We are always just a few taps away from our online audiences. In the age of rapid sharing of ones' curated social lives on the internet, multi-identities of oneself are inevitably and sometimes passively created as we consider the various parties we face. Myriad social media usage informs interpretations that are variegated yet singular; our presentation of self is flattened and limited by the data we choose to share with the public. We think we are reinventing our online identities when we are caving into serving the ideals engineered by Mark Zuckerberg and other tech moguls. With the latest identification system in NFT blockchain technology, online security is not limited to digital assets but also the uniqueness of oneself. This social-performativity enables us to rethink our identity shaped by society, and consistently (re)constructs the reality of oneself and our (new) reality.

In this panel, we have invited Hong Kong artist Wong Ka Ying and Taiwan-based artist Yu Cheng-ta to explore how artists recreate themselves as a social phenomenon and performance. Both avid life observers who critically reflect on the omnipresent dialogue between self and others through playful approaches in their works, in her latest project, Yesterday Girl, Wong plugged her selfies into an A.I./generative adversarial network (GAN) program to generate a series of images that looks like her but isn't her, to examine one's identity and beauty standards in today's world. While Yu embraces the multi-(and sometimes fictional)-identities of his creation through a series of performances that examines the cultural and sociopolitical phenomenon under the influence of Western mass media trends.

Join us on Thursday, 17th Feb, 2022 at 8 - 9 pm HKT.

Moderator:

Dr. Issac Leung (Hong Kong)

Speakers:

Wong Ka Ying (Hong Kong) https://www.wongkaying.com/

Yu Cheng-ta aka. FAMEME (Taiwan) https://www.yuchengta.com/

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**Q&A will be conducted after the discussion

**This panel was prepared or accomplished by the participants in their personal capacity and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of screensguru.

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ART IS RIGHTS. When rights of artwork are defined, artists can take control of their careers. When the provenance of artworks is authenticated, ownership is secured for the collectors. With NFT technologies, screensguru aims to bring authenticated art to the connoisseur.

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