Phoebe Hui
We are delighted to announce a guest talk with Phoebe Hui at 15:00 on Wednesday 26th Feb 2025.
The session is part of SM5332 Making Things Blip, Blink & Move: Introduction to Physical Computing. If you are not currently studying on this course but would like to attend, please contact us as places are limited.
Phoebe Hui is an artist, researcher and art educator based in Hong Kong, China. Her research-based art practice explores how technology transforms our perception of reality. She is interested in exploring and exposing the structures and processes of technical and natural systems, and in experimenting with unexpected reconfigurations of our sense of reality through the creation of software and machines. Her recent research focuses on ideas drawn from the philosophy of science, language, and machine learning. She has worked with diverse media, including robotics, kinetic sculpture, installation and sound, generative art, comics and drawings.
Hui received her MFA at UCLA Design Media Art, Los Angeles, her MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, and her BA in Creative Media from City University of Hong Kong. Hui is devoted to art education and was awarded a Teaching Excellence Award in 2019. She has presented her research-based art practice and papers globally at such venues as Ars Electronica, ISEA, the MIT Media Lab, Asian Contemporary Art Week, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, Chinese Culture Center, Tokyo Experimental Sound and Art Festival, Hong Kong Palace Museum, Tai Kwun, Chi Art Space – K11 Art Foundation.
Hui is the recipient of a number of grants and awards. The Hong Kong Arts Development Council awarded her Artist of the Year (Media Arts) in 2022, and Young Artist of the Year (Media Arts) in 2012. She also received an Altius Fellowship, and also a United States-Japan Arts Program Fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council. She was granted an HKETO Yale-China Art Fellowship, which enabled her to conduct research and exhibit her works at Yale University. She is also the recipient of Bloomberg Emerging Artist Award, the grantee of Hong Kong Art Development Council Art Scholarship and a Hong Kong Design Association Design Student Scholarship. Recently, she was awarded the 5th Audemars Piguet Art Commission. The resulting large-scale installation “The Moon is leaving us”, marked the first Audemars Piguet Art Commission to be shown in Asia and Hui was the first female artist in Asia selected for this prominent award.
許方華是一位常居於中國香港的藝術家、研究員和藝術教育工作者。她的藝術創作以研究為本，探索科技如何改變我們對現實的觀感與理解，早期作品的多探索語言、聲音與科技之間的關係；近期的研究集中源自科學哲學、系統美學和機器學習的意念。她曾以多種媒介創作，如機械人、動態雕塑、裝置藝術、生成式藝術、聲音、版畫和繪畫等。
許氏擁有美國加州洛杉磯分校設計及媒體藝術藝術創作碩士學位、倫敦中央聖馬丁藝術與設計學院藝術碩士學位及香港城市大學創意媒體學院學士學位，致力投身藝術教育事業，並於2019年榮獲卓越教學獎。她曾於全球各地發表藝術研究實踐作品及論文，如奧地利電子藝術節、ISEA國際電子藝術研討會、麻省理工學院媒體實驗室、亞洲當代藝術週、大都會藝術博物館、國際創意藝術節、三藩巿中華文化中心、東京實驗聲音藝術節、香港故宮文化博物館、大館及K11藝術基金的Chi藝術空間。
許氏曾獲獎項包括香港藝術發展局藝術家年獎（媒體藝術，2022）及藝術新秀獎（媒體藝術，2012）、亞洲文化協會Altius獎助金和美國日本藝術計劃研究獎助金。除此之外，她曾獲香港經濟貿易辦事處（紐約）頒發耶魯中國藝術獎助金，促成她到耶魯大學進行研究及舉行展覽。她亦是彭博新一代藝術家資助獎、香港藝術發展局藝術獎學金及香港設計師協會設計學生獎學金的得主。2019年，她獲選為第五屆愛彼藝術委約計劃藝術家，是首位在亞洲獲選的女性藝術家，其創作《月逝無聲》亦成為首個於亞洲展出的愛彼藝術委約作品。