For immediate release 19 March 1997
New Art On-Line at HKUST
Art in cyberspace goes on-line at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, when the exhibition, WebWise<>ArtsSites, opens on 21 March.Multimedia arts from Germany and Britain created on CD-ROM, disk and the Internet will be set up on a bank of computers for visitors to explore and, in some cases, add their own artworks.
WebWise<>ArtSites is co-presented by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the Goethe-Institut Hong Kong, the British Council and Transmedia/VideoFest, Berlin.
The exhibition will be opened by Prof Chia-Wei Woo, President of HKUST, Dr Uwe Nitschke, Director of the Goethe-Institut Hong Kong, and Mr Tom Buchanan, Director of the British Council in Hong Kong.
Event: Opening of WebWise<>ArtSites, Multimedia Arts from Germany and Britain
Date: Friday, 21 March 1997 Time: 6 pm
Venue: Exposition Hall, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon
The exhibition is open to the public from 22 March - 11 April 1997, 1-5 pm (Mon-Fri), 10 am - 6 pm (Sat, Sun and public holidays). Exhibition curator Knut Gerwers will give a public talk on
WebWise<>ArtSites on Saturday, 22 March 1997, at 2:30 pm in the exhibition venue.
Note to Editors:
You are invited to be represented. For further information, please call 2358 6306 or e-mail [email protected].
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