Dedicated to rebranding blackness and sharing an African perspective, especially black consciousness in Asia, Innocent Mutanga launched the Africa Center Hong Kong at the turn of 2019. The platform and creative hub has since gained traction with its on-site programmes seeing around 300 users in a week. The centre runs a range of on-site programmes from African Literature Book Club, Afro art jams, African cooking workshops, etc. In addition, the centre runs off-site cultural competency and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion […]
Based and works in Mexico City, Munoz works across textiles, performance, drawing, sound and experimental electronics to explore the relationship between technology and society with a special interest in the interaction between material forms and social discourse. Munoz often invites peripheral communities for creative production of e-textiles, involving local employees and businesses. She was a resident of the 2014 and 2016 programme at Nordic Artists’ Center Dale, Norway, at Kultur Kontakt, Vienna, Austria in 2015, at the Bauhaus Dessau, Germany […]
Mok Chiu Yu is a community cultural development worker, people’s theatre worker, performance artist and the founder of The 70’s Biweekly , Asian People’s Theatre Festival Society, Centre For Community Cultural Development (CCCD) and Hong Kong International Deaf Film Festival. He is a writer, translator, part-time lecturer at Lingnan University, independent filmmaker, awardee of Achievement Award in Drama by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 1999, conference organiser (including the World Congress of International Drama/Theatre & Education Association 2007 and […]
Annapurna Mamidipudi completed her PhD in the study of Science, Technology and Modern Culture at Maastricht University supervised by Wiebe Bijker in 2016. Using concepts from the history of technology as well as traditional Indian music Mamidipudi explored how innovation and creativity in Science and Art follow similar cognitive processes. She co-organised a seminar on Craft and Innovation in Kalakshetra, the premier Music and Dance institution, in Chennai in 2016, and a large conference bringing together more than 500 weavers […]
Ophelia Keung Ophelia Keung (Mrs Keung) is CEO and Founder of Rhys. Mrs Keung has over 30 years of experience working in the garment industry. After retirement, Mrs Keung became the primary caretaker of her mother who was housed at an elderly home, the experience led her to realise that garments for the elderly often lack style and utility. She believes that age and body conditions should not limit one’s access to fashion and a sense of dignity. Her experience […]
Yuk Hui wrote his PhD thesis at Goldsmiths College under the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler (1952-2020), and obtained his Habilitation in philosophy from Leuphana University in Germany. He has been teaching in various institutes including Goldsmiths College, Leuphana University, Bauhaus University, Chinese Academy of Art and currently City University of Hong Kong. Hui is a juror of the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture since 2020, and convenor of the Research Network for Philosophy and Technology since 2014. Hui published […]
Alexander R. Galloway is a writer and computer programmer working on issues in philosophy, technology and theories of mediation. Professor of Media Studies at New York University, he is author of several books on digital media and critical theory. He is currently finishing a new manuscript on the deep history of computation, scheduled to be published in autumn 2021. Image courtesy of the speaker
Laura Devendorf is an artist and a researcher who questions relationships between technology and culture by playfully subverting and reinterpreting categorisations of ‘machine’ and ‘body’. Her work presents alternative understandings of technology that draw heavily from feminist techno-science, trading notions of efficiency for engagement, control for humility, and individualism for cooperation and care. Her work takes the form of garments and tapestries with embedded electronics, open-source software and mixed-media systems. Devendorf is an assistant professor in the ATLAS Institute and […]
Sky Cubacub is a non-binary queer and disabled Filipinx artist from Chicago, Illinois. As a multidisciplinary artist and the creator of Rebirth Garments, they are interested in fulfilling the needs for disabled queer life, with an emphasis on joy, making a line of wearables that challenges mainstream beauty standards through centring queer and disabled people of all sizes, ethnicities, and ages. They are the editor of the Radical Visibility Zine, a magazine for queer and disabled people of all ages […]
Taeyoon Choi is an artist and educator based in New York and Seoul. He co-founded School for Poetic Computation in 2013, where he organised classes and taught experimental workshops. He is inspired by the poetics in science, technology, society and human relations. He works with computer programming, drawing and writing, in collaboration with fellow artists and community members. He believes in the intersectionalities of art, activism and education. He works with activists and scholars on disability rights, environmental justice and […]