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Schedule

IN-PERSON Barcelona. Section B

Urban Futures-Cultural Pasts
Arts with(out) a distance: The impacts of new media, artificial intelligence, and mixed reality on online arts production
C. Choy
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Abstract

The paper examined the opportunities and challenges brought by new media for artists, curators and cultural organizations in a post-pandemic context of Hong Kong. Many cultural organizations leveraged emerging forms of online arts to broaden the online arts market (Gurry, 2020). Artists and curators however argued that income from online production has remained limited, because audiences assume that online content should be free (UNESCO, 2020). Based on a grounded theory approach, a total of 24 interviews were conducted which included (1) senior management of cultural organization (e.g. division head of West Kowloon Cultural District), (2) arts marketers (e.g. marketing director of M+ museum), (3) exhibition curators (e.g. Curator at K11 Art Foundation), (4) creative workers producing online performances (e.g. dancer of City Contemporary Dance Company) and (5) independent artists. Findings showed that new media was initially considered as a temporary resort to engage audiences. However, more artists revealed the potential of artificial intelligence and mixed reality arts as an emerging genre of arts on participatory social media, metaverse, and interactive livestreaming. Curators (but relatively few performing artists) considered online media a contested site for experimentation of artistic production that touched upon the adaptation and resistance of technology in a (dis)connected world of solitude. The study is the first research mapping the landscape of online arts production in post-pandemic Hong Kong. The findings provide future implications on the ways online arts infrastructure, creative media platforms and online intellectual property literacy can be developed to support the cultural and creative industries.

Biography

Dr Christine Choy is the Associate Head and Assistant Professor of the Department of Art and Design at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. She has a PhD degree in Communication from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on arts, culture and well-being, new media and creative industries. Christine is the Principal Investigator of two on-going public research grant projects: “Art at home: The impact of new media and online cultural production on home-based arts engagement” and “Arts for well-being: The impact of arts engagement on parental stress and well-being”.