Reflecting Location

Typ:

Creation of an exhibit and curating an exhibition

About:

Reflecting Locations is a research project with students from Hong Kong and Zurich that reflects on the ways that such dispositifs shape our understanding and our imagination of places where we have never been. Which mental images do we develop of the “other” (places)? On the basis of which information, projections and imaginations? How are these mental images related to media images we are getting of the physical and historical world? And what are the effects of the confrontation between mental images, media images and a physical presence on the “real” site where images (or in the case of compositing parts of them) have been shot?

Over the course of the project small teams of students from Hong Kong and Zurich will develop their questions regarding aesthetic, technical, and ethical issues of remote representations. They will first engage in an exchange over the Internet experimenting with formats, narratives, and technologies and log their findings. In a second step bilateral visits will facilitate the teams to intensify and revise their research.

Reflecting Locations is project initiated by Thomas Schärer and Birk Weiberg, Zurich University of the Arts, and realized with Linda Lai, Hector Rodriguez, and Chung Lee Kai, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, and students from Hong Kong and Zurich.

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Skills:

Multimedia Art

Create Video Collage

Scritpting & Video Editing

Curating and presenting