Hung Keung

Hung Keung

Strengths: New Media, Film Industry, Creative and Arts Industry

Hung Keung was born in Yunnan (The capital of the province is Kunming), China in 1970; and moved to Hong Kong with his family when he was three. He graduated from the Swire School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University; the Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design with an MA (Film & Video), UK. He was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Art and Media (ZKM), Germany (2001-02). Currently, he is a PhD candidate at The Planetary Collegium, the University of the Arts in Zurich, Switzerland and is an Assistant Professor of School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Since 1995, Hung Keung has been involved in the creative and research aspects of film, video and new media art internationally. He was awarded ‘Best Short Ambient Video Award’ at BBC British Film Festival; a ‘Best of EMAF’ at European Media Art Festival Germany; ‘Winner of the Prize of Excellence’ at Hong Kong Arts Biennial; ‘Special Mention Interactive CDROM Award’ at e-phos, The 3rd International Festival of Film & New Media on Art in Athens, Greece and ‘Honorable Mention (new media)’ at the 7th International Festival of New Film. He was an award receiver for Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2010: Award for Best Artist (Media Arts) (2010); ‘Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Awards: Achievement Awards’ (2009) and Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2007: ‘Award for Outstanding Young Artist (Film and Media Arts)’ (2007). In recognition of his international achievements on new media art, Hung Keung was awarded the highly prestigious President’s Awards: Outstanding Performance/Achievement (Research and Scholarly Activities) (2002); (DAAD) Deutscher Akademicscher Austausch Dienst Scholarship, Germany (2002) and (ACC) Asian Cultural Council Fellowship, US (2005).