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Hong Kong Escape Views: Panotical Memories 

Hong Kong Escape Views: Panotical Memories 

an interactive art installation 

by Maurice Benayoun, with his team, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.

presented in Art Machines, Past/Present, Indra and Harry Banga Gallery, City University of Hong Kong, Nov 24, 2020 – May 02, 2021.

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Keywords: Exhibition, Life, Art, Science, Technology, New Media Art

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Project Details & Full Credits: https://benayoun.com/moben/2020/09/09/hong-kong-escape-views-panoptical-memories/ 

Exhibition Details: https://www.cityu.edu.hk/bg/exhibitions/art-machines/explore-the-objects--iv

 

Roles: 
Project & Production Manager, Video Editor, Photographer, 360 video Production
Main activities and responsibilities:

  • Production of the 360 video and Interactive Installation (Shooting, sound, editing, installing);

  • Project management, coordination, and production.

  • Artwork Documentation.

 
Projects Review
Traces of seeing
 

Hong Kong Escape Views: Panotical Memories is a commissioned artwork for the exhibition Art machines: Past/Present, from Nov 24, 2020, to Jan 31, 2021. As an extension of previous works, context and concepts from Hong Kong Escape Views, the narrative of SO.SO.SO. Somebody, somewhere, sometimes, a VR binoculars headset with a telescope-like piece ( a 3D telescoped shape designed by Tobias Klein) is used to view a series of spherical panoramas. The view of the audience with the telescope will leave a trace on the three-walls projection and be seen by the visitors. Their sign becomes their soft brush strokes (a radius with transparency) and gently paint on the canvas of projection with the colour of the sceneries they are looking at. The objects on the widescreen become more obvious as the people look at the same position in the VR longer. Shower speakers shower us with the sound of the city. The rules of this game are the same as the first version. People who look at the screen can see the viewer with the telescope moving their gaze from one position to another in VR. Once the viewer put down the telescope, the image stopped changing and started to scroll horizontally from left to right. 

A video documentation for this artwork is made to illustrate the whole process. 

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All images courtesy of Maurice BENAYOUN, Neuro-Design LaB, SCM, CityU HK, Charlie Yip

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