Roads and buildings, they are the intersection points of our daily visual experience in Hong Kong . In Fast Shuffle, we collect a number of videos which show how the flashes of city act as a cultural text, presenting the landscape of concrete jungle and cultural desert, speaking of an authentic identity in this artificial organism or living mechanism which we called home.
Mapping Vapour - Jamsen Law
Record Himself - Kwan Ng
Visible City – Li Hong Ting
Bombastic verses - Pun Tak Shu
A very good City - Mathias Woo
Drifting Review - Reine Wong
on the road - Ernest Fung
Very Fantastic - Stella So
The Other – Lam Wai Kit
MATCHING FOUR WITH TWELVE: MAPPING VAPOUR四搭十二: 蒸發地圖
by LAW Jamsen 羅琛堡
10:26 / 2002
Pixel as vapour, colour as mist. What happens if we start to localize the non-localisable? There is always a map regarding matters appearing on the verge of perception - desire, memory, a hint of smell or a lingering of touch. These affects surface occasionally here and there but they always leave a trace of their existence. Images are essentially traces.
People as vapour, desire as mist. What happens if we begin to multiply the stable and the original? Relations are always about multiplications what I have with you will endlessly repeated and proliferated with all the others. The definition of promiscuity is that of fluids the only thing that can be repeated is what is different to itself. The constant change of ebb and flow maps out the flux of desire: we don1t want more of the same, only more of the new.
Mapping Vapour is the second installment of the Matching Two by Four series. It is a repeat of something completely different.
像素如蒸氣，顏色像薄霧，集中邊緣會是怎樣? 處於邊緣的知覺 – 欲望、記憶、微量的氣味及絮絮的觸覺構成地圖，在其表面留下了存在的蹤跡，影像的本質上就是蹤跡。
人如蒸氣，欲望像薄霧，穩定與原始相乘起來會是怎樣? 我與你之間的關係沒完沒了的重覆著，混雜的定義只是與別不同，均速改變的流動聯繫到欲望的流動：我們要的不是相同的，而是新的。＜蒸發地圖＞是＜四搭十二＞系列的第二集，是一個完全不同的重覆。
About Jamsen Law 羅琛堡
Jamsen Law is a prominent young experimental artist in Hong Kong. Before his graduation from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Hong Kong, he has already actively participated in theatrical and video productions and was one of the core members of a multimedia art group, 20 Beans + A Box. Their works include Every Single Other Territories (My Own Idiosyncrasy Garden) in Hong Kong Arts Festival 1998. He now continues to collaborate with dancers and musicians. His independent video works, such as Getting Used to Run, has got the Gold Award (MTV) in Hong Kong Independent Film and Video 1997 and the Award of Excellence in Image Forum 1998, Japan. He also had his solo screenings in Toronto, Tokyo, and Busan. He taught at the School of Creative Media in City University of Hong Kong between 2000 and 2004, at the same time, he gave guest lectures and workshops in other local institutes. He is now doing his research on media aesthetics in Institute of Advanced Media Art and Science in Japan and is one of the directors of Microwave International Media Art Festival in Hong Kong.
羅琛堡畢業於香港中文大學藝術系及香港大學比較文學系，一向從事實驗性創作，自1993年起參與廿豆．盒子畫，探討視藝與演藝之間的可能性。他亦從事錄影及錄影裝置創作，其中作品<習慣走>曾榮獲獨立短片及錄像比賽（音樂錄像組）金獎，並在日本的Image Forum得到一優異獎；曾參與錄影太奇的V-TEXT等製作，並統籌該團於臨時市政局的駐場計劃；從1999年起，他積極參與藝術教育工作，曾替前進進工作坊、進念．二十面體及藝穗會等帶領課程；熱衷文化交流，曾作悉尼藝術空間的駐館藝術家，及獲邀至波蘭Castle of Imagination作客席藝術家。於香港城市大學創意媒體學院任教期間，曾為香港藝術雙年展及香港獨立短片及錄像比賽擔任評審，並出任錄影太奇主席。現於日本攻讀媒體科技碩士課程，並為微波國際媒體藝術節總監。
RECORD HIMSELF (LIFT) 自拍(升降機)
By NG Tsz-kwan 吳子昆
7:48 / 1987
Record Himself (Lift) explores the mechanisms of the video transmitter and receiver. As the artist moves between floors via an elevator lift, the video camera / recorder / transmitter / receiver acts as a space meter and locator. Losing and regaining the signal and the level of noise becomes another tool to measure a living space or architecture.
