Microwave

Last night was the opening of the Microwave International Media Arts Festival. Though I've been sleepy and unproductive of late, I managed to pull myself together to attend it, and hang out afterwards with some old and new friends. In the pictures: the exhibition space at HK City Hall; Lily (helping fix a technical problem in the exhibit by MIT's Computing Culture Group); the beautiful interactive lampposts by Thai artist Bundith Phunsombatlert (who spoke at the later lecture); taking the Star Ferry (a rare treat) across Victoria Harbour to the HK Space Museum in Tsim Sha Tsui; Masaki Fujihata presenting work at the artists' talk; dinner and drinks at Watami (an izakaya -style Japanese restaurant) with Kirque, Yvonne, Lily, Rachel, Chris, Jeremy and Kasey (artists visiting for the exhibition); and finally the pre-Halloween madness of Lan Kwai Fong.