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エリック·シウ

body hack

source: ericsiunet

Eric Siu is a Hong Kong new media artist who has a broad interest in device art, interactive art, kinetics, installation, video and animation. He is currently based in Tokyo and works as a creative director for Great Works Tokyo advertising agency. He worked as a resident artist at the Ishikawa Oku Laboratory of the University of Tokyo for 2 years after he had received his MFA from the Department of Design Media Arts at UCLA in 2010. Before that, he had completed a 12-month cultural exchange and research project in the United States funded by the Asian Cultural Council. Eric’s video art and multi-media works have been shown both locally and internationally including USA, Australia, Japan, Korea, Germany, and Poland, amongst others. He has exhibited in MOCA Taipei, ZKM, FILE, Transmediale, EMAF, WRO, SIGGRAPH Asia, ISEA, Microwave, and so fort. His work “Touchy” received the first prize from the WRO 2013, 15th International Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland. The project has been featured in various media such as Discovery Channel, Neural, Washington Post, Huffington Post, the Creators Project, etc. Since 2008, he serves as board member of Videotage, Hong Kong.
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source: vimeo

Body Hack is a full body interactive cinematic role hacking karaoke game. It allows players to hack iconic cinematic or televisual figures with their own body and their on-screen double. It triggers one’s desire of imitating known personae in a hilarious situation. Nevertheless, it raises
critical issues of our embodied experience with the mediated body.
As a cinematic game, Body Hack creates a space for audience to rethink the relationship between media and themselves. Through the full-body interactive system, audience is requested to perform under visual instructions. A projection will be presented with a paused movie and a character’s posture as a green contour. Player will see his/her on-screen double as TV static. The setup requests the player to fit in corresponding gestures, and the continuous synchronization of movement will progress the movie frame-by-frame as if the audience’s performance becomes the media’s time. The perfect combination of gestures serves as a key to dissolve the TV static, and to reveal the player’s appearance on the screen replacing the original character.
Under such setting, the game invites players to engage in an uncanny body rhythm and movement under the constraint of media. It provides a space for players to immerse in compelling cinematic environments, which blur the line between identity and representation, and the relationship between self, media and pop-culture. It attempts foreground the audiences’ awareness of the pervasive influences of media through the physical body.
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source: hkartalk

個人簡介

Eric Siu 為香港新媒體藝術家, 對設備藝術, 互動藝術, 動能, 裝置, 影像和動畫深感興趣。於2010年在加州大學洛杉磯分校設計媒體藝術系獲取藝術創作碩士（MFA）后, 以駐場藝術家的身份在東京大學的石川奧研究室進駐兩年。在此之前, 他在美國完成了由亞洲文化協會資助, 為其十二個月的文化交流及研究計劃。Eric的錄像及多媒體作品多次於本地及國外展出, 包括美國, 澳洲, 日本, 韓國, 德國及波蘭。他亦多次參展世界各地的媒體藝術節如FILE, Transmedia, EMAF, WRO, SIGRRAPH亞洲, ISEA, 微波等等。他的影像作品“Sliding Whites”曾於第十一屆波蘭媒體藝術雙年展WRO 05獲得榮譽大獎。自2008年起, 他成為香港非牟利藝術團體“錄影太奇”董事會成員之一。
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source: jpblouinartinfo

香港生まれの新たなメディアアーティスト、エリック・シウ。彼が開発したヒューマンカメラデバイスTouchyは、インタラクティブなカメラデバイスという独創的なアイデアから、今年ポーランドで開催されたWROメディア・アート・ビエンナーレで第一位を受賞するなど数々のアワードを受賞してきた。このTouchyがそもそも何なのかとシウに尋ねたところ、文字通りカメラに変身した状態の人間が、その間に体験する人と人との関係性、及びその相互作用に注目した現象学的な実験、とのことだ。今回、シドニーで開催されたインターナショナル・エレクトリック・アートシンポジウム２０１３（ISEA）のために現地を訪れていた彼に、BLOUIN ARTINFO Australiaが以下の突撃取材を試みた。