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BNY Mellon has announced the opening of Liminal Encounters – An Augmented Reality Exhibition at Asia Society Hong Kong Center (ASHK), which runs from 7th November 2018 until 6th January 2019. Liminal Encounters is described as one of the first outdoor augmented reality (AR) art exhibitions in Hong Kong.
The exhibition marks the 60th anniversary of BNY Mellon in Hong Kong and eschews the traditional gallery setting in favour of a journey through the museum using immersive technology. Each artwork is viewed at different locations through the museum, and features a unique AR component.
The AR components attached to each artwork can be experienced by using the Liminal Encounters BNY Mellon mobile app. The exhibition features five artworks with have been selected from the BNY Mellon collection, alongside three on-site installations commissioned from local artists.
David Cruikshank, Chairman of Asia Pacific, BNY Mellon said, “With more than a hundred years of serving clients in Asia Pacific, BNY Mellon chose Hong Kong as its first stronghold sixty years ago. We are proud to have played an important role in Hong Kong’s growth as a global financial centre and cultural hub. Liminal Encounters speaks directly to the importance of combining technology and innovation with creative thinking, especially in today’s fast-changing world. We remain committed to serving our clients and further investing in the city’s future.”
S. Alice Mong, Executive Director of Asia Society Hong Kong Center, said, “We are very proud to support BNY Mellon in presenting Liminal Encounters in Hong Kong. We are showcasing three local artists’ artworks and five artworks from the BNY Mellon collection with specific locations in our heritage site as a background. This exhibition is about art, technology and the environment, and provides a unique experience for the visitor. Technology can reshape art, art can provide the creative content for technology, and the environment ties them together. The effect is a wonderful collaboration of art and technology and its emotional transformation.”
Further information can be found on the BNY Mellon website. For future coverage of AR in art, keep checking back with VRFocus.
As Art Basel’s official virtual reality (VR) partner, HTC Vive has announced the first public presentation of two immersive artworks by Marina Abramović and Anish Kapoor from 29-31 March 2018 at Art Basel in Hong Kong.
Produced in collaboration with Acute Art, Rising by Abramović and Into Yourself, Fall by Kapoor mark the first time either artist has created an artwork using VR technology.
Rising addresses the effects of climate change by transporting viewers to witness rising sea levels, where they’ll come face-to-face with the artist, who beckons from within a glass tank that is slowly filling with water from her waist to her neck.
“In this moment of my career, I have been wondering how to transfer energy from body to body through the use of modern technology,” Abramović said in a statement. “This VR artwork raises questions about technology’s impact on human empathy through the lens of a pressing issue facing our world: climate change. Changes to the global climate threaten existing ways of living. Rising will offer people the chance to empathise and respond to the needs of others affected by this crisis. I am particularly interested in how audiences’ consciousness and energy will be affected by a virtual experience of helping others”
While Kapoor’s Into Yourself, Fall, is a surreal journey through the human body, with the artist explaining: “Into Yourself, Fall, takes us on a journey through the human body, experiencing the sensation of falling into yourself via this immersive medium. The work seeks to simulate vertigo as a descent inside the human body, depicting a labyrinth of the inner workings of the self.”
It begins with a forest scene. In a clearing viewers find a large black void in the ground. This takes them through a complex series of tunnels with walls that appear to be made of sinewy flesh and muscle. With this work, Kapoor invites users to experience a surreal sensation of exploring the unknown, with viewers losing themselves in another realm.
At the fair guests will be able to try both experiences on either the Vive Pro or Vive Focus in the HTC Vive Lounge. Rising and Into Yourself, Fall will also come to Viveport for users to try at home. As further collaborative efforts between HTC Vive and Art Basel are announced, VRFocus will keep you updated.
Actor Donnie Yen, known for his role in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, says production has begun on an adaptation of the video game Sleeping Dogs. The original game was released in 2012.
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