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.
How to narrate and reenact the bodies of migrant workers? 如何敘述與重演移工的身體？ / Emilie Choi
If documentaries are not just for viewing and getting new information, what else can it be? The two keywords "participatory" and "bodily engagement" speak of documentaries as the result of caring for our environment enough to strategies actions to research out. Reenactment is to become them (the migrant workers) in order to be able to narrate their experience.
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.
Notes on telling ghost stories as a folkloric pagan Christmas tradition 聖誕連冬至：講鬼故的風俗 / Linda Lai
On Winter Solstice this year (21 December 2025), FP writer Linda Lai researched on the tradition of telling ghost stories at Christmas in Europe, as an alternative introduction to Floating Project's mysterious film duscussion of a 1961 ghost-story film by Hector Rodriguez (23 Dec 2025).
On sharing shape-shifting AI real world narratives in a trade-show environment / Linda Lai
Revisiting a data-driven real world narrative by an RCA group of artist-researchers at SIGGRAPH ASIA 2025, I return to a long raised question in my reearch: how do we do justice to data-driven works of dense proceduralim to augment literacy value in a digital art show?
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[solo-show postscript01] Unfolding Micro Narratives 翻開「微敘事」/ Linda Lai
Linda Lai pins down a brief on her nomenclature of "micro narraqtive" as an open, performative, umbrella concept to develop her theories of sight-and-sound in relation to historiographic experiments.
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。
