Ka Man Charlie, YIP
Artist-Educator - Curator - Producer (HK-CA)
Art Education, Curating Art, Media Art, Practice-based Research
charlie.yip010@gmail.com
Charlie Yip is a research-based artist, art educator and producer focusing on photography and videography. She creates art education programs that deal with planning, managing, and executing art education projects at the intersection of contemporary art, design, and digital media. She obtained her Master Degree in Creative Media from the City University of Hong Kong after completing a Bachelor of Fine Art in Cinema and Photography. She was Project manager of the Neuro-Design Lab under the supervision of Prof. Maurice Benayoun (2019-2022), Producer and production assistant of unstable.media.lab, and Performer/Member of ensemble mediatronic (2018-2019). She has been organizing various curatorial projects and creating interactive artworks in a team-oriented interaction, including HK Escape Views, Value of Values, Power Chess, Ars Electronica Garden HK 2020 and 2021, and more.
Projects
2023 - 2024
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“Bridging Perspectives: Climate Finance and Gender Equity” Online Photography Mentorship, Photography Mentor, RCAD Initiative, Toronto, Jan 2024.
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“I see me in your eyes”, Sef-portrait, acrylic on canvas, Artist, Empowering Faces Exhibition, Clark Centre, Toronto, March 2-28, 2024.
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"Wayfinders", Podcast, community art project, Empathy Squad, FIXT POINT Arts and Media, 2024. (Ongoing)
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“L’Amour Grande” Community Mural program, Muralist, participant, Next generation Arts, L'Amoreaux Community Recreation Centre, Toronto, 2023.
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“Homey Art Kitchen - Bread-Making Workshop”, life art, the Creator and Storyteller, with Storyteller 劉嘉誠 Mark Lau Ka-Shing at Oikwan Barbers, Oikwan Barbers, Project Oikwan, Gallery In-between, Cheung Chau Wave, Hong Kong, 15 Apr 2023.
2020 - 2022
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Curatorial Project - Learner at HART Curatorship Incubation Programme (CIP)
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Photo As Appreciation and Space Reading, Art Education event, with Artist Michelle Chan
- DïaloG - Aliens in the Telescope, art project
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Hong Kong Escape Views, Panoptical Memories & Hong Kong Escape Views for Ars Electronica Festival 2020 art project
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Somatic Workshop, Dance & Multi-Media
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Garden Hong Kong, Ars Electronica Festival 2021 curatorial project
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Garden Hong Kong, Ars Electronica Festival 2020 curatorial project
2018 -19
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Picturing The Bauhaus: Erich Consemüller’s Photography Exhibition and Workshop
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Unstable.media.lab 3{Water_3_ Modulation} - Concert Mediatronica, Exhibitions, Educational Workshops & Mini Concerts: unstable.media.lab:54 @54, unstable.media.lab:4 meditation on seeing the sound of sea
Publications
2020 - 2021
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"Garden Hong Kong" Teaser, Yip, Ch., The concept creator and editor., Chaired by Benayoun, M., Teaser featuring selected works from artists, Garden Hong Kong, Ars Electronica Festival 2021, September 8-12, 2021.
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"Taste Your Soil" , Yip, Ch., et al., Chaired by Benayoun, M., Video, Community Project, Garden Hong Kong, Ars Electronica Festival 2021, September 8-12, 2021.
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"Experts of the Future", Yip, Ch., et al., Chaired by Benayoun, M., Video, Community Project, Garden Hong Kong, Ars Electronica Festival 2021, September 8-12, 2021.
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"DïaloG, The First Aliens’ Encounter, Introduction video" , Benayoun, M., Edited by Yip, Ch., Introduction video, presented in the exhibition Constructing Contexts, curated by Klein, T., Guzman S.-R., Art Machines 2: International Symposium on Machine Learning and Art 2021 (AM2), School of Creative Media, Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong, 10 – 20 Jun. 2021.
