Grants/Commissions
The Australia Council for the Arts
Screen Australia (Australian Film Commission)
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Danish Broadcasting Corporation
Netherlands Program Service (NPS). Holland
Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA). Spain
The Hong Kong Arts Centre. Hong Kong
Australia-China Council through Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
The Ian Reed Foundation. Australia
Videotage. Hong Kong
Big hArt Inc. Australia
d/Lux Media Arts. Australia
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. Australia
Ian Potter Cultural Trust. Australia
Danish Music Information Centre. Denmark
Zeppelin Sound & Media Art Festival. Barcelona / The Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
Nordlys Ensemble. Denmark
Musica Mirabilis. Denmark
Extra/Ordinary Dress Code: Costuming and Second Skin in Asia. Symposium and Exhibition. Hong Kong
Synergy Percussion. Australia
austraLYSIS. Australia
Katrien Jacobs. Hong Kong / Belgium
Education
Master of Arts degree in advanced composition. Macquarie University, Sydney Australia.
Prizes/Nominations
Hong Kong: City In Between – Prize-winner in the Soundscapes (be)for(e) 2000 festival in Amsterdam. Holland
The Sound of Forgetting – Australian Broadcasting Corporation Music entry for the 2005 Karl Sczuka Prize Südwestrundfunk. Germany
Marking Time – Australian Broadcasting Corporation Music entry to the 2000 Karl Sczuka Prize Südwestrundfunk. Germany
Impermanence – Australian Broadcasting Corporation Music entry to the 1996 Prix Italia. Naples, Italy
Artist Residencies
2023
Barcelona Artist Residency. One month residency at L’Estruch, Fàbrica de Creació de les Arts en Viu, Sabadell, Spain. Shoot scenes for Art e Fact Feature Film.
2022
Sabadell Artist Residency. Two month residency at L’Estruch, Fàbrica de Creació de les Arts en Viu, Sabadell, Spain. Shoot proof of concept scenes for Art e Fact Film project.
2021
Italy Artist Residency. Two week residency at in Domicella Campania, Italy supported by Kulturfactory. Research and Development for i22 Film project.
2019
Bogotá Artist’s Residency. One month residency in Bogotá Colombia at LIA LAB (Interdisciplinary Laboratory for the Arts). Research and Development for i22 project exhibition at LIA.
2007
Hong Kong Artist Residency. Eight months. Supported by Arts & Culture Outreach Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong, Asialink residency through the Australia Council for the Arts, the Australia-China Council through Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
Visiting Scholar. Eight months. University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre.
2003 – 4
New Media Artist Residency Sydney. Six months. The Listening Room – Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Supported by The Australia Council for the Arts.
2003
Barcelona Artist Residency. Four months. Orquestra del Caos – an organisation dedicated to artistic research in the field of sound & media art. Based at CCCB (Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona). Supported by Australia Council for the Arts.
Exhibitions | Screenings
2022
The Hong Kong Agent: 18 Short Films About Hong Kong
Film. 01 /05/2022-31/08/2022 Hallucinatory Hereafter – M+ Mediatheque. Kowloon, Hong Kong
2017
The Hong Kong Agent: Vertical Narratives
Film. 30/6/2017-29/7/2017. Reload_HK Project at Cattle Depot Artist Village – Kowloon, Hong Kong
Geminoid Tear
Film. 18 -21 May 2017. Athens Digital Arts Festival. Greece ADAF Festival
2013
The Hong Kong Agent: Vertical Narratives
Film. La Rada Space for Contemporary Art A side event of the 66th Festival del film Locarno, Switzerland. 07 ~ 17 August 2013. Presented by Videotage & Fair-Play
Vertical Narratives
Film. TEMP Art Space – Living As Form (Wikitopia Version). NEW YORK. 01 December 2012 ~ 31 January 2013. Presented by Videotage and ICI’s Curatorial Hub
2012
Vertical Narratives
Film. Microwave Festival 2012 – Living As Form (Wikitopia Version). Hong Kong. 03 ~ 18 November 2012 info
2010
Daimaru Ghost Bus
Film. VAFA – Video Art For All. Macau. 12 Nov~ 03 Dec VAFA
Routine Duet
Film. VAFA – Video Art For All. Macau. 12 Nov~ 03 Dec VAFA
Spectral Times
Film. VAFA – Video Art For All. Macau. 12 Nov~ 03 Dec VAFA
Vertical Narratives
Film. 23rd Festival Les Instants Vidéo in partnership with Anemic Festival Prague. Czech Republic. 4~ 16 November.
