Conversation on Technology, Art and Narrative

Conversation on Technology, Art and Narrative: In Conversation with New Media Artist Cao Shu

Date: 30 October 2019 (Wednesday)
Time: 5:00-6:30pm
Venue: CC Lounge, MB150, Main Building, HKU

Speaker: Cao Shu

Cao Shu mainly works in new media art in Hangzhou. His artworks focus predominantly in the mediums of animation and installation. More recently. Cao Shu works on the relationship between digital existence and memory, multi-view narrative in space, and viewing in CG rendering technology. In 2017, Cao Shu attended the Atelier Mondial artist residency program supported by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia. In 2019, he has attended Koganecho Japan Art Festival Residency. His works have won such awards as the New Narrative Award from A Long Week of Short Films, and the Beijing International Short Film Festival Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement. Recent exhibitions include “Koganecho Bazaar 2019” (Yokohama, Japan, 2019), “The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2018” (Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2019), “Fiction Art” (OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China, 2018), “Pity Party” (SLEEPCENTER, New York, USA, 2018), “Presence – Young Artist Exhibition” (China Academy of Art Museum, Hangzhou, China, 2018), DOK Leipzig (Leipzig, Germany, 2018), Hamburg “China Time” International Art Festival (Die Sammlung Falckenberg Hall, Hamburg, Germany, 2016).