研究生的考察範圍、指向,是世界的未來的形骸,新知識的風向計,對現今時代的把脈。起家立說之前,往往是轉瞬即逝的珍寶 — 直覺、對問題的「肚腹」般的反應。我們要好好留著。完整的辯說,碎片,靈光一閃,大小故事,所見所聞,理念層次的穿線連點結網…。「在地」、「尋檔」、「書寫作為思考」等陸續有來。A network of ideas from doctoral researchers whose tentative thinking may value as much as well formed writings. Hear their voices. Michael Leung’s “ON LAND,” Vennes Cheng’s “THINK-PAD,” Lim Yeon-kyung’s “ACTING OUT” and more are arrivals…
THINK-PAD series records PhD researcher Vennes Cheng’s ongoing exploration for an alternative historiographic perspective that asserts the productiveness of histories deemed incomplete as they keep the door open for constant revision. Her objective is to revitalize our critical understanding of art in Hong Kong.
ON LAND is a series of on-going research notes by doctoral researcher Michael Leung with “Insurrectionary Agricultural Milieux” as his working thesis title. This series will start with a simple meal in the Basque Country in Spain and some noticeably repeating graffiti in Italy… “no TAV!” 梁志剛「在地」手記第一記,由一頓飯開始,英語、法語、西班牙話都好,總能溝通。…不管在那裡,只要留神,你會在交通幹線上的某處看到「no TAV!」。
有關Zoom的激烈討論至今已冷卻,如今又聽聞中學生要求罷用Zoom作網上學習。為了趕得上,黎肖嫻以這文章的上下集用自己的經驗為Zoom的爭辯寫個讀書報告。沒有純科技問題。如何活在大數據時代?Linda Chiu-han Lai follows her own footprints of using and struggling with Zoom since mid-February, and turns it into an extended reading report to situate her thoughts. This is part 2 to complete: how to live in a big data milieu?
有關Zoom的激烈討論至今已冷卻,如今又聽聞中學生要求罷用Zoom作網上學習。為了趕得上,黎肖嫻以這文章的上下集用自己的經驗為Zoom的爭辯寫個讀書報告。Linda Chiu-han Lai follows her own footprints of using and struggling with Zoom since mid-February, and turns it into an extended reading report to situate her thoughts.
Once again, what is “micro narratives”? Micro narratives is about stepping down from ,,, Some pieces you’ll never see because they stand for the struggle to push boundaries…
「我們需要少些完美的電影,但需要多些自由的電影。」Jonas Mekas 這話道出了《微敘事 2019: 在這,仍在,現在》的的根底。” We need less perfect but more free films.” Jonas Mekas’s words articulate the ethos and pathos of “Micro Narrative 2019: Right Here, Left Now, Out There”…
FP Writer and Artist Winnie Yan’s glimpses of the TIAF 2018 highlights how seeing differently in animation is rooted in the technology that evolves around and generates the art form. To some animation artists, the single frame, as opposed to the shot in live action film/video, is the basic unit of experimentation, or that all innovative animation works are intermedia in nature. Either way, the persistence of vision makes our eyes unique apparatus connecting to the world of the unknown imaginary.
An epilogue written on 22 June 2018 by Linda Lai for Videography. Micro Narratives. Temporal Beings. Our Manifesto / 2018]***黎肖嫻為《我們的錄像宣言》(2018)寫於2018年6月22日的「結語」。
FP writer/editor Winnie Yan reflects on her visit to the Taichung International Animation Festival (13-17 Oct 2017) and finds “concepts and theories” less learned in class. Traversing through works across generations and continents, she asks, “What is it that makes us willing to condense our life into a short string of images?” 忻慧妍問:是什麼令我們願意把自己的生命濃縮成一小段影像呢?
Linda Lai elaborates on a video art program she recently presented at the EXiS 2017 (Seoul) to map a trajectory of practices in contemporary video art in the Asia Pacific.