Bio

 
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Kenny Wong was born in 1987 in Hong Kong. Wong’s works explore the delicate relationship between daily experiences and perceptual stimulations by hybridising analogue and digital representations. Wong is interested in exploring visual patterns, motions, and sound textures, as well as presenting works in the form of computational kinetic sculptures. Wong actively works as a collaborating artist, multimedia designer, mechanical engineer/designer, and art researcher.

Wong’s solo and collaborative works have been exhibited in over 10 countries, including Ars Electronica Festival (Austria), WRO Media Art Biennale (Poland), Athens Video Art Festival (Greece), Phoenix Cinema and Art Centre (UK), NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery (UAE), BIAN Montreal (Canada), FILE Festival (Brazil), 404 Festival (Argentina), Seoul International NewMedia Festival (Korea), Pearl Lam Galleries (Hong Kong), Goethe-Institut (Hong Kong) and numerous international exhibitions. Wong has named one of the Golden 15, as part of the 3rd International Emerging Artist Award (UAE). He also received the Award for Young Artist 2014, Media Arts (Hong Kong) and was unanimously selected for the Bloomberg Digital Arts Initiative 2013 (Hong Kong).

Wong is currently an independent artist and designer founded label Things That Move, after he lefe his role as Creative Technologist at IOIO Creative in Hong Kong, He pursued his MFA in Sculpture at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He was a part-time Lecturer at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong in 2015, and received his BA in Creative Media from the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong in 2011.

黃智銓 1987 年出生於香港。他關注跨界模擬信號與數位表現法，以日常經驗及感知刺激之間的微妙關係作為創作元素。黃智銓熱衷於探索視覺模式丶運動、聲音質感，以及電腦動力學裝置。黃氏以多媒體設計師、機械工程師 /設計師和藝術研究員的身份與其他媒體藝術家、聲音藝術家及戲劇演員等積極合作。

黃智銓的作品獲邀於全球超過 10 個國家展覽展出，包括:林茨電子藝術節(奧地利)丶 WRO 媒體藝術雙年展(波蘭) 丶雅典錄像藝術節(希臘)丶 Phoenix 電影及藝術中心(英國)丶纽约大学阿布扎比分校畫廊(阿聯酋)丶 BIAN 國際媒體藝術雙年展(加拿大)丶 LOOP 巴塞羅那(西班牙)丶 FILE 電子藝術節 (巴西)丶 404 藝術節(阿根廷)丶首爾國際媒體藝術節(韓國)丶藝術門(香港)丶歌德學院(香港)以及眾多國際展覽。黃氏獲第三屆國際新晉藝術家獎(阿聯酋)Golden 15 提名。他亦獲頒 2014 年香港藝術發展局藝術新秀獎 (媒體藝術組別)，以及獲選「Bloomberg 數位藝術培育計劃 2013」(香港)。

黃智銓現是獨立藝術家和設計師並創立個人品牌 Things That Move，曾於十下創作擔任創意工匠(Creative Technologist)，以及在加拿大蒙特利爾 Concordia University 修讀碩士，主修雕塑。他 2015 年於香港城市大學創意媒體學院兼任講師。藝術家 2011 年獲得香港城市大學創意媒體文學士(榮譽)學位。

Selected Awards

2019 – Final 20 of New Technology Art Award 2019, Belgium
2018 – Special Mention, Interactive Media Category, the 23th Incubator for Film & Visual Media in Asia (ifva), Hong Kong Arts Centre
2017 – Jury Selections, The 20th Japan Media Arts Festival
2014 – Award for Young Artist (Media Arts), The Hong Kong Arts Development Awards, Hong Kong Arts Development Council
2014 – Golden 15 of the 3rd International Emerging Artist Award
2014 – Finalist of Hong Kong Fine Art Prize 2014, Hong Kong Contemporary
2014 – Special Mention, Interactive Media Category, the 19th Incubator for Film & Visual Media in Asia (ifva), Hong Kong Arts Centre
2011 – Gold Award, Interactive Media Category, the 16th Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards (ifva), Hong Kong Arts Centre

