This compilation provides an overview of the prevailing concerns and aesthetics of early Hong Kang video art. Works featured in this selection include many members of Videotage, including Ellen Pau, Connie Choi, Wong Chi-fai and Ernest Fung.

本作品集結集了香港早期錄像藝術家普遍關心的題旨及美學素求。創作者包括錄影太奇成員如蔡敏儀，黃志輝，馮偉及鮑藹倫等。

Linda KONG participated in the Firebird film society. She is interested in video and media production.

CHOI Connie is founding member of Videotage. She is currently a full-time Financial Planner and amateur video artist.

CHAN Kam-lok, Mark was born in Hong Kong. He graduated from the Department of Cinema and Television, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist university. He worked as a cinematographer and sound recordist in many independent productions and multi-media performances. He represented Hong Kong in a youth exchange tour in Japan in 1995-6. His video works have been shown on television and over 30 local and overseas festivals. The work Happy Valley (Waiting at T zero) won the Grand Prize in Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards 1997.

WONG Chi-fai graduated from the Department of Fine Arts, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He works mainly in meida art, video, installation and theatre design. Since 1990, Wong has created stage designs for plays and performance by Hong Kong’s Sand & Bricks Theatre, as well as for theatre groups in Taiwan. He is also active in creating video art for theatre. Productions in which his work has appeared include the Altas’ Dance Art’s Memory Disorder and 2000.1.1 Unknown; Moment of Light theatre’s Deviant/Reasonant#2; Cheung Tat Ming’s Solo; and Bird, Birds by Makoto Matsushima.

Ellen Pau was born in Hong Kong and enrolled as a student of radiography at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1982. She is a radiographer by profession, but being a professional radiologist didnot fulfil her creative obsessions with video art and media art. In 1984 Pau made her first film Glove, asuper-8mm artwork, which was screened internationally. She has since worked as an MTV director, cinematographer, video artist, curator, educator and arts administrator. Pau began her international career in 1995 at the Kwangiu Biennale in Korea curated by Kim Hon-Yee and Nam-June Paik. She is the co-founder and artistic director for the media art organization Videotage and has served as a member and curator of the organizing committee for the Microwave International Media Art Festival, Hong Kong since 1996. Pau teaches part-time at The University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts in addition to be a full-time medical image technologist. Pau is an advisor to the HK Museum of Art, the HK Arts Development Council and a number of festivals. She has exhibited in exhibitions including One World Exposition by Videotage and the Input/Output Gallery Relocation exhibition.

Ellen YUEN studied Cinema & Television at the university and started her involvement with video production (alternative, documentary, fiction, animation and education kit), arts administration and arts education. As a full-time vegetarian and supporter for environmental protection and animal rights, she uses video as a medium for sharing, healing and responding to the society’s dark side. Her video works include: Corner Bumpers, BYOB, Circle Game, New Vision of Video Art (Hong Kong), Death of a Vegetarian, ID and Happy Family. They have been shown in local screenings (e.g. IFVA, HKIFF, Microwave Video Festival, Festival Now) and overseas festivals in Toronto, Paris, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan and Germany.

FUNG Wai, Ernest started independent video production when 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. He works in both the commercial and artistic field. His first feature film was Dangerous Girls (1997) and his second film Silver City (1998). His video works 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.

Jessie PAK is passionately interested in video art and stage performance. She participated in many performances produced by Edward Lam Dance Theatre.