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Jamsen Law

Born and grew up in Hong Kong, Jamsen Law's artworks have been exhibited, presented and screened in festivals in Europe, Asia Pacific, North and South America, such as Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival, Transmediale Berlin and Ogaki Biennale. His solo screenings were presented in Toronto, Tokyo, Busan and Hong Kong, and theatrical, video and curatorial projects were supported by Hong Kong Arts Development Council for numerous times.

LAW started curating screenings for Microwave International Media Arts Festival back in 2002 and subsequently curated educational artist-in-residence programmes and talks. Start Making Senses, a talk series on different sensory experience in new media technology, presented by Leisure and Cultural Services Department in 2010, Intermedia Collaboration series: Asian New Media Lab, supported by Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 2010, and Hongkong-Asia Exchange Project, supported by Asia Cultural Council in 2009, illustrates Law’s commitment to East/Southeast Asian arts and interests in international exchange and media exploration.

In 2018, Law set up nProjekt, a new art initiative, to gather people and resources for exploring new forms of arts engagement, artistic research and artist enrichment. By the end of 2022, there have been 4 series, consisting of 15 exhibitions, produced in Hong Kong and 7 other overseas countries in Asia, Europe and South America.

Education

Master of Media Creation, Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences, Japan

Master of Arts, University of Hong Kong

Full-year Exchange Programme, University of California at Davis, USA

Bachelor of Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Curated Programme

Inter•Phase, a location-specific art project selected by Örö Island Residency Programme, collaborated with Lee Suet Ying and Roy Wong, hosted by Örön Residenssikeskus ry (Finland), supported by Hong Kong Arts Development Council, 2022

Seeds of Remembrance, a process-driven creative project, collaborated with LEE Suet Ying, hosted by Residencia Corazón (Argentina), supported by Hong Kong Arts Development Council, 2022

Non-Solo, an exhibition series featured 4 Hong Kong artists - Lee Suet Ying, Elaine Wong, Tsang Chui Mei and Jamsen Law, in association with with John Aiken, Yarli Allsion, Kurt Chan, Ho Siu Kee, Hung Keung, Ivy Ma, Anson Mak, Linda Lai, Jaffa Lam, Verdy Leung, Annie Wan and Leo Wong, supported by Hong Kong Arts Development Council, 2021

Under•Line, a collaborative visual arts project, exhibited in Hong Kong, The Hagen, Tokyo, Rotterdam, Sydney, Trondheim, Barcelona and Lisbon, supported by Hong Kong Arts Development Council and Arts Development Fund (Home Affairs Bureau), 2018 - 2020 & 2022

Art after Graduation, a career talk series, Hong Kong Design Institute, 2017 - 2018

Start Making Senses, a talk series on different sensory experience in new media technology dimension, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, presented by Leisure and Cultural Services Department, HK, 2010

Intermedia Collaboration series: Asian New Media Lab, supported by Hong Kong Arts Development Council, 2010

Hongkong-Asia Exchange Project, supported by Asia Cultural Council, 2009

New Media Arts Exhibition Project – Intermedia Experiment at HKAS, commissioned by Hong Kong Arts Development Council, 2008 - 2009

New Media Basics Series: Creating from Electronics, supported by Hong Kong Arts Development Council, 2008 - 2009

Being Projected, six screening programmes for Microwave International Media Art Festival 2002, Temporal Being, presented by Leisure and Culture Services Department, organised by Microwave Company Ltd and Videotage, 2002

Solo Screening / Exhibition

Sand Settling on Sand is a Non-Solo of Jamsen Law in association with Linda Lai, Verdy Leung, Anson Mak, and Annie Wan, The Muse, Hotel Stage, 2021

No Details, Not Whole, Lumenvisum, JCCAC, Hong Kong, 2016

Experimental Drawings and Prints, Front/Side Gallery, JCCAC, Hong Kong, 2012

The Lab: H.K Video/Film Artists Series 3, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, 2005

Asian Video Art Conference, Tokyo Video Art Center, Tokyo, Japan, 2003

Asian Directors of the New Century, The 30th Seoul Independent Film Festival, Seoul, Korea, 2003

Video Ground Zero, V-tape, Toronto, Canada, 2002

Installation Exhibition, Sir Run Run Shaw Hall, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995

Taught Institutes

Full Time

Hong Kong Design Institute, 2016 - 2020

Hong Kong Art School, 2006 - 2010

The City University of Hong Kong, 2000 - 2004

Part Time

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2011 - 2015, 2021

Birmingham City University, 2015 - 2020

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007 - 2015

The Baptist University of Hong Kong, 2013 - 2014

The Hong Kong Institute of Education, 2014

The City University of Hong Kong, 2010 - 2014

RMIT University, 2007 - 2010

School of Professional Education and Executive Development PolyU, 2006 - 2010

Community Services (Selected)

Member of Jury Broad of 26th Independent Film and Video Awards (Open Category), presented by Leisure and Culture Services Department, organised by Hong Kong Art Centre, 2020

Assessment panel member of the Arts Awards 2012 – 2015, 2017 & 2020 – Media Arts Category, organised by Hong Kong Arts Development Council, 2012 – 2015, 2017 & 2020

Film & Media Arts Advisor, Hong Kong Arts Development Council, 2013 - 16

Jury Panelist of Bloomberg Digital Arts Initiative 2013, organised exhibitions by Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation, 2013

Member of Jury Broad of 14th -16th Independent Film and Video Awards (Interactive Media Category), presented by Leisure and Culture Services Department, organised by Hong Kong Art Centre, 2008 - 2011