Grants

2014 – Funding recipient, AIR at Ars Electronica Futurelab, Burger COLLECTION Romania Cultural Institute
2014 – Grantee, Arts Development Fund (File Festival 2014 Sao Paulo and ISEA 2014 Dubai), Home Affairs Bureau, Hong Kong
2014 – Grantee, Media Arts Production Project Grant (File Festival 2014 Sao Paulo and ISEA 2014 Dubai), Hong Kong Arts Development Council
2013 – Grantee, Bloomberg Digital Arts Initiative 2013 (with Marco De Mutiis), Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation / Bloomberg
2013 – Grantee, Emerging Artist Grant, (displace_pivot), Hong Kong Arts Development Council

Residencies

2014 – Ars Electronica Futurelab Residency (with Chloe Cheuk), Linz, Austria
2013 – Fuse::Artist-In-Residence, Videotage, Hong Kong

Solo Exhibitions

2018 – “Moving Average” @ Goethe-Gallery, Goethe-Institut, Hong Kong
2017 – “New Positions” @ Art Cologne 2017, Pearl Lam Galleries, Germany
2017 – “Human, I am lack of confidence”(with 3 collaborators), Tohu & Chromatic Festival, Montreal, Canada
2016 – “The Canvas of Resonance”, Cube Gallery, Phoenix Art Centre, Leicester, UK
2014 – “displace_pivot”, 100 ft. Park, Hong Kong
2014 – “Squint”, Fuse::Artist-In-Residence, Videotage, Hong Kong
2013 – “][LIMINAL][” (with Marco De Mutiis), K11 Art Space, Hong Kong

Commissions

2017 – The Dancing Necklace (Permanent Collaborative Installation of Ricci Wong & Kenny Wong), SHKP Park Yoho Venezia Clubhouse, Hong Kong
2016 – Jockey Club ifva Everywhere ifva Carnival, Hong Kong Observation Wheel, Hong Kong
2014 ~ 2015 – HZ Hong Cheng Wall Light Project, Guangzhou, China
2013 ~ 2014 – Grand Century Place Digital Art Project, Hong Kong

Selected Exhibitions and Festivals

2018 – “Algorithmic Art: Shuffling Space and Time” (with Angela Su, Cedric Maridet) , City Hall, Hong Kong
2018 – “Artboty”, Małopolska Garden of Arts, Krakow, Poland
2018 – “Absorption As A Way Of Seeing”, Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong
2018 – “On the Road: Young Media Artists in China”, City University of Hong Kong
2018 – 23rd ifva, Pao’s Gallery, Hong Kong
2018 – “觉•物”互联网与中国人的日常生活艺术展, 751D•Park, Beijing, China
2017 – On The Road ,Guan Shanyue Art Museum (關山月美術館), China
2017 – Chromatic Festival 2017, Chromatic Pro, Arsenal Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
2017 – “Nuit Blanche 2017” , Eastern Bloc, Montreal, Canada
2016 – Invisible Threads: Technology and its Discontents, NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery, UAE
2016 – The Interstitial: Alan Kwan and Kenny Wong Two-Person Exhibition, Pearl Lam Galleries SOHO, Hong Kong
2016 – The furniture we are forever rearranging 2, ArtHelix, New York, USA
2016 – BIAN 2016 | AUTOMATA – International Digital Arts Biennal – Montreal, Canada
2016 – ISEA 2016 Juried Exhibition – 22nd International Symposium on Electronic Art, Hong Kong
2016 – The furniture we are forever rearranging, Grey Nuns Building, Montreal, Canada
2015 – Test Exposure, 16th WRO Media Art Biennale , Wroclaw, Poland
2014 – ISEA 2014, 20th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Dubai, UAE
2014 ~ 2015 – Ars Electronica Center (with Chloe Cheuk), Linz, Austria
2014 – Ars Electronica Festival (with Chloe Cheuk), Linz, Austria
2014 – FILE – Electronic Language International Festival (FILE SP 2014), Sao Paulo, Brazil
2014 – The International Festival of Digital Arts and New Media, Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, Greece
2014 – Chloe Cheuk | Kenny Wong | Marco De Mutiis | Open Studio Exhibition 2014, Foo Tak Building, Hong Kong
2014 – Hong Kong Contemporary Art Fair 2014, The Excelsior, Hong Kong
2014 – Interactive Media Category Finalist Exhibition, the 19th Incubator for Film & Visual Media in Asia (ifva), Hong Kong Arts Center
2013 – SCM7/K11 – TRANSCENDENT ORDINARINESS, K11 Art Mall, Hong Kong
2013 – Embark! Beyond the Horizon Exhibition, Oil Street Art Space, Hong Kong
2013 – The Lumen Prize Exhibition, The Space, Hong Kong
2013 – Chai Wan Mei 2013, Pure Art Foundation, Hong Kong
2012 – Soundtracking #John Cage 4’33’’, Videotage, K11, Hong Kong
2012 – Datagaga, Videotage, Hong Kong Cultural Centre
2012 – The Next State of Mind, Nexto Contemporary Art, Hong Kong
2011 – Art East Island, Studio 52, Pure Art Foundation, Hong Kong
2011 – 16th Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards (ifva) Festival, Hong Kong Arts Center
2011 – CityU Information Day 2011, Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong
2011 – XII School of Creative Media Graduates’ Showcase 2011, Room 502, Hong Kong
2011 – Videos as Writing Machine, Writing Machine Collective (episode 4), (funded by Hong Kong Art Development Council), Hong Kong
2011 – the 11^th Seoul International NewMedia Festival, Korea
2011 – Machines of Fetish, Blue Lotus Gallery, Hong Kong

