Hacking Public Space: searching for past, present and future conditions?
By Eva De Groote and Thibaut Verhoeven (Belgium)
騎劫公共空間?
伊蛙．?格特及?寶特．范赫文 (比利時)

4/12/2010 | 1400 - 1500
Exhibition Hall, Low Block, Hong Kong City Hall
香港大會堂低座展覽廳
Artistic and ephemeral actions in public space are not new in western contemporary art world. Since the 70s in the 'plastic' arts and the 90s in media art, artists 'hacked' the real or virtual public space with evenly various artistic interventions. The debate 'Hacking Public Space: searching for past, present and future conditions?' does not claim to be an extensive art historical overview about artistic flash mobbing. This debate attempts to point out possible differences or similarities in approaching such actions by contemporary media artists in respect to their past, present and even future spatial and content conditions. This debate will also expose possible intercultural similarities or differences by mutually looking at the Belgian and Hong Kong version of the project 'Electrified II: Hacking Public Space', both presented at the Project Room Exhibition, Exhibition Hall, Hong Kong Film Archive, Microwave International New Media Arts Festival 2010.
於西方當代藝術，在公共空間進行短暫的行為藝術並不罕見。自七十年代塑膠藝術及九十年代媒體藝術開始，藝術家以各種不同的方法騎劫真實及虛擬的公共空間。「騎劫公共空間：尋找歷史、現狀及未來方向？」不是一個藝術快閃表演的歷史回顧。是次研討會因應「當代媒體藝術家於過去、現代與未來的空間和內容」討論對快閃表演藝術的不同態度。是次研討會亦會比較'Electrified II: Hacking Public Space'在香港及比利時的表演，討論兩地的文化相同及差異之處。'Electrified II: Hacking Public Space'將會於微波國際新媒體藝術節 2010 實驗D場(香港電影資料館展覽廳）中展出。