Panel Statement

Panel: LOCATION/SPACE: Responsive Environments

Scott Hessels introduced a special educational program of the Hong Kong based School of Creative Media. The Extreme Environments program explores how student artists, researchers and scientists working together can collect and interpret environmental data using new forms of creativity and visualization. The students do ‘on-site-research’ in special locations and have to develop creative ways of multimedia presentations of their research results. By this the physical atmosphere as ‘object’ of data collection becomes a topic, the media-driven interpretation and presentation of data furthermore creates specific spatial and atmospheric experiences which become part of the student’s artistic research process.

• Scott Hessels (School of Creative Media, Hong Kong) is an American filmmaker, sculptor and media artist based in Hong Kong who explores new relationships between the moving image and the environment. He has released artworks in several different media including film, video, web, music, broadcast, print, kinetic sculpture and performance. His films have shown in international film festivals and on broadcast television networks.

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