Performance

2019 – “The Breathing Canvas” (with Karen Yu, Zihua Tan), Sound Forms, Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong
2014 – “Squint” Installation Performance (With Dennis Wong aka Sin:Ned)

Bibliography

2016 – Radio Interview, “大世界好香港 (bigworldsohongkong) – 10-11 藝術閒話：嘉賓黃智銓Kenny Wong – 新城知訊台（FM 99.7), 20/9/2016
2016 – Ai Weiwei, Liu Bolin, and More Explore the ‘Invisible Threads’ of Technology, The Creators Project, 29/7/2016
2016 – The Interstitial – Alan Kwan & Kenny Wong, John Batten, Artomity, Autumn 2016
2016 – 5 Hong Kong Artists Shaping the Tech Space, Eleanor Johnson, Hong Kong Tatler, 12/8/2016
2016 – Stuck in time and place: emerging artist Alan Kwan and Kenny Wong at Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong, Art Radar, 9/8/2016
2016 – 天馬行空的想像跨媒體藝術家黃智銓, HK01, 12/8/2016
2016 – “Mixed Emotions”, Trista Yeung, The Standard,19/8/2016
2016 – Mind the gaps and watch your steps at joint show of visual art, Post Magazine, John Batten, 12/8/2016
2016 – 處於間隙的觀者自觀, 曾家輝,立場新聞, 1/8/2016
2016 – 香港青年艺术家创作中的“港味”元素, 雅昌艺术网, 14/8/2016
2016 – 《間隙》與科技打交道探討關係與記憶, Wen Wei Po, 27/7/2016
2016 – INTERVIEW WITH ‘CANVAS OF RESONANCE’ ARTIST KENNY WONG, phoenix.org.uk, 5/2/2016
2015 – Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2014 Interview, Hong Kong Arts Development Council, 4/2015
2014 – “Drown”, Ars Electronica Blog, 22/10/2014
2014 – Kenny Wong Interview, art4d.asia, 11/3/2014
2014 – 不忘記因那日光的反射而瞇眼的黃智銓, Pixelbread / 主場新聞, 19/1/2014
2014 – “瞇”艺术展融合声光表演, Ta Kung Po, 11/1/2014
2014 – 捉得住的閃爍 , Ming Pao Weekly Magazine（明報周刊）,11/1/2014
2014 – 為你而跳的光之舞 — 黃智銓個展「瞇」,Arts News(藝頻), 7/1/2014
2014 – In a new light, The Standard, 3/1/2014
2014 – Reflected glory, 48 Hours Magazine, South China Morning Post, 2/1/2014
2013 – 《瞇》：日常經驗的抽象表達, Wen Wei Po, 31/12/2013
2013 – ][LIMINAL][ Interview, Randomartzine, 4/11/2013
2013 – Art show using footage from drones opens at K11 in Tsim Sha Tsui, South China Morning Post
2013 – Something new: Watch out!, Post Magazine, South China Morning Post
2013 – 刻下生命中的半秒－ ][LIMINAL][ 展覽, Arts News(藝頻),15/10/2013
2013 – 空間．人群．聲音—][Liminal][ , Arts News(藝頻), Fri, 11/10/2013
2012 – 109 – 專題介紹藝術展覽「境心相遇」(Radio Podcast), Mindustry 腦作大業, Hong Kong
