Zoom event: 11th January, 0830 EST / 1430 CET / 2130 HKT RSVP required: https://bit.ly/3kC2RPK
MIT-based artist Kwan Q Li and architect Joel Cunningham will share their project No humans in the City, but Weeds - a piece of artistic research that examines an emerging trend of data-centre urbanism. This collaborative project commenced in 2019 and intends to stimulate collective imagination around the agency and performativity of human communities within increasingly post-human urban environments. The project’s short film was exhibited at the 2021 Venice Biennale International Architecture (Hong Kong Pavilion), while a related academic paper is scheduled to be published by AI & Society Journal (2022). This project was funded by the Hong Kong Design Trust and the Council for the Arts at MIT. Following the duo presentation, Director of Smart City Research and Industry Collaboration at the MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node, Sunnie Lau, curator and writer Vere van Gool, and multidisciplinary designer Sam Ghantous will respond to the presentation. The conversation will focus on different means of performing in the margins, with perspectives from urban design, writing, curating, and web design. An online archive of the project can be found at https://nohumans.city - a website created in collaboration with design studio Foreign Objects.
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