Animatronica Microwave International New Media Arts Festival Animatronica presents a platform to witness technology as critical challenges to our pre-conceived notion of existence, presence, control, power, time and sustainability. The festival has invited seven new media artists who use surveillance devices to create interactive works. It facilitates a fun process that brings us closer to a new consciousness. In most culture, life entails movement and interaction with the environment. In Animatronica, machines moves and interact with the environment as if they are animated, given lives. As a result of audiences' participation, the works respond with images, light and sound. The curator set out to investigate the use of surveillance devices in new media arts, in an attempt to seek how these works facilitate the understanding of technology-enhanced space in contemporary society. Surveillance mechanisms, sometimes perceived as elements of intrusion to privacy, is being presented to the audience in a fun, enigmatic manner. The devices, mobilized by artists' creativity, allow viewers to witness expansion of their physical existence. The exhibition space is constructed as a technological laboratory where the public is invited to engage and experiment in a playful manner. The artists encourage audience to participate: the show could not be defined without the active participation of audiences. The exhibition would not be complete without the interaction of the public. Exhibition Date: 5-15.11.2006 Time: 11:00am-8:00pm, Daily Venue: Exhibition Hall, Low Block, Hong Kong City Hall (map) Free Admission Exhibition Opening Date: 4.11.2006 Time: 5:30pm Venue: Exhibition Hall, Low Block, Hong Kong City Hall (map) Artists Rafael Lozano-Hemmer - Canada Camille Utterback - USA Alvaro Cassinelli - Uruguay Philip Worthington - U.K. Max Kazemzadeh - USA Daniel Shiffman - USA Daniel Sauter - Germany Jin-Yo Mok - South Korea X-D Animation Award Winners - Hong Kong Microwave X-D Animation Award 2006 Prize Presentation Date: 5.11.2006 Time: 2:00pm Venue: Exhibition Hall, Hong Kong Film Archive (map) Microwave X-D Animation Award Show Date: 5-15.11.2006 Time: 10:00am-8:00pm, Fri-Wed (Closed Thur) Venue: Exhibition Hall, Hong Kong Film Archive (map) Tribute to Nam June Paik: Special Lecture and Screening Program Date: 11,13-15.11.2006 Venue: Exhibition Hall, Hong Kong Film Archive (map) Events Conference Electronic Mediated City-Wide Performance Artist Talks Workshops Animatronica Exhibition Tours