2011 – 尋求對話的創作, (Issue 117, Oct), Cup Magazine
2011 – 聲光掠影 ﹣科學與藝術的結合<<10Hz>>, June 2011, CULTaMAP
2011 – 過來人，過來談, Milk Vol.533 Oct 2011, Milk Magazine
2011 – 創意媒體新啟視 What A Beautiful Mind, 25th May 2011, Oriental Daily News
2011 – 獨立短片賽城大奪8獎, 25th May 2011, Ming Pao Daily News
2011 – 拍外婆短片城大生ifva金獎, 25th May 2011, Sing Tao Daily
2011 – 拍片反思敬老城大女生奪金獎, 25th May 2011, Wen Wei Po
2011 – Record-breaking ifva haul for creative media students, 25th May 2011, CityU NewsCentre
2011 – 本土最年青創作力量 ﹣專訪得IFVA獎者, Issue 2, Delta Zhi, AMCNN
2011 – 同遊光影中, (Issue 111, April), Cup Magazine
2009 – 8花齊放-香港動畫教育篇, RTHK.

Presentations

2016 – Guest Speaker, (A TALK OF :THE PATH TO BECOME AN INDEPENDENT ARTIST-FROM SCHOOL TO THE ART WORLD), Hong Kong Design Institute
2016 – “dist.duo” @ labsession#10, Société des Arts Technologiques, Montreal, Canada
2016 – “The Canvas of Resonance” Artist Talk, Cube Gallery, Phoenix Art Centre, Leicester, UK
2014 – “Public Space” (with Chloe Cheuk), the 6th European – Chinese Cultural Dialogue ,Bucharest, Romania
2014 – “Social Media in Umbrella Revolution” (with Chloe Cheuk) , Master’s degree program Web Sciences, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
2014 – “Perceptual Resonance”, (Ewha Womans University) Videotage, Hong Kong
2013 – “Perceptual Resonance”, SCM7/K11 – TRANSCENDENT ORDINARINESS , K11 Art Mall, Hong Kong
2011 – “10Hz”, Dorkbot-HK #3, Videotage
2011 – “10Hz”, lecture of Installation Fundamentals, School of Creative Media, City University
2007 -“數碼媒體設計講座” (with CMYK), The Chinese Foundation Secondary School

Workshops

2015 – “new media new idea – infinite Creativity X Electronic Workshop”, Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, LCSD, Hong Kong
2014 – “Chinese Temple, Electronics and Heritage”, The Conservancy Association Centre for Heritage(長春社文化古蹟資源中心CACHe), Munsang College (九龍民生書院), Hong Kong
2014 – “From data to noise”, Videotage, Hong Kong
2013 – “How to make some noise and make it fly” (with Marco De Mutiis), K11 Art Mall, Hong Kong
2013 – “How to make some noise and make it fly” (with Marco De Mutiis), Energizing Kowloon East Office (EKEO), Hong Kong

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