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9:00 AM-8:00 PM

LIGHTPLAY. Experimental Animation and the Bauhaus Legacy

Symposium und Performance|Symposium and Audiovisual Performance

  • School of Creative Media, Hong Kong

  • Free admission

Tempest © Robert Seidel

Organized by School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, in cooperation with Goethe-Institut Hongkong and Bauhaus Universität Weimar, AG Animation / AG Kurzfilm

14 September 2019, 9:00 AM - 8:30 PM,
City University of Hong Kong, School of Creative Media
 
Speakers:
Verina Gfader (University of Applied Arts, Vienna / Animate Assembly, London)
Max Hattler (School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong)
Nicolas Hens (Faculty of Art and Design, Bauhaus University Weimar)
Harald Kraemer (School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong)
Robert Seidel (Media Artist, Berlin)
Tamás Waliczky (School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong)
Tom Wolf (RIB Software SE, Stuttgart)
Yu Ka Ho Albert (School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong)

 

Audiovisual Performances by Max Hattler & Robert Seidel

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM, CityU, CMC, Multimedia Theatre
Info, contact & registration: Ms. ZHANG Riwen, riwezhang2@cityu.edu.hk

Max Hattler

Max Hattler © © Max Hattler Max Hattler © Max Hattler
Max Hattler, born 1976 in Ulm, is a German video artist and experimental filmmaker, based in Hong Kong. His complex oeuvre contains animation, video installation and audiovisual performance. Hattler investigates the relationships between abstraction, figuration and aesthetics. The interplay between sound and image and the associated connection between precision and improvisation play a special role for him.

After studying in London at Goldsmiths and the Royal College of Art, he completed a Doctorate in Fine Art at the University of East London. Hattler’s works have been presented around the world, including at Ars Electronica Festival, European Media Art Festival, Seoul Museum of Art, MoCA Taipei and Sónar Hong Kong. Awards include London International Animation Festival, Cannes Lions, Bradford Animation Festival, and several Visual Music Awards.

Max Hattler is an Assistant Professor at the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong.

Robert Seidel

Robert Seidel © © Christoph Beer Robert Seidel © Christoph Beer
Robert Seidel (*1977) began his studies in biology before transferring to the Bauhaus University Weimar to complete his degree in media design. His projections, installations and experimental films have been shown in numerous international festivals, as well as at galleries and museums such as the Palais des Beaux-Arts Lille, ZKM Karlsruhe, Art Center Nabi Seoul, Young Projects Los Angeles, Museum of Image and Sound São Paulo and MOCA Taipei. His works have been honoured with various prizes, including the KunstFilmBiennale Honorary Award and the Visual Music Award Frankfurt. 

In his work Seidel is interested in pushing the boundaries of abstracted beauty through cinematographic approaches, as well as ones drawn from science. By the organic interplay of various structural, spatial and temporal concepts, he creates a continuously evolving complexity. Out of this multifaceted perspective emerges a narrative skeleton, through which viewers connects to the artwork on an evolutionary-derived and phylogenetic-fixated symbolic level. Seidel lives and works in Berlin and Jena as artist as well as curator.