SYSTEM DREAMS is an exhibition coordinated and organized by Ph.D. students of the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. It is a collateral program to the Art Machines 2 Symposium and it is intended as a space where current doctoral and MFA students can showcase their artwork, research, and other projects.
Digital technologies emerged as dreamy and liberatory tools full of promises of progress and equality. The connectivity afforded by the Web, for instance, was marketed as a decentralised virtual space where bodily matters were ‘transcended’ and access to information and knowledge would level up for everyone. For some, however, the digital dream turned out to become nothing short of a nightmare. What were the promises and assurances digital systems were supposed to fulfill? Which digital dreams did materialise and which did not? What dreams still haunt us?
SYSTEM DREAMS features works and research projects that invite us to reassess our relationship to technology in view of the current cultural and socio-political climate. The works presented in this exhibition, whether explicitly or subtly, tap into the complex and at times oneiric impact technological systems and digital media has had or potentially will have on our lives.
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SYSTEM DREAMS curatorial team
PARK Ji Yun
June 10, Thursday
12:30 - 22:00 All-Day Opening
18:30 - 19:15 Conference Reception at M3017, 3F
June 11, Friday
15:00 - 15:30 Sound Performance by FONG Kasin
17:30 - 18:00 Sound Performance by FONG Kasin
19:30 - 21:00 Performance by:
YANG Hao, Cody CHOW Chi Hang & XING Tong
Real-time connection with McaM Shanghai
June 13, Sunday
15:00 - 15:30 Lecture Performance by Kay Mei Ling BEADMAN
June 18, Friday
19:00 - 20:30 Selected Artist Talk:
LEE Yuk Ki Florence, Lukasz MIROCHA,
ZHANG Yujia & WAN Hu and
YANG Hao, Cody CHOW Chi Hang & XING Tong
June 19, Saturday
17:00 - 18:00 Featured Artist Talk:
Riar RIZALDI, and LIU Chang
18:15 - END Closing Reception