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HKU weekly notice (from October 31 to November 7, 2015)

30 Oct 2015

 

HKU to hold Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions

The University of Hong Kong (HKU) will hold an Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions on November 7, 2015. 

The Information Day aims to introduce HKU’s academic programmes and curriculum, campus facilities and student activities to members of the public, in particular secondary school students, teachers and parents. Information booths will be set up by the faculties and talks will be held on the wide variety of academic programmes offered. Teaching and learning facilities and halls of residents will be open to the public for a glimpse of HKU’s campus life.

Admissions Talks

JUPAS Admissions

Date: November 7, 2015

Time: 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

Venue: Grand Hall, Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre, LG/F, Centennial Campus

Non-JUPAS Admissions

Date: November 7, 2015

Time: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Venue: Grand Hall, Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre, LG/F, Centennial Campus

For media enquiries, please contact: Ms Trinni Choy (Assistant Director (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office) tel: 2859 2606 email: pychoy@hku.hk; Ms Melanie Wan (Senior Manager (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office) tel: 2859 2600 email: melwkwan@hku.hk; or Ms Rhea Leung (Manager (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office) tel: 2857 8555 email: rhea.leung@hku.hk .

Like.Follow.Comment.Repeat :A Mixed Media Exhibition
A Mixed Media Exhibition Explores How We Present Ourselves on Social Media Today, Drawing on Visual Research Conducted Between 2012-2015

‘The creation of all the machines and technology, along with the endless products of consumption, are useful to us, but we have become their slaves rather than their master.’ – Jane R. Thiebaud (2010, p117),Effects of Technology on People: Living F2F Conversation and Social Interaction, Proceedings of the Media Ecology Association, Volume 11

Like.Follow.Comment.Repeat is an art project that investigates how we present ourselves online, as well as, our online behaviors nowadays. Fundamentally, it takes images (profile pictures) and text (status) posted by the social media users as a starting point as a raw material, then develop into a series of mixed media works with usually found objects or merchandise from charity shops. Through these images and texts, it is not difficult to see collective behaviors, our influences by the mass culture, and the interconnectedness in modern society.

Artist bio:
Ko Lap Hang’s early works focus on using computer and electronic components to create installations, which has been publically shown in Brazil, Denmark, Hong Kong, Iceland, and United Kingdom. Lap Hang was granted a scholarship in 2008 from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council for his MA Visual Arts (Digital Art). The subject matter of his recent works focus on the critical view of social phenomenon, such as consumerism, self-consciousness, digital technology and Internet addictions etc.

Exhibition Opening Hour
Date: 5 November – 15 December 2015
Time: 10:30am – 6:00pm, Mondays to Fridays
Closed on Saturdays, Sundays and Public Holidays

More information about MC³@702 Creative Space:
Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/HkuMccc
Website: http://www.sociodep.hku.hk/mccc.html

For further enquiries:
Miss Connie Ko: (852) 3917 2309
Email: socimccc@hku.hk

UMAG exhibitions
1. “Mexican Big Bang” Famous abstract painter Roberto Turnbull
to exhibit first time in East Asia

Period: September 9 (Wednesday) to November 29, 2015 (Sunday)

The University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG), in collaboration with the Mexican painter Roberto Turnbull and with the support of the Consul General of Mexico in Hong Kong and Macao, will  present “Mexican Big Bang: Paintings by Roberto Turnbull” exhibition from September 9 to November 29, 2015. A selection of 26 remarkable artworks will introduce the work of the famous abstract painter for the first time in East Asia, displaying the painterly and architectural styles and themes that influenced his works.

Painter, sculptor and engraver Roberto Turnbull was born in Mexico in 1959, and his work has been internationally shown and collected since 1983. His paintings are often collages that contain sketches—figurative and abstract in style. Half factual document, half utopia, sometimes a dream or nightmare, many of Turnbull’s depictions are characterized by warm and bright colours and geometric forms that relate his two-dimensional work to three-dimensional sculpture and architecture.

Since the 1990s, Turnbull has experimented extensively with printing techniques and created unique prints by spreading a layer of paint onto a glass or metal plate upon which he draws and from which he prints before the pigments dry. This technique has allowed him to produce multi-layered images, many of which show fragmented bodies and an unconventional perspective that depicts figures and objects that do not respond to any predictable logic. In more recent years, Turnbull has built upon this method of constructing imagery, as he has abandoned representation or reflections of reality. The painter has developed a geometrism that forms a new kind of abstract or minimalist art.

2. “Mountains Ablaze: The Republic and the Sino-Japanese War (1912-1946)”
to display unique, historical documents of China’s past

Period: September 4 (Friday) to November 15, 2015 (Sunday)

“Mountains Ablaze: The Republic and the Sino-Japanese War (1912–1946)” is an exhibition detailing the history of China during the first half of the twentieth century from September 4 to November 15, 2015. Chinese history is world history --- the rich and wide-ranging selection of original archival documents such as manuscripts, letters, calligraphy and paintings that are rarely seen before will be on displayed to demonstrate not only the strength of its people but also that international connections, and public and diplomatic relations, are inseparable from China’s political and social developments.

This second sequence follows the first Mountains Ablaze exhibition: “Foreign Devils” and Chinese Patriots (1839–1911)’, which focused on the late Qing dynasty and Late Imperial China. Connected with the rise of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the present edition concentrates on the enormous efforts that went into building a republic and the foreign contact that influenced the politics of the day and China’s reception for years to come.

UMAG Opening Hours:
09:30 – 18:00 (Monday to Saturday)
13:00 – 18:00 (Sunday)
Closed on University and Public Holidays
Venue: 1/F, T.T. Tsui Building, UMAG, 90 Bonham Road, Pokfulam
Tel/Email: (852) 2241 5500 (General Enquiry) / museum@hku.hk
Admission: Free
Website: www.hkumag.hku.hk

Connect with UMAG on social media:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/umag.hku
Twitter: https://twitter.com/UMAG_HKU
Weibo: http://www.weibo.com/5411839295/profile?topnav=1&wvr=6

Media enquiries:
UMAG Communication Officer Miss Elena Cheung, Tel: (852) 2241 5512, Email: elenac@hku.hk