自拍(升降機) 嘗試利用這段片來探查影像發射器與影像接收器的工作方式。主角在升降機中上上落落，攝錄機/發射器/接收回就形心了測器和定位儀一樣。訊號的強弱，出現與消失，和雜音的大小成為了另一個量度生活空間的工具。
About NG Tsz-kwan 吳子昆
Ng received his BA from the department of Fine Arts of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (1997) and MA from the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London (2000). NG actively participates in exhibitions in Hong Kong and overseas. Participated exhibitions include 1/36 runaway spatial tram projects Helsinki-Hong Kong (Tram no.T3, Helsinki 2000), Glasses and Blinker (Contemporary Art Gallery, Switzerland, 2001), and Polarflex (AROMA Gallery, Berlin 2001). He was the Artist-in-residence at Ecole Cantonale d’art du Valais in Switzerland, 2001.
於1972年生於香港，畢業於香港中文大學藝術系，自1997年起, 致力於混合媒體藝術創作。2000年獲取倫敦中央聖馬田學院藝術及設計碩士學位。曾獲邀參與多個本地及海外展覽和演出，包括芬蘭赫爾辛基，瑞士及柏林，並於2001年邀請到瑞士擔任駐場藝術家。其作品主要以數碼媒體探索人類感官和行為，現時策劃多個數碼媒碼體互動及錄像創作。
VISIBLE CITY 看得見的城市
by LI Hong Ting 李康廷
5’/2004
Festivals: Microwave International Media Art Festival (Hong Kong), New Media Art Festival Ver 0.8 (Seoul, Korea), Backup Festival 2005 (Weimar, Germany)
the origin of the"Visible City" footage is talk-of-the-town. Some say it is taken from a security surveillance system, some say it is a mysterious reception during a TV maintenance, some say visible city has no real existence, it only exists on the TV screen, some even say that visible city never exists at all, but some say that wherever there is a TV, there is visible city.
透過保安系統的錄像紀錄，城市看得見的有幾看得見?
About Hong Ting Li
Li was born and raised up in Hong Kong, he is a graduate of School of Design of Hong Kong Polytechic University.
李康廷生於1979年，在香港成長，畢業於香港理工大學設計學院。
BOMBASTIC VERSES打落十八層之身體福音
by PUN Tak-shu 潘德恕
4:00 / 2000
A warm-up show by a group of dancers and Pun in Oil Street Art Village.
一個由潘德恕和一群舞者在藝術村的熱身表演。
About PUN Tak-shu
Started from 1984, Pun worked as a local avant-garde musician making soundtracks for independent film productions.
自一九八四年首次參與實驗電影之配樂工作後，開始從事音響設計及製作。多年來參與劇場製作的配樂設計工作，曾為進念發行之唱片製作音樂，並為陳耀成之錄像作品《北征》作配樂。
A VERY GOOD CITY 兒童變態城市
by WOO Mathias 胡恩威
15:00 / 1998
Festivals: Videoart Channel World Tune 2005 (Kobe/ Tokyo, Japan) 
To tell a story about a city is just about telling its facts.
To tell a story about a city visually may just be telling its pace.
To tell a story about a city is just about telling the lines in it.
To tell a story about a story may just be telling lines and lines.
去講一個只談證據的城市故事。
去講一個視覺上只談其空間的城市故事。
去講一個只談個中的線的城市故事。
去講一個個可能只談線和線之間的城市故事。
About Mathias Woo
Mathias was born in Hong Kong. He studied architecture at the Architectural Association, London and the University of Hong Kong. He explores the spirit of architecture through theatre, text, video images and multi-media platforms. Woo joined Zuni Icosahedron in 1989, and has produced and directed prolific number of theatre works including 2001: a Hong Kong Odyssey; The Life and Times of Louis I. Kahn; Looking for Mies; Sigmund Freud in Search of Chinese Matter and Mind; 18 Springs; A Lover’s Discourse; East Wing West Wing Series and Four Grand Inventions. Woo writes regularly for newspapers and magazines on arts, architecture, media and politics. His latest published works include a book on Hong Kong architecture entitled HK Style. He has recently received the Award for Members’ Work Outside of Hong Kong (2004) from the Hong Kong Institute of Architects in recognition for his work in association with Arch Design Architects Ltd on the project of Shantou University Student Activity Centre 789 Phase I.