Vertical Narratives
Film. 20th Seoul International New Media Festival 2010. Korea. 12~ 13 August
2009
The Masked Woman of Kyoto
Film. Videotage Hong Kong. China. 10-24 December
Dream City
Film. Kyoto City Hall ‘Imagine you + Kyoto in 10 years’ competition. Japan. 27 Oct – 4 Nov.
The Holographic Ear
Film: International Festival Signes de Nuit Program @ REJECT Festival Rotterdam (NL), January/February
2008
The Hong Kong Agent
Transmedia Installation. Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong, China, August
The Hong Kong Agent
Installation. Lismore Regional Gallery, NSW. Australia, December/January
The Hong Kong Agent
Installation. Gallery 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (Sydney, Australia, July.
The Holographic Ear
Film: The 6th Festival Signes de Nuit – Paris, France, April.
Forat de La Vergonya
Film: Fehva , Byron Bay, Australia, March.
2007
City in Between
Sound Art + Works on Paper. In Midair Festival, Hong Kong, China, 1a Space, Hong Kong, China. June/July.
The Holographic Ear
Exhibition Film: The 6th International Kansk Video Festival Kansk, Russia, September.
2006
Forat de La Vergonya
Film: EXiS 2005 Experimental Film + Video Festival Seoul, Korea
Forat de La Vergonya
Film. Architects for Peace Melbourne, Australia.
2005
Black Sheep
Film: Videomedeja 9th International Video Festival 2005, Serbia
Black Sheep
Film. dEadly diGital scReen aRt tOur 2005 Alice Springs, Australia Boohoray ABC Digital, Australia
2004
Forat de La Vergonya
Film: Zeppelin Festival, Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB), Barcelona, Spain, May.
A Japanese house, My favorite place, The sky
Film: Cielo, Todo Alrededor – Sky, All Around. Zeppelin Festival, Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona(CCCB), Barcelona, Spain, May.
Black Sheep
Multi Channel Projection + Sound Art. 24HRArt Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art, Australia, November.
2002
Hong Kong: City in Between
Sound Art: En red 0 Cityphonics 17 @ Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona(CCCB), Barcelona, Spain, December.
1999
Marking Time
Exhibition: Australian Perspecta 1999: Living here now – art and politics. August/September.
Broadcasts
2018
The Edwin Armstrong Overture | Marking Time | Silent Motion | Vanunu | Congo | Zimbabwe | Lingo Babel | Whyitiso |City in Between
49.3 Radio – France
City in Between
Opposition de Phase RCV99FM Lille, France
2016
City in Between
The Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española RTVE
2015
The Edwin Armstrong Overture
Friday 28 August and Sunday 31 August. Australian Broadcasting Corporation – Radio National. Presented on SOUNDPROOF program
2012
Barcelona Experimental Music Series
Music Documentary. Into The Music & New Music Up Late. ABC. From 11 August.
2011
Sonic Kyoto
Soundscape Composition. Into The Music. ABC.
Post Human TNA version
The Night Air program. ABC, Australia. March.
Silk on Wood
Into the Music program. ABC, Australia. October.
The Veena: Instrument of Devotion
Into The Music program ABC RN October.
2010
Geminoid Tear
360 Documentaries, Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 23 Nov
Post Human
360 Documentaries, Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 23 Nov
The Edwin Armstrong Overture
Frequency Oz – An On Air Festival Of Australian Radio Art. Broadcast on Resonance 104.4fm (London). September 2010.
The Veena: Instrument of Devotion
Into The Music program ABC Radio National.
2009
Rise Above The Living
Supplement. NPS, Netherlands, January 5
Rise Above The Living
RAI Radio 3 File Urbani: By Paola De Angelis. Italy, 17 October.
2008
The Hong Kong Agent
The Night Air program ABC Radio National, Australia, April
The Hong Kong Agent
All Day Every Day program Resonance 104.4fm, London, UK, May
Silk On Wood
Into The Music program , ABC Radio National, Australia, May
Museum
The Night Air program , ABC Radio National, Australia, May
2007
Limbo
The Night Air program , ABC Radio National, Australia, June
2006
Rise above the Living
Music up Late program ABC Classic FM, Australia, June.
The Wounding Song
ABCRN Online, Australia.
Vaganza Malti
ABCRN Online, Australia.
