Category: Seriously Speaking 大聲發表
心裡無雲，都總可以推理治情，開拓感知。水中有明鏡，明鏡在心中。又或者，有些事情你總是咬著不放。You deserve to be heard. Features, expository and argumentative pieces, in-depth commentary and research-based writing… … Our mind takes forms — thought paths, a statue, a floating object, a system of tales, …
Mining the “Datafied World”: beyond the social dystopic-utopic split view through art (part 2)
A genealogy of data as sculpture: archaeological precedents in ancient civilization and artistic carrier of data in contemporary society... Gyung-jin Shin's attempt for sculptural carriers of data in her solo show, October 2025.
Mining the “Datafied World”: beyond the social dystopic-utopic split view through art (part 1)
from suspected loss of humanness to the moderation of knowledge asymmetry in the AI milieu: have we always existed as data? Linda Lai understands Gyung-jin Shin's solo show "Unmined..." as a proactive engagement with the materiality of data containers.
The Kid, Bruce Lee: immediate post-WII HK society & local cinema’s pedagogic burden 《細路祥，街童李小龍：戰後香港社會和港產影話戲的道德包袱》/ Linda Lai
The pedagogic burden of cinema on/about/on behalf of children has been a perennial concern, especially in contingent moments when control and discipline become critical 有關香港「細路祥」三篇連載。2020-2021期間，黎肖嫻潛進環繞苦難中的孩子的沈甸甸而充滿矛盾的論述。
Celluloid Hegemony: Episodes of Political Organization and Post-War Taiwan Cinema 1-4 《膠卷霸權：政治組織與戰後台灣電影的風景 1-4》/ Hector Rodriguez
This monograph explores Taiwan in the 1960s when cinema was a site of cultural expression as much as a contested apparatus for the manufacture of political mythologies highlighting a new home and modern society.
Ghosts: Atmospheres of Mystification, Henry James in focus 《亨利詹姆士的鬼（叙事）：神秘作為一種氛圍》/ Hector Rodriguez
Focusing on two seminal ghost stories by Henry James, Sir Edmund Orme and The Turn of the Screw, this monograph explores some aspects of horror fiction. It is the first of an ongoing series of analyses focusing on the nature of horror in art.
Tracing my steps into art pedagogy for media art and for the new media environment 媒體藝術的涵蓋和教育實踐：細步走來，迂迴曲折 / Linda Lai
In response to ZKM's invitation to speak at their Media Art 21 (MA21) Forum to take place in Hong Kong during the Art Basel period, Linda Lai outlines the reflection on her 25+ years of journeying in tiny steps towards a paradigm of (new) media art that answers HK's local needs as well as bears a future-oriented vision for media art education. 因應德國 Karlsruhe 的新媒藝術中心 ZKM 的邀請，我動筆勾劃了以下的大綱，值此追溯我在過去這二十多年來詢問有關（新）媒體藝術的種種而自行編出的細步，會在它們於巴塞爾藝術節樹起的香港論壇 MA2 分享。
Art as Articulation: Media, Meaning & Technology 藝術的發聲和接合：媒體、意義、科技之間
Art liberates us from technology by liberating technology from whatever we already think it is. 藝術將科技從我們已經認為的東西中解放出來，從而將我們從技術中解放出來。Published as FP-monographs
The Liminal Space of Godfrey Reggio's Qatsi Trilogy: the Unseen be Seen, and...?
Originally an invited contribution by HKIFF, the piece is Linda Lai's renewed understanding of Godfrey Reggio's "The Qatsi Trilogy." What is experimental about it? Can cinema stand alone as critique of a prevalent human condition? 受2024 香港國際電影節約稿，黎肖嫻重讀三十幾年前開始接觸的烈治奧的文明末世的沉思 --「生活三部曲」。時代變了，今天看這三部曲，為何？
《菊生畫中天地》A world of no boundaries on paper, two young artists curate to engage
A chance encounter... Media artist Valerie Mak befriended 70-year-old Chinese ink-and-brush painter TO Kuk-sang, and decided to stage his show in Shamshuipo to mark their exchange. 因緣際遇，麥容嘉和陳偉恩替一位習畫將近七十年的杜菊生在一個小型場地籌劃個人水墨畫展。麥容嘉對過程有一番體會。
I Dream That This List Would Be Rather Long... 推開後窗，我看見孜孜不倦的辛勞者在作業
Linda Lai, upon the School of Creative's 25th year, articulates her long-standing aspiration: rather than just producing artistic labor for the industry, we are nourishing enlightened future audience, including parents(-to-be), to keep art an open space.
