Speakers: Keith Lam, Ng Tsz-Kwan, Samuel Yip (Media Artists)
Moderator: Zoie Yung (Curator, Art Central 2026)
Conducted in Cantonese
In its annual strategic report titled ‘Future Art Ecosystems 5: Art x Creative R&D’, London’s Serpentine Galleries identifies creative research development as an emerging and increasingly autonomous field of innovation. As technological paradigms shift, it argues that the art ecosystem must move beyond traditional exhibition modes toward the development of core infrastructures—repositioning artists as co-creators of technological R&D rather than passive end users. The report further proposes that art institutions should operate as “social experimental platforms”, transforming technological risks into public value through cross-sector collaboration. Such a reorientation would reshape funding models and innovation metrics, ensuring that the cultural sector maintains agency amid the rapid expansion of AI and other frontier technologies.
This talk brings together three practitioners who bridge creative practice and industry leadership: Keith Lam, Samuel Yip, and Ng Tsz-kwan. As multimedia artists, they will share their experiences pioneering frontier artistic practices in Hong Kong. The discussion will explore their motivations for establishing collaborative studio models and the infrastructural conditions required to sustain new‑media arts practice amid increasing government support for Art Tech development.
Image: Keith Lam (left); Ng Tsz-Kwan (centre); Samuel Yip (right). Courtesy of the artists.
