The Next Frontier of Art - Exploring Blockchain, Crypto and Metaverse with curator Angel Leung.
The Last Supper is a weekly podcast about art in Asia. Artist and entrepreneur Oscar Venhuis talks with fellow artists, collectors and gallerists about the current state of affairs in the world of art.
Angel Leung, digital art curator and project manager
Episode 17 | Angel Leung, a Hong Kong-born but London-based digital art curator, unpacked buzzwords from web3 to blockchain and the pitfalls of NFT art. We continued the dialogue and talked about her recent art projects, how the next generation of art collectors see ownership, we explored the paradox of mobility and we investigated what the future of digital art may look like.
Art projects that were discussed in this podcast:
Birds Without Legs, Art Basel, 2022 https://angellonkee.com/c/birds.html
Ersilia; Body Of The Gateway Cities, Alsace, 2022 https://angellonkee.com/c/ersilia.html
Juan Poyuan's It was just a virtual kiss, 2020, 10’05” https://both-sides-now.org/2022/04/juan-poyuan/
A brief of the web-based media festival "Foundation":
Foundation is a web-based media art festival with an educational approach to incubate art and technology research and encourage self-learning of the interested individual. It aims to groom a new generation of media art culture from Hong Kong and for Hong Kong in the new era of the Internet.
Over the last few years, Internet has become an essential platform for Videotage to disseminate, promote, and share knowledge with the general public, especially the young generation. The Covid-19 pandemic has further accelerated this development.
At the same time, the latest trend in Internet technology offers new potential for media artists to expand the boundaries of their creativity. Although the latest web technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, and web semantics have become hot topics in technology, their applications in contemporary art are yet fully discussed in Hong Kong. Artists also seldom have the opportunity to explore their potential, and interested students hardly find any local information and reference materials available.
In light of the above, Foundation strives to open the door to discuss, create, and learn about media art and Web 3.0 - a future vision of Internet technology.
Angel Leung is a multidisciplinary art curator, programmer, and writer. Currently the Programmes Manager of Videotage, she has organised programmes include ‘Artificial Landscape’ at SOGO Hong Kong (2019), ‘Centripetal’ at Art Basel (2019), Both Sides Now V: Queer (2019) with video club, ‘Reconstructing the Self – Performativity in Hong Kong’s Moving Image’ at LOOP Barcelona (2019), and curated ‘Sensory/Motor’ at Night of Ideas (2020). She also worked at Broadway Cinematheque in Hong Kong and organised film festivals including the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival (2017) and Agnes Varda Retrospective of Le French May (2018).
Angel finished her Master degree in Screen Art at Université de Strasbourg in 2016 and received her Bachelor degree in Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong in 2009. She is also a researcher, writer on moving images and co-edited the book David Lynch (Kubrick, 2017). Her articles are published on Stand News (HK).
Website Angel Leung | Instagram @angellonkee
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