Education

PhD candidate in the School of Creative Media

City University of Hong Kong

1/2022 - Present

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Apr–Jul 2025
Visiting PhD Student, Digital Design and Information Studies, Aarhus University (Denmark)
Research Group: Environmental Media and Aesthetics, Digital Aesthetics Research Centre (DARC)

(Host: Prof. Jussi Parikka)

 

Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Academy of Visual Arts (theory-based)

Baptist University of Hong Kong

1/2018 - 7/2021

 

Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Studies

Lingnan University

9/2010 - 5/2014

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Publication

 

• (Peer-reviewed research paper) “Cinephile Culture as Infrastructure: Relations and Networks in Hong Kong 1960s–1980s,” Film Quarterly, special issue: Hong Kong Cinephilia Reimagined, ed. Jean Ma, Oakland: University of California Press, (Mar 2025). (Q1)

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• (Peer-reviewed research paper) “Investigating Hong Kong Alternative Cinema: The Formation of Cinephilias in the late 1960s”, Modernism/modernity Print Plus, special issue: Global South Cinephilias, ed. Rielle Navitski, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, (May 2024).

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• (Peer-reviewed book chapter) “A Critical Study of The 70’s Biweekly and Its Political Cinematic Practices”, in The 70’s Biweekly: Social Activism and Alternative Cultural Production in 1970s Hong Kong, ed. Pan Lu, published by HKU Press (Jul 2023).​​

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Grant & Fellowship

• Junior Research Fellow, Digital Narratives Studio, CUHK (2024–2025)

• Cultural Exchange Grant, Hong Kong Arts Development Council (2024)

• Taiwan National Culture and Arts Foundation, International Collaboration Grant (2024)

• Curatorial Program for Research 2023: (Re)Presentation in the Nordics — Funded Fellowship (2023)

• Research Tuition Scholarship (City University of Hong Kong) (2022–present)

• Postgraduate Scholarship (Hong Kong University Grants Committee) (2022-2026)

• Research Funding, Hong Kong Arts Development Council (Venice Biennale 2019)

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Professional Roles

External Assessor, Hong Kong Arts Development Council
(Streams: Film and Media Arts, Art Criticism) | Aug 2020–Present

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Board Member, Videotage | Sep 2020–Present
Board Member, Unlock Dancing Plaza | Dec 2023–Present

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Reporter, Ming Pao Weekly, Art and Culture Section | Jul 2015–Nov 2017
Assistant Editor, City Magazine | Dec 2013–Jul 2015

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Professional Training

• Possible AIs: Institute for Speculative Technologies, CREA (Oct–Nov 2025)

• AI & Identity – Human-AI Collaboration: Imaginaries, Interventions, Interfaces, DARC, Aarhus University (May 2025)

• Workshops for Emerging Arts Professionals: New Flows, Para Site (Sep 2024)

• Curatorship Incubation Programme, HART Haus (May–Aug 2021)

• DOX Academy: Critics’ and Curators’ Class, Copenhagen International Documentary Festival (CPH:DOX) (Mar 2019)

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Editorial Work​

• Co-editor (with Dr. Kristof Van den Troost), Journal of Chinese Cinema (special issue:“Post-2019 Hong Kong Cinema: Paradox and Polarization,” forthcoming 2026)

• Co-editor, Shifting Perspectives: An Anthology on Hong Kong Media Arts (working title) (Videotage, forthcoming 2026)

• Co-editor, Still Jumping: Mediated Performance and the Moving Image Across Asia and the Global Stage 2004–2024 (Typesetter Publishing, 2025)

• Deputy Editor, Cinema After Cinema, (art.ware, 2024) (Funded by Hong Kong Arts Development Council)

• Associate Editor, Our Manifestos 2: Videography, Documentary Impulses, (Floating Projects, 2021) (Funded by Hong Kong Arts Development Council)

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Teaching Experience

 

Guest Lecturer

• FILM3077 The Art of Documentary Film, Hong Kong Baptist University (Academy of Film)
  — Apr 2025

• SM6346 Social Media, Aesthetics and Curation, City University of Hong Kong (School of Creative Media) — Mar 2025

• CUS3411 Media Creativity, Lingnan University (Cultural Studies) — Nov 2022

 

Teaching Assistant, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong

• SM4708 Media Archaeology

• SM2702 Interdisciplinary Practices in Art, Science and the Humanities

• SM3742 Micro-Narratives

 

Public Workshops

• Interdisciplinary Practices in Research-based Art, Instructor — Four Dimension Spatial, Macao (Feb 2024)

• Art Criticism Workshop, Instructor — 1a Space, Hong Kong (Nov 2019 – Feb 2020)​​

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Academic Conference

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23-25/7/2025 [Presenter] “Shipwreck in Hong Kong: Deep Sea Archaeology & Sociotechnical Imaginaries of the Sunk Jumbo”, in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference 2025, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand.

