< previous artist | next artist > Kingsley Ng (Hong Kong) Exhibited Artwork: Musical Loom 《音樂紡織機 》 (2005) Artist Statement: 藝術家陳述 The artist's work is usually site-specific inspired upon initial conception - then through different demographic groups that respond to the process and outcome of the art, the context then expands to universal dimensions. It is this conversation that examines the close relationship between art and its context, be it local, regional and/or global. Just as one can witness the wind by the blanket of movement across a meadow field, or see vibrations through a ripple across a mirror of water: the seemingly invisible revealed through this relationship is the aim in the artist's work - to make the forgotten or intangible a perceptible reality. 藝術家的工作，通常是由特定地點啟發初步構想後，再通過不同的群體作出對藝術的過程和成果的回應，擴展到普遍的層面。正是這種交流會診察藝術及其背景之間的密切關係，無論是本土性、區域性及/或全球性的。 正如人可以目睹風橫跨草場的動態，或波平如鏡的水泛起漣漪時看到振動；這種關係中揭示了看似無形的，正是藝術家工作的目的 ﹣使被遺忘或感覺無形的變成觸得到的現實。 Technical statement: 技術陳述 The original work transformed a 250-year-old antique loom (purchased from the Jacquard Museum of France) into a sound and image instrument. Festival 2007 invited Kingsley to especially create a Hong Kong version of the Musical Loom. With a single-screen projected onto the threads through a mirror, an IR camera and ultrasonic distance sensors are used for tracking. One can play on the threads like a harp and control 4-tone harmony and volumes by the hand's position in midair, generating a mechanical soundscape or malleable musical expression based on their interaction. 原本的作品是藝術家把一部有250年歷史的織布機（購自法國提花博物館），轉化成為一部音像樂器。Microwave邀請其特別為香港再建造一部，是通過一面鏡子將單屏幕投射在紡織機的線上，再以紅外線攝像機和超聲波距離傳感器追蹤用者的動作。觀眾可像豎琴般彈奏紡織機，以手的揮舞控制四聲和樂及音量，創造一個機械聲境、可鍛鑄的音韻。 < back to artist home