Adjudicator of Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition, presented by Leisure and Culture Services Department and Hong Kong Arts Development Council, organised by the Hong Kong Museum of Art, 2004

Chairperson of Microwave Company Ltd, organiser of Microwave International Media Art Festival, 2003 - 2007

Member of Jury Broad of 7th Independent Film and Video Awards (Open Category), presented by Leisure and Culture Services Department, organised by Hong Kong Art Centre, 2001

Chairperson of Videotage – Media Artist Collective, 2000 – 2003

Scholarship / Grant / Award

Grant for Inter•Phase, Hong Kong Arts Development Council, HK, 2022

Grant for Seeds of Remembrance, Hong Kong Arts Development Council, HK, 2022

Grant for Artistic Research in Finland, Hong Kong Arts Development Council, HK, 2021

Grants for Under•Line (8 editions), a collaborative exploratory arts project, exhibited in Hong Kong, The Hagen, Rotterdam, Sydney, Trondheim, Barcelona and Lisbon, Hong Kong Arts Development Council and Arts Development Fund (Home Affairs Bureau), 2018 - 2022

Artist-in-Residence Award (WBK Vrije Academie, Den Haag, Netherlands), received from 16º Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival, 2009

Grant for Field of Conciseness (Video Project), Hong Kong Arts Development Council, HK, 2005

Gifu Prefecture International Academy of Media Arts and Science Special Award (Prefecture award), Japan, 2004

Grant for Matching Four with Twelve (Video Project), Hong Kong Arts Development Council, HK, 1999

Award for Excellence (Competition Section), Image Forum 1999, Japan, 1999

Gold Award-MTV, HK Independent Film and Video Awards 1997, 1997

University of California Exchange Program Scholarship, USA, 1995

Selected Group Screening / Exhibition

2022 Residencia Corazón, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2022 Art Basel HK, Hong Kong

2022 LKV, Trondheim, Norway

2020 107, Sydney, Australia

2019 WolArt, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

2019 Dali International Photography Festival, Dali, China

2019 House of Ebata, Tokyo, Japan

2019 Quartair, The Hagen, the Netherlands

2018 FooTak Gallery, Hong Kong

2018 Lumenvisum, JCCAC, Hong Kong

2017 Orientations: Boundaries Surveyed, 14th Experimental Film & Video Festival in Seoul, S. Korea

2017 Reload_Hong Kong, Inter-Act Arts, Hong Kong

2016 3rd Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, Shenzhen

2016 Echofluxx 16 International Film Festival, Prague, Czech Republic

2016 No References: A Revisit of Hong Kong Video and Media Art from 1985, Videotage, Hong Kong

2015 Papay Gyro Nights 2015, Videotage, Hong Kong.

2011 Museum of Contemporary Art Westlake

2009 9th Seoul International MediaArt Festival

2008 7º Festival Internacional de la Imagen, Colombia

2008 Museu de Arte da Pampulha - Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

2007 Laboratorio de Arte Alameda, Mexico City, Mexico

2007 Dépendance-indépendance, Espace Piano Nobile, Geneva, Swiss

2007 16º Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival, San Paolo, Brazil

2006 Ogaki Biennale 2006, Gifu, Japan

2006 IAMAS2006 - The Wanderer' Engawa in the era of Technocodes, Ogaki, Japan

2006 Festival Internacional de Video Arte de Valencia, Spain

2006 Borderline Moving Images 2007, Beijing Film Academy, China

2005 The 5th New Media Festival in Seoul, Korea

2005 15º Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival, San Paolo, Brazil

2005 prog:ME, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2004 Shanghai Biennale 2004, Shanghai, China

2004 Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung, Indonesia

2004 BizArt, Shanghai, China

2004 SEFOMA 2004, Seoul, Korea

2003 Asian Video Art Conference, Tokyo, Japan

2003 Asian Directors of the New Century, The 30th Seoul Independent Film Festival Seoul, Korea

2003 LA ISLE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2003 14º Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival, San Paolo, Brazil

2003 Busan Asian International Film Festival, Busan, Korea

2003 25hrs – The Video Art Foundation, Barcelona, Spain

2003 Transmediale.03, Berlin, Germany

Residency / Invited Cultural Exchange

2022 Örö Island Residency Programme, Finland, invited by Örön Residenssikeskus ry

2022 Residencia Corazón, Argentina, invited by Residencia Corazón

2022 ROOT, interdisciplinary engaged residency, Netherlands, supported by Landpark Assisië

2018 Research Residency, Bergen, Norway, invited by Hordaland Kunstsenter

2018 Nomads in Residence, Vleuten, Netherlands, organised by Cultuur19

2017 Artist seminar, Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University, Japan

2013 Asia-Lux, Filmabend Analog, Seoul, South Korea, organised by Goethe-Institut

2009 Artist-in-Residence in WBK Vrije Academie, Den Haag, Netherlands

2006 Ogaki Biennale 2006, Japan, invited by Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences

2003 Asian Video Art Conference, Tokyo, Japan invited by Videoart Center Tokyo

2003 14º Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival, San Paolo, Brazil, invited by Associação Cultural Videobrasil

2002 Gwangju Biennale 2002, Korea, one of the representatives of Videotage

2002 Video Ground Zero, Toronto, Canada, invited by V-Tape

2001 5to Festival Internacional de Video/Arte/Electrónica, Lima, Peru, invited by Alta Tecnología Andina

1997 Artist-in-residence in ARTSPACE, Sydney, Australia

1995 CASTLE OF IMAGINATION, Bytòw, Poland