Support by Hong Kong Arts Development Council
About Memorial Birdsongs
As a communal safe space for healing, Memorial Birdsongs creates a growing community choir of recorded birdsongs, each selected by visitors to memorialize a lost loved one. Using their phones or through this site, visitors select a birdsong and painting in memory and add the name to place their song in the garden.
They also receive a digital memento of the painting and song for social media sharing. Over the course of the exhibition, the garden fills with a choir of birdsongs from around the world, each representing someone lost but remembered.
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Opening Reception: 30 September 2023
Exhibition Period: 1 October – 14 October 2023 (Mon to Sun)
Venue: K11 Musea 8/F Nature Discovery Park
Website: https://www.memorialbirdsongs.com/
Creative Team
Scott Hessels (artistic director) and his design studio FugitiveColor create public artworks that use technology for richer social participation, with frameworks that include interactive collaboration and immersive spaces. Based in Hong Kong, US and Portugal, his projects span different media including moving image, data visualization, kinetic sculpture, and site-specific installation. His artworks have been presented internationally in exhibitions focusing on both technology and Fine Art. His recognitions include patents for developed technologies, references in books and periodicals on new media art, and coverage in popular cultural media.
Zoe Chan (co-producer) is a local innovator in New Media Art exhibition curation and development. Her projects have broken boundaries in both content and form, merging new technologies seamlessly with traditional performance and cultural art forms as well as siting the events in unexpected and meaningful venues and contexts. She is adept at the planning, execution, promotion, documentation and reporting of large-format works particularly in the Arts-Tech sector.
MetaObjects (technical development and fabrication) is a digital studio based in Hong Kong and London that aims to facilitate digital production with artists and cultural institutions. Working across a range of media, the studio seeks to encourage the sharing of knowledge of new digital tools and processes. Through close collaborations, MetaObjects builds a deep understanding of the possibilities of new technologies to help realize projects to a high standard of production.
Original Paintings by Li Changan
Research by Cyrus Leung
UI/UX Design by Marek Gollan
Logotype by Dom Chung
Promotion and Publicity – Amy Zang, Anson Kong, Claudia Sei Grace Whitfield, Karine Cheung, Mick Wong, Ryan Hong & Wendy Zhou
Technical and Installation – Anson Lam, David Yau, Kelvin Wong, Tommy Cheung & Vincent Cheung
Film and Video Documentation – Emma Paddock, Mau King-Ho, Michelle Tse, Samuel Kwan & Tony Cha