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De-clamation

Location: West Kowloon, HongKong - Soda Lake, Monjave Desert

2012

Much of the harbour shoreline of Hong Kong is reclaimed, and walking along West Kowloon one is suspended above water by earth moved and displaced. This artwork compares this with the streams of the Soda Dry Lake in the Mojave Desert where also a thin layer of earth conceals a flow of water below. This inversion of expected sound—hearing West Kowloon in such a remote site—forces the viewer to metaphorically tie land use in one of the most populated places on the planet with one of the most remote.

《釋海》

地點:香港西九的人造海 - 莫哈韋沙漠的蘇打湖

2012

維多利亞港大部分海岸線都由填海所得,沿西九海旁前進,實即在被移動及轉移至海面的泥土上走動。本作品將此概念與莫哈韋沙漠的蘇打湖的溪流比較,後兩者亦是薄薄的一層泥土覆蓋著流水。將期望的聲音倒轉──在偏遠的地點聽到西九的聲音──迫使觀賞者將世界上人口最稠密的地方與最荒僻的地方連在一起,形成土地使用上的隱喻。

About Media Art and the Environment

Media Art and the Environment is a new course in the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong that brings together environmental sciences and contemporary media art.  The course explores how emerging technologies can collect data about nature and how that data can be used in new forms of creativity and visualization.

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