The Leisure and Cultural Services Department will present a multimedia arts lecture series entitled "Sound‧Image‧Performance: A Trilogy of Multimedia Creation for the Stage" in May, featuring three local multimedia artists as speakers. Drawing on their expertise in visual design, theatrical storytelling and sound art, they will examine how multimedia art, as a creative language in a contemporary stage environment, can reimagine sensory experiences and narrative forms to unleash creative possibilities. Through presentations of their own works, creative case studies, as well as live demonstrations and interactions, the speakers will share their ideas, production processes and observations on emerging trends of multimedia creation for the stage.
 
     Details of each lecture are as follows:
 
Lecture 1: Constructing Space: The Dance Between Body and Image
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Date: May 6 (Wednesday)
Speakers: Oliver Shing (digital image designer, visual director, video director)
Content: Taking stage multimedia design as the starting point, this lecture will explore how images can actually generate space, and even become part of the choreography itself. It will also examine how relationships between movement, light and rhythm are established, and how the interaction between images and performers can be adjusted so that body and images are complementary. Through brief demonstrations and interactive segments, participants will gain insight into what makes stage images unique from the perspective of the viewer.
 
     Shing is the founder of the multimedia studio, Daaimung, and has contributed to visual and video designs for pop concerts and museums. He has curated and created architectural projection mappings for buildings such as the East Kowloon Cultural Centre, The Mills and Tai Kwun. Over the years, he has collaborated with various local performing arts groups. He is a member of the Heteroglossia Theatre.
 
Lecture 2: Technology in Theatre: Multimedia Storytelling and Emerging Trends
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Date: May 13 (Wednesday)
Speaker: Dan Fong (digital visual artist, video designer) 
Content: Drawing on the speaker's personal creative and production experience, this lecture will engage participants in the conceptualisation and methodology behind multimedia design in theatre. It will explore how multimedia technology can serve storytelling, shape atmosphere and rhythm, drive character and emotional development, and redefine the audience's viewpoint and level of engagement. This lecture will also discuss the potential applications and future trends of AI in theatre.
 
     Fong is currently a lecturer at the School of Theatre and Entertainment Arts at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. With extensive experience in visual and video design for theatre productions, concerts and exhibitions, he has collaborated with various local performing arts groups. In recent years, he has also served as a live digital visual designer for concerts featuring singers and bands.
 
Lecture 3: Sound as Instrument: The Evolution of Sound Art and Multimedia Creation
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Date: May 20 (Wednesday)
Speaker: Alain Chiu (composer, sound artist)
Content: Using musical composition as a starting point, this lecture will explore how musicians and composers transform sound into an artistic form. It will also review how technology has reshaped the methods of sound production over time, alongside developments in AI and other emerging tools, to examine how these advances open up possibilities of sound in multimedia creation such as installations, images and performances, while rethinking the value of human creativity, listening and live experience.
 
     Chiu's creative practice spans traditional composition, sound installations, experimental music theatre, virtual reality and video installations. He has received commissions from numerous organisations, and his works have been performed at the Hong Kong Arts Festival, the Italy tour of Jumping Frames and the Cannes Film Festival, amongst others. He is the founder of the experimental performance collective Trilateral Lab, and currently teaches at the HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity.

     All lectures will be conducted in Cantonese and will start at 7.30pm at AC2, Level 4, Administration Building, Hong Kong Cultural Centre. Each lecture will run for about two hours. Tickets priced at $80 (for each lecture, with free seating) are now available at URBTIX (www.urbtix.hk). For telephone bookings, please call 3166 1288. Discounts will be available for purchasing standard tickets of different lectures under this series. For programme enquiries and concessionary schemes, please call 2268 7323 or visit www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/CulturalService/Programme/en/multi_arts/programs_1966.html.

Ends/Thursday, April 2, 2026
Issued at HKT 11:15

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