香港出生，於香港大學及倫敦建築學協會（Architectural Association）修讀建築設計，在舞台、文字、錄像和多媒體裏實踐和尋找建築的靈魂。 1989年加入進念．二十面體，擔任策劃、編導、多媒體設計及監製等工作，舞台導演作品包括《2001香港漫遊》、《The Life and Times of Louis I. Kahn》、《Looking for Mies》、《佛洛伊德尋找中國情與事》、《半生緣》、《戀人論語》、《四大發明》及《東宮西宮系列》。八十年代開始撰寫關於建築及文化政治評論文章，其評論文章經常刊於不同媒體，新作《香港風格》是第一本詳細記錄香港建築風貌的文本/圖本。此外，胡恩威聯同雅砌建築設計有限公司設計的汕頭大學學生活動中心《789》第一期，獲香港建築師學會頒發《2004年度會員香港境外作品獎》。
DRIFTING REVIEW
by Wong, Reine 王潔淳
1min 57” 2005
Festivals: Backup Festival 2005 (Weimar, Germany)
I had a mental stroke caused by an urge to use a tool. Walking in the City with the new tool enables oneself (both the cameraman and the drifter) a wonderful drifting experience. This follows the rule of drifting with the prestige Situationist aesthetics. I was introduced into a playful game. And in a playful spirit, a rule was set to produce a 360-degree vision, exhaustingly walking through the urban space. The raw images produced by the tool are in like a flattened donut shape. A new definition of "framing" dawned on me. How could I merge a safe-to-eat donut and a 360-degree-all-vision? The daunting walking experience tinkers with my feel for art more than the technology itself. I feel I have been reborn, where I have to learn how to walk and see again. The tool helps me to remap the urban space. I am reborn, while the city is remapped through my “new eyes”. About Reine Wong
Reine is fascinated in Spatial Study and New Media Arts, mounted from environmental design to the high-end technology arts. She is interested in both experimental and documentary film. She brings an abstract observation about life in “Slow Dance”, an experimental video which was screened in Asian Film Festival 2004 (Hong Kong) and Young Talent, New Cinema 2004 (Taipei). Her first documentary film “Dined and Wined to Satiety” about Tai Pa Dong, the vanishing temporary space was screened in Singapore International Documentary Film Festival 2004. Having set up “Take A St/Roll”, an exclusive exhibition of the 360-degree vision at Para/Site Art Space (Hong Kong) in 2005, she continues to make several donut videos from the abstract perspectives. She was a Bachelor graduate in Environmental Design in School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is currently a Master of Fine Art student, majored in Media Design and Technology in School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.
ON THE ROAD上路
by Ernest FUNG 馮偉
4:00 / 1996
It is a distinctive journey on the Hong Kong island tram. The director shows the authentic nature of new and old districts, the scenery of Hong Kong highways, and grasps the views of the forest (skyscraper) and (cultural) desert. 在香港島坐電車是一種獨特 程。 演表達了一種對 區的常理? 風景是香港的今公路， 森林 天大廈和 化的沙漠的景觀。
About Ernest Fung
Ernest Fung started independent video production in 1991 while he was a student in interior design. His work On the Road won the Gold award (MTV) in the Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards in 1996. Crossing over between commercial and independent film industries, his first feature film Dangerous Girls (1997) was programmed by ITV. In 1998, he finished his second film Silver City. His videos include Alice in Hong Kong have been exhibited in Japan, France and Germany. He also produces music videos for local pop singers and videos for concerts, such as “Tat Ming – Paris in Concert” and Anthony Wong’s “People Mountain People Sea.” He currently works as a film and video editor. 1991年修讀室內設計期間開始錄像創作。1996年作品《上路》曾獲香港獨立短片及錄像比賽音樂錄像組金獎。1997及99年獲香港藝術發展局資助拍攝長片《危險女郎》及超八米厘作品《銀色都市》。他曾為不同演出創作錄像，包括進念二十面體，《石頭再現記》和《山海經》，黃耀明《人山人海演唱會》，盧巧音《鏡花緣》及多個流行音樂的錄像作品等。
VERY FANTASTIC好鬼棧 by SO Man-yee Stella蘇敏怡
7:50 / 2002
Festivals: Island Art Video Festival 2005 (London, UK), Interfilm 2005 (Berlin, Germany) 
Putting together ghosts of goodness, surreal pre-war buildings, and traditional Chinese 9 square calligraphy paper pattern, you get Very Fantastic, an animation short about Hong Kong local culture and preservation local heritage, created by Stella So during her study at school of design, Polytechnic University of Hong Kong. Through representing the strange space of Hong Kong streets in a combination of Chinese 9 square calligraphy paper, Very Fantastic is a 2D animation expressing Hong Kong views in pre-war period, to show how fantastic of the Hong Kong building and how importance to reserve Hong Kong own culture to be our heritage. Devote Very Fantastic to my dearest dad, ma and grandma.