 

19-21/5/2025 [Presenter] “Visualizing the Logistics of Energy: a case study of blast furnaces and transnational infrastructural redistribution in late Cold War and Socialist China”, in Ethnographies of Energy workshop, organized by the Asian Dynamics Initiative at University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

 

8-9/5/2025 [Presenter] “Mediating Climate and Mobility through Chinese Digital Ecological Art”, in Re-imagining Climate (Im)mobilities in the Panicocene, organized by Durham University, UK.

 

3-6/4/2025 [Presenter] “Cinephile Culture and Alternative Mediascape in Cold War and Colonial Hong Kong: A Case Study of Phoenix Cine Club”, in the panel of Cinephilia in East Asia: History, Industry, and State Power, organized by the annual conference of the Society For Cinema and Media Studies 2025, Chicago, US.

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16/3/2024 [Presenter] “Video art or video activism: A Comparative Study of Participatory Media and Collective Formation in Hong Kong and Taiwan in the 1980s”, in the panel of Revolutionizing The Screens: Emerging Media and Everyday Activism in Chinese Societies across the Pacific, organized by the annual conference of the Society For Cinema and Media Studies 2024, Boston, US.

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17/6/2023 [Chair & Presenter] “Remediating actuality and journalistic events: a media-turn of Post-2019 Hong Kong documentary”, in the panel of Post-2019 Hong Kong Cinema: Paradox and Polarization, Society for Hong Kong Studies Annual Conference 2023.

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19/5/2023 [Invited presenter] “Platform as resilience: negotiating against film censorship through online streaming”, Academic Workshop: Censorship and Creativity in Hong Kong Cinema, organized by The Center for Chinese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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13/8/2022 [Presenter] “Drifting from present to the past: reconfiguring an alternative discourse of Hong Kong history in the recent political documentary”, in the panel of Historical Reinvention and Image Politics in Hong Kong Documentary, XXVIII Visible Evidence 2022, held at University of Gdańsk, Poland.

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31/5/2022 [Presenter] “What makes the dispersed narratives in Global South: An Ethnographic Study of Alternative Archives in Hong Kong”, Eye International Conference 2022, organized by Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam.

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24/3/2022 [Presenter] “A 1970s Film Collective: Phoenix and the Experimental Cinema of Hong Kong”, in the panel of Crime, Eros, and Intellect: The 1970s and the Making of Modern Hong Kong in Film, annual conference of Association for Asian Studies 2022.

 

18/2/2022 [Presenter] “Green Team and Video Power: a comparative study of independent video activism and collective formation in Hong Kong and Taiwan”, Multiple Decolonialities and the Making of Asian Commons, organized by the School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological.

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12/7/2021 [Presenter] “Youth Politics after 1967: An Examination of the Political Re-enactment in Beggar (1970)” in the panel of Hong Kong during a Previous Age of Global Crisis: Politics and Society in Post-1967 Cinema, Society for Hong Kong Studies Annual Conference 2021, organized by Hong Kong Studies Association.

 

12/12/2020 [Presenter] “From amateur to experimental: a study of Ho Fan’s experimental moving image art”, Hong Kong Studies Symposium on Hong Kong and Visual Arts, organized by Hong Kong Studies Association.

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Selected Curatorial and Creative Projects

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• Bug on Fire by Albert Garcia (Multi-Media Performance and Exhibition) — Researcher
  2024–present
  Selected for PACT Zollverein (Germany) Residencies 2024 & 2025 (all-inclusive support)

• What Are the Remnants of the Earth? Elemental Senses and the Speculative Archive, Guest Curator, Bangkok CityCity Gallery, Thailand (May–Jun 2025)

• Contact Zoning, Co-curator, Fotoaura Institute of Photography, Taiwan (Nov–Dec 2024)
  — Funded by Arts Development Council, Hong Kong & National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan

• Expanded Space Series (Performative Doc 2021; Body Dis-ordered 2022), Co-curator, Jumping Frames – Hong Kong International Movement-image Festival (organized by City Contemporary Dance Company)

• Remembering a Performance (Talk and Workshop), Co-ordinator, Asia Art Archive & Lingnan University (Nov 2018)

• The Hong Kong Docuthon: Documenting Hong Kong Culture Masterclass with Ackbar Abbas, Researcher & Curator, Lingnan University (Nov 2017)

• Hong Kong Retrospective Documentary Film Festival: From 80s to 1997, Co-curator, Hong Kong Actual Images Association, (May 2017) — Funded by Hong Kong Arts Development Council

 

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