Shackified
No Place Like Home program Resonance 104.4fm, London, UK, October
Shacks
The Night Air program , ABC Radio National, Australia, June
Blood
The Night Air program , ABC Radio National, Australia, August
2005
A Shack at the Edge of the World
Radio Eye program, ABC Radio National, Australia, October
Shacks
The Night Air program , ABC Radio National, Australia, October
2004
The Sound of Forgetting
The Listening Room program, ABC Classic FM, Australia.
Blood
The Night Air program , ABC Radio National, Australia, November
2003
Goddesses & Rabbits
The Listening Room program, ABC Classic FM, Australia.
Limbo
The Night Air program , ABC Radio National, Australia, June
Museum
The Night Air program , ABC Radio National, Australia, September
2002
Malta-Inland
The Supplement program, Netherlands Program Service(NPS), The Netherlands.
Mixing the MCA
The Listening Room, ABC Classic FM. June.
2001
Heartwork
The Listening Room, ABC Classic FM.
Black Sheep
Radio Eye, ABC Radio National.
2000
The Edwin Armstrong Overture
City In Between
Silent Motion
Marking Time
Kunstradio Austria
Fire, Water, Speed
2JJJ Radio ABC.
1999
Marking Time
The Listening Room. Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
1998
Silent Motion
The Listening Room. Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
1997
The Edwin Armstrong Overture
The Listening Room. Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Hong Kong: City in Between
The Listening Room. Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
1996
Impermanence
The Listening Room. Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
1994
Vanunu
The Listening Room. Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Seminars, Presentations + Workshops
2019
Seminar @ The National University of Colombia Master of Visual Arts Students – A socio-political approach to narrative art.
2014
Presentation @ Room 801 Sydney Australia – a niche anime convention held in Sydney, Australia for over-18s only, with a special focus on yaoi and yuri. “Real Love in a Synthetic World”
2014
Presentation @ Doshisha University Kyoto. “Breathless: Inanimate Love in Japan”.
2014
Presentation @ Japan Studies Program at Doshisha Women’s College for Liberal Arts Kyoto. “Real Love in a Synthetic World”
2012
Presentation @ Radio Beyond Radio. Sydney Australia. Making it Real: Conceptualising and Realising Stories Across Multiple Platforms. A range of creative practitioners come together to discuss the future of radio in Australia 3 – 7 September 2012. Presented by The Ian Reed Foundation and ABC Radio National in association with the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism, University of Technology Sydney.
2010
Presentation @ Kyoto Art Story. Museum of Kyoto. Kyoto. Japan. Title: Making Art About Kyoto: In search of the Prefect Cyborg.
Presentation @ Pecha Kucha Night Kyoto Hosomi Museum. Kyoto. Japan. Title: Post Human Japan
2009
Presentation @ Kyoto University Art + Design. Artlink International Salon. The Hong Kong Agent.
2008
Presentation @ FEHVA – Visual Arts Festival. Byron Bay, Australia. The art of digital capture.
2007
Seminar @ Lingnan University. Hong Kong. Cultural Studies Department. Chaired by Prof. Meaghan Morris. Co-organized with Visual Studies + Department of Philosophy. Sound / Image / Text : Narrative structure in a concrete world.
Colloquium @ The University of Hong Kong Department of Music. Chaired by Giorgio Biancorosso. Sound / Image / Text : Narrative structure in a concrete world.
Seminar @ School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. Chaired by Linda Lai. Media Concrete and Music.
Seminar @ School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. Chaired by Linda Lai. The Hong Kong Agent.
2006
Seminar @ University of Los Andes. Bogotá, Colombia. Music Department. Media Concrete and Music.
2004
Conference paper @ “Sounding Out a Cultural Heritage” ScreenSound Australia, ACT. Organized by ASRA (Australian Sound Recordings Association) The Sound Of Forgetting – Archives and the Sound Artist
3 Day Media Concrete Workshop + Presentation @ Zeppelin Festival, Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB), Barcelona, Spain. Forat de la Vergonya + The Sound of Forgetting: Sonic Artefacts#1.
2003
Talk @ OPEN AIR RADIO 03 – Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB), Barcelona, Spain. City in Between.
1999
Sound Art & Radio Workshop @ University of Sydney, Australia. The Making of Hong Kong City in Between
1998
Presentation @ Royal Academy of Music, Copenhagen, Denmark. Simultaneity in Music.