DIGITAL CALLIGRAFFITI is a community project which gives the chance to all social groups to freely share their messages, wishes and visions on burning issues of our society. It combines the traditional cultural techniques of calligraphy and graffiti with the possibilities of urban media art and new technologies. DIGITAL CALLIGRAFFITI facilitates the communication between the individual and the whole and transforms walls and digital screens into a canvas of civic expression to build bridges of intercultural understanding and promoting diversities as the medium to bring us closer.
During the MICROWAVE INTERNATIONAL NEW MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL in Hong Kong in November 2019, curated by Joel Kwong and Ellen Pau, we want to use DIGITAL CALLIGRAFFITI as an open platform of solidarity, exploring the challenging question: What can Urban Media Art do to foster a respectful dialogue in the current situation in Hong Kong? How can we use art to strengthen civil society and support social engagement?
Workshop：14:00-16:30
Performance ：16:30-17:30
Artist / Group Bio
DIGITAL CALLIGRAFFITI is initiated by Susa Pop, co-founding director of Public Art Lab Berlin in collaboration with the artist Michael Ang and Don Karl from Here to Fame Publishing.
Susa Pop is curating and producing urban media art projects worldwide with focus on translocal placemaking, citizen science and creative citymaking.
Michael Ang is a Canadian media artist and computer engineer based in Berlin. He invented the Infl3ctor in collaboration with Hamza Abu Ayyash.
The Infl3ctor is the interactive projection system for DIGITAL CALLIGRAFFITi's live painting to visualise the tags and statements on walls and urban screen in real-time.
Don Karl is co-founding director of From Here to Fame Publishing. He co-curates DIGITAL CALLIGRAFFITI programs with his network of international urban art & hip-hop artists and activists around the world. From Here to Fame Publishing produces literature about graffiti, street art, design and hip-hop scenes, and phenomena that surround it, we live it.
Friendly : ) is a known Hong Kong calligraffiti artist, freelance art director and amateur animated film maker based in Berlin. She developed Digital Calligraffiti from the very beginning. Friendly has been exhibiting her work since 1999.
Digital Calligraffiti is initiated by Public Art Lab in collaboration with From Here to Fame Publishing with the artists Michael Ang and Hamza Abu Ayyash.
Calligraffiti artist Friendly Liu @ Microwave Festival
Co-funded by the Goethe-Institut Hongkong and the European Union / Creative Europe.
