Hong Kong Memories: Miniatures & Photographs of Old Hong Kong Streetscapes 香港回憶：香港舊街景縮影及照片
- When:
- Saturday, December 10, 2022 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm
- Where:
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Talk on campus & Zoom webinar
UChicago Yuen Campus in Hong Kong
168 Victoria Road, Mount Davis
Hong Kong - Description:
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Exhibition:
The University of Chicago Hong Kong and two unique local organizations will present old Hong Kong visually. Funded by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, the exhibition will feature 1960s miniature replicas of buildings from Wind Concept Art & Culture Association, its first public display. We will also feature AI-enabled colorized images from the 20th century contributed by OldHKinColour. Through these colorful historical pictures and miniatures, the bricks and stones of Hong Kong architecture, culture, and history will bring the past to life.
Exhibition Partner:
OldHKinColour (oldhkincolour.org) focuses on colorizing and animating old Hong Kong photos by using artificial intelligence and post-editing techniques with a view to promoting public education through history. (Exhibited Image and video list)
Wind Concept Art & Culture Association strives to promote art and cultural conservation through the efforts of Mr. Daniel Wong Wing Fai since 2018. In 2021, the old Hong Kong miniature project was launched by Mr. Eric Yung and Miss Kay Kan, who hand-crafted a set of nostalgic 1960s Hong Kong buildings.
Talk:
Research projects on the integration between Hong Kong studies and state-of-the-art technology have flourished in recent years. OldHKinColour, an Instagram page that has managed to attract the attention of over 130,000 Hong Kong culture enthusiasts over the past two years, is one representative project. OldHKinColour focuses on colorizing historical photos of old Hong Kong with the aid of artificial intelligence and post-editing techniques.
This talk aims to provide a brief introduction to OldHKinColour, including its research background, photo selection and restoration process as well as interesting stories reflected in the images. It will also discuss future directions of the project such as colorizing monochrome footage of the city, developing web-based applications for the promotion of Hong Kong stories, creating an online platform for a 3D virtual tour of Central in the late 19th century, and publishing a book of selected colorized pictures.
*The talk will be conducted in Cantonese.
About the speaker:
SIU Sai Yau (aka Loka Siu) is the founder of OldHKinColour, specialized in photo colorization and digital history. He received his BA (First Class Honors) and MPhil from The University of Hong Kong and completed his Ph.D. in Translation at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. His research interests include Digital Humanities and AI, Translation History, Chinese Studies, and Buddhist Scripture Translation.Talk + Exhibition Preview on campus
December 10, 2022 (Saturday)
In-person Event Program:
2:00pm - 2:30pm Guests check-in
2:30pm - 3:20pm Heritage tour
3:30pm - 4:30pm Hybrid talk by Professor Sai Yau Siu
4:30pm - 5:30pm Exhibition preview
5:30pm Event ends
Online Zoom webinar
December 10, 2022 (Saturday)
3:30pm Hong Kong | Beijing | Singapore
4:30pm Japan
1:00pm Delhi
8:30am Paris
7:30am London
1:30am Chicago
Regular Exhibition
December 13, 2022, to October 31, 2023 (available from Tuesday to Saturday, except public holidays)
REGULAR VISIT BOOKING
*Contact us at heritage_enquiry@uchicago.edu for group visit arrangement
*We will continue to monitor the situation of Covid-19 and review our arrangements. Please stay tuned to our website (https://heritage.uchicago.hk/) for the latest updates.
展覽：
本次芝加哥大學香港校園與兩間機構合作，以視覺化的方式展示香港舊街景。由香港賽馬會慈善信託基金捐助，該展覽展出了來自雲念文化藝術協會首次公開展示的1960年代建築微縮模型，以及由OldHKinColour提供的人工智能增色的20世紀舊照片。冀通過這些彩色的歷史圖片和微縮模型，重現香港老建築的一磚一瓦、和歷史文化。
展覽合作夥伴：
OldHKinColour (oldhkincolour.org) 致力利用人工智能和後製技術，將香港舊照片彩色化，並添加動態效果，以期推動公眾歷史教育。(展出圖片及視頻表單)雲念文化藝術協會由王永輝先生於2018年成立，致力於推廣文化藝術保育。2021年，協會發起了是次舊香港面貌微縮模型計劃，由翁送強先生和簡安妍小姐在兩年時間內搜羅，準備，並製作一系列1960年代的香港建築模型
演講：
近年，探討融合香港研究與尖端科技的研究項目發展蓬勃，Instagram平台OldHKinColour是其中一個代表之作，該專頁致力利用人工智能和後製技術，為香港舊照添上色彩，過去兩年成功吸引超過13萬香港文化愛好者支持。
本講座旨在簡介OldHKinColour項目，包括其研究背景、照片選擇和修復程序，以及歷史相片中反映的有趣舊事。此外，講者會討論項目的未來發展方向，如修復香港黑白影片、開發推廣香港故事的線上系統、設計十九世紀末中環三維虛擬遊覽平台、出版彩色化照片精選集等。
*該講座以粵語進行
關於講者：
蕭世友是OldHKinColour的創辦人，專攻照片彩色化和數位歷史學，他在香港大學取得文學士（一級榮譽）和哲學碩士，並於香港中文大學考獲翻譯學哲學博士，現為香港恒生大學助理教授，其研究興趣包括數位人文與人工智能、翻譯史、中國研究和佛經翻譯。校園演講 + 展覽預覽
2022年12月10日（週六）
線下活動安排
2:00pm - 2:30pm 活動簽到
2:30pm - 3:20pm 文物展示中心導賞團
3:30pm - 4:30pm 蕭世友演講
4:30pm - 5:30pm 展覽預覽
5:30pm 活動結束線上演講
2022年12月10日（週六）
3:30pm 香港| 北京 | 新加坡
4:30pm 日本
1:00pm 德里
8:30am 巴黎
7:30am 倫敦
1:30am 芝加哥常規展覽
2022年12月13日 – 2023年10月31日(星期二到星期六，公共假期除外)
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About Hong Kong Redux
The UChicago Yuen Campus’ new Yuen Lecture Series ‘Hong Kong Redux’ seeks to explore the deep corners of Hong Kong’s cultural history and society. UChicago and other subject matter experts representing decades of knowledge of Hong Kong will join together to celebrate the evolution of Hong Kong’s arts, literature, cinema and more. Get in the Yuen Campus team’s virtual time machine to have a nostalgic look back at Hong Kong’s bygone Post War era and discover how Hong Kong became the mega-city it is today. Read More