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The University of Hong Kong
Bonham Road
“Hong Kong and The University of Hong Kong are my intellectual birthplace”
Key words of Dr Sun’s speech delivered in 1923 at The University of Hong Kong are captured in the rotating cube of the artwork. (working text)
Founded in 1911, The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is the territory’s oldest institute of higher learning. Dr Sun Yat-sen studied from 1887 to 1892 at the College of Medicine for Chinese, Hongkong, which was incorporated into the HKU in 1912 as the Faculty of Medicine. Dr Sun visited the HKU on 20 February 1923 and gave a public speech in the Great Hall (now Loke Yew Hall), in which he declared that “Hong Kong and The University of Hong Kong are my intellectual birthplace”.
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Hong Kong had been regarded as the cradle of Dr Sun Yat-sen’s revolution. The artwork is based on his speech delivered in The University of Hong Kong in 1923, extracting the concept from his speech and creating an interactive installation with texts and images to arouse the public reflection on Dr Sun’s vision of society, revolution and future.
Wong Chiu Tat, Justin
Justin Wong, born in 1974, is a comic writer and media artist. After receiving his BA(Fine Arts) and MA(Interactive Digital Media) in Hong Kong and London respectively, he started to develop works that aims to explore the possibility of traditional art form in the digital era. His works includes comics, illustration, graphic design, animation and interactive installation. Apart from his major interest in political and social issues shown in his political comic column Gei Gei Gaak Gaak published in Ming Pao Daily, digital modern life is another topic commonly found in his other works. He is currently the artistic director of a new media art group, Writing Machine and lecturer in the Academy of Visual Arts in Hong Kong Baptist University.