2026 at the University of Hong Kong
May 29, 2026 at 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 that illuminate earlier video forms and formats 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.
May 27 (Wed) and May 28 (Thu)
Time: 10:00 am to 3:30 pm
Registration venue: Room 3.04, 3/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, The University of Hong Kong
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All are welcome. Registration is required.
https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=106600
May 29 (Fri)
Time: 10:30 am to 11:45 am
M+ Museum
All are welcome. No registration required.
Conference Programme
MAY 27 (WEDNESDAY) – CPD3.04 HKU
10:00 Coffee & Welcoming Remarks by Co-organizers
10:30–11:45 Panel 1
Clarissa Chikiamco (National Gallery of Singapore): “Art at the Nearest Television Screen and the Most Comfortable Armchair: Attempts at a Wider Circulation of Philippine Video Art in the 1980s”
Iuliia Glushneva (McGill University): “Video Err-Asia: Mapping the Televisual Artworlds of Socialism”
Riar Rizaldi (Artist and filmmaker): “Fever Discs: VCDs, Perversion, and the Afterimage of Reformasi”
Joshua Neves (Concordia University): “On Ubiquity: Form and Platform in Lu Yang’s Doku Series”
BREAK
14:00–15:15 Panel 2
Jihoi Lee (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Korea): “Watch and Chill, Beyond Access”
Shaoling Ma (Cornell University): “Southeast Asian Art Video Pedagogies in the Age of MOOCs”
Marie Martraire (Concordia University): “Transpacific Dialogues: Stories of Digital Navigation”
MAY 28 (THURSDAY) – CPD3.04 HKU
10:15–11:45 Panel 3
David Teh (National University of Singapore): “Convergence and Crossover: Towards a Regional History of Southeast Asian Video/Art”
Koichiro Osaka (National University of Singapore): “Video Installation: Asian Art Show Fukuoka, 1994”
Jean Ma (University of Hong Kong): “Computing Found Footage in the Video Work of Ho Tzu Nyen”
Toby Wu (Harvard University): “Siting Transnational Video Art across the Global Contemporary”
BREAK
14:00–15:15 Panel 4
Delaney Chieyen Holton (Stanford University): “On the Queerness of Hong Kong Video”
Shweta Kishore (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University): “Video within Video: Repurposing, Collaboration and Performance in Camp’s ‘From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf’”
Philippa Lovatt (University of St. Andrews): “Video Art in Post-Đổi Mói Vietnam”
MAY 29 (FRIDAY) – M+ Museum
10:30–11:45 Panel 5
May Adadol Ingawanij (University of Westminster): “Vanguardism as Residue and as Heritage in Southeast Asian Contemporary Artist Cinema”
Michelle Cho (University of Toronto): “K-Video: Art, Screens, and Secondary Liveness”
Ishita Tiwary (Concordia University): “New Media Art Practices of India: Institutions, Infrastructure, Aesthetics”
Conference Organizing Committee:
Marie Martraire, Concordia University
Joshua Neves, Concordia University
Jean Ma, University of Hong Kong
This conference is co-sponsored by the HKU Faculty of Arts & Department of Comparative Literature, the Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures (CSGC), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada), and The Global Emergent Media Lab, and is supported by the Louis Cha Fund for Chinese Studies and East/West Studies.
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