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"And the Ship Sails On, art.practice.research exhibition trailer", Yip, Ch., Concept creator and editor, Video, featuring selected works of artists, Video, Curated by Pebo, M. and Guzman S., C.R., produced by Kim, E. and NAO collective, JCCAC Hong Kong, July 5-11, 2021.
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"Giving shape to human values. Real-time short cut from the brain to the blockchain" Video, Benayoun, M., Yip, Ch., Video, edited version of the Closing RealTime Performance, RealTime Conference, April 29, 2021.
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“Points de Vue Irreconciliables" , Benayoun, M., co-authored by Buren D. Edited by Yip, Ch., Video triptych, 1993-2021.
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"Power Chess" Trailer", Benayoun, M. Edited by Yip, Ch., video, 2021.
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"Hong Kong Escape Views, Panoptical Memories" video , Benayoun, M., Yip, Ch., et al., Documentation video of a 360 interactive online installation, VR binoculars, 3 channels video projection, for Art Machines, Past – Present, Exhibition, Nov 24, 2020- Feb 21, 2021.
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“Solo Exhibition III: Maurice Benayoun” Introduction to Value of Values , Benayoun, M., with Nicolas Mendoza, and Tobias Klein. Edited by Yip, Ch., Video, Hong Kong Garden and Garden Thessaloniki, Kelper’s Garden, Ars Electronica 2020 Festival, Neuro-Design Lab, ACIM, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Sept 9 – 13, 2020.
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"Hong Kong Garden 2020" Teaser, Yip, Ch., Editor and concept creator. Chaired by Benayoun, M., video, featuring selected works from artists, Hong Kong Garden, Kelper’s Garden, Ars Electronica 2020 Festival, Neuro-Design Lab, ACIM, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Sept 9 – 13, 2020.
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"Value of Values, Transactional Art on the Blockchain" , Benayoun, M., Yip, Ch., full video, 2020.
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“High-Frequency Trading of Values” , Benayoun, M., with Yip, Ch., Video, urban screen, 2020.
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Sound Art Performer as Bass Guitarist, Freedom Music & Art Fair, ensemble mediatronic, fm+workshop, JCCAC, Hong Kong, 3 Jun, 2018.
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"Unstable.media.lab 3{Water_3_ Modulation} - Concert Mediatronica,", Programme 01 and Progamme 03, Yip, Ch., Bass guitarist, Vocalist, et al, Performance, The Hong Kong Art Centre, 22, 25 Sep, 2019.
JOURNAL
Ray, LC, Benayoun, M., Lindborg, P., Yip, Ch., et al, “Power Chess: robot-to-robot nonverbal emotional expression applied to competitive play”, ARTECH 2021, accepted paper, 2021.
Awards
2019
Not as trivial as you think: Hong Kong Art Quiz on Collaboration
C & G Artpartment
Work Experience
Now
Freelance Artisic advisor
Apr - Aug 2022
Assistant Officer of Student Affair Office, Hong Kong PolyTechnic University
Sept 2019 - Mar 2022
Project manager of Neuro-Design Lab, under the supervision of Prof. Maurice Benayoun
Research Associate, The School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong
2018 - 2019
Producer, Production Assistant,
Project Intern, unstable.media.lab; Hong Kong
Performer/Member, ensemble mediatronic; Hong Kong
(Media art project and post rock electronic music band founded by artist Makin Fung Bing Fai, fm+ workshop)
Feb - May 2019
Lead Student Representative;
Curatorial Project, The School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong
Education
2018 - 2019
Master of Arts in Creative Media, Stream in Curating Arts and Media
The School of Creative Media,
City University of Hong Kong
2014 - 2018
Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours in Cinematic Design and Photographic Digital Art
The Hong Kong Metropolitan University
Skills
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Photography, Videography, Graphic Design, and Audio-Visual Production
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Adobe creative softwares
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Proficient in English and Native in Chinese (Cantonese, Mandarin)