Very Fantastic transforms the traditional Chinese nine square calligraphy papers into a poetic story of where the “suite of the good ghosts” (Chinese name of the video) is situated. The video explores the possible of space, identity, and preservation of Hong Kong unique heritage.
《好鬼棧》是古怪空間的香港戰前客棧。中國傳統九公格紙表現香港橫街窄巷的奇異空間，並引領觀眾穿插於其中，表現出戰前舊樓是如何”very fantastic”，希望視「寸金尺土」的香港人會保存戰前舊樓和本土文化作香港人的遺產。
About Stella So
Graduated from School of Design, Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, Stella So worked as a graphic design in MILK magazine. She also produced an animated music video for canton pop-singer Anthony Wong's song featuring Sandy Lam. Stella’s unique animation and graphic style in Very Fantastic has won her many awards from local and international festivals including Gold Award in Independent Short Film and Video Festival 2003, Interfilm 2003 (Berlin), VideoEvento D'arte 2003 (Turin) and has been shown in various festivals screening programs local and aboard.
蘇敏怡就讀於香港理工大學設計學院期間，已製作一齣創意非凡的動畫短片《好鬼棧》。這是一齣有關香港本地文化及保留本地傳統的動畫，當中獨特的動畫及畫風令蘇敏怡贏得不少本地及國際獎項，包括2003年香港獨立短片及錄像比像金獎、柏林Interfilm 2003及杜林的VideoEvento D’arte2003。她的最新作品是黃耀明歌曲《下落不明》的動畫音樂錄影帶。
THE OTHER 他者
by LAM Wai-kit 林慧潔
1:51 / 2004
There are two protagonists in the video; they are separated into two different but similar spaces. These protagonists change their confined spaces into infinite ones while they dislocate both their physical spaces and identities.
錄像中兩位主角分別身處兩個空間，它們既相似又相異。兩位主角來來回回，身分角色不斷轉移，進而把兩個封閉的空間擴展至無限。
About LAM Wai-kit 林慧潔
Born in 1966 in Hong Kong. Lives and works in Hong Kong (China) and Ferrara (Italy). She graduated with her BA (Hons) in Fine Art at the Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK in 1996. In 2003, she graduated with her MFA at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her media included photography, video art, sound and mixed media. Her research topics included the construction of identity and the questions of existence. She concerns about the relationship between individuals and surrounding circumstances; and tries to reconstruct images and daily experiences in order to search for the notion and representation of identification. From 1996, she held several solo and group exhibitions in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Italy and Canada. Her works have been collected by the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, and also private collections in the UK, Italy, Canada, America, Australia and Hong Kong. From 2003, Lam is one of the main collaborators of the Italian AMAE Artgroup.
林氏於1966年香港出生，現生活及工作於香港（中國）及費拉拉（意大利）。1996年畢業於英國倫敦大學金匠學院，獲純藝術學士學位；2003年畢業於香港中文大學，獲純藝術碩士學位。作品為攝影、錄像、聲音及混合媒介。其研究課題包括身分建構和對存在的反思等問題。林專注於探討個體與周遭事物之間的微妙關係，嘗試從影像與經驗的再造中，尋找身分建構及其表達形式的觀念。自1996年開始，林氏曾分別於香港、上海、意大利及加拿大舉辦多次個人及聯合展覽。作品為香港文化博物館收藏，以及私人收藏於英國、意大利、加拿大、美國、澳洲及香港。自2003年開始，林氏為意大利藝術組合AMAE之主要合作伙伴。
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