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Prof. LEUNG Hok Bun Isaac

Prof. LEUNG Hok Bun Isaac

Associate Professor

B.F.A. (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA), M.Phil (LingU), PhD (CityU)

About Prof. LEUNG Hok Bun Isaac

Prof. Isaac Leung is a practicing artist, curator, and scholar in art and culture. In 2003, Leung received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Over the last few decades, he has initiated and participated in various projects, including exhibitions, workshops, lectures, publications, online projects, and symposia. Some of these projects include ’40 Years of Video Art’ (Hong Kong, China; and Germany), ‘The 12th Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition’ (Venice, Italy), ‘Time Test – International Video Art Research Exhibition’ (Beijing, China), ‘ISEA Festival’ (Hong Kong, China), ‘Both Sides Now’ (Hong Kong, China; the UK; and various countries), ‘Loop Barcelona’ (Barcelona, Spain), ‘One World Exposition’ (Hong Kong, China), ‘China Remixed’ (Indiana, USA), ‘Clockenflap’ (Hong Kong, China), ‘Art Basel Crowdfunding Initiative’ (Hong Kong, China), and ‘Beyond the Singularity’ (Hong Kong, China). Leung is currently an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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  • Research Interests
    • Artificial Intelligence
      Art and technology
      Arts management
      Contemporary art
      Contemporary Chinese art
      Creative industries and art market
      Cultural historiography and ethnography
      Cultural studies
      Curation and exhibition studies
  • Recent Research ProjectS
    1. 2023 Principal Investigator, Digital Disruption—The Emerging Field of Non-Fungible Token in the Art World, General Research Fund 2022/23, Research Grant Council, The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
    2. 2021-22 Principal Investigator, Special Funding Scheme for Online Learning (supported by the Teaching Development and Language Enhancement Grant for 2019-22), The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
    3. 2020-21 Principal Investigator, Artrepreneur – An Emerging Shape of Cultural Entrepreneurship in Hong Kong, Direct Grant, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
    4. 2020-21 Principal Investigator, Funding Scheme for Virtual Teaching and Learning (for Faculties and the Office of University General Education), The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
    5. 2018-19 Principal Investigator, An Ethnographic Study on Chinese Private Museums in the Context of the China’s Recent Cultural Policies, Early Career Scheme 2017/18, Research Grant Council, The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
  • Representative Publications
    Books
    1. 2023 Tracing Contemporary Chinese Art: An Ethnographic Journey through a Decade in Shanghai. Palgrave Macmillan (Springer Nature), 2023.
    Journal Papers
    1. forthcoming “Idol-chasing, Frenzy—public screens, Popular Culture and Urban space.” Journal of Cultural Studies.
    2. 2023 “Power and Knowledge: The Birth of Museums in China.” Museum Anthropology, Wiley,  46(1): 26–34.
    3. 2022 with Poposki, Zoran. “Hong Kong as a global art hub: Art ecology and sustainability of Asia’s art market centre.” Arts, Special Issue “A 10-Year Journey of Arts”. 11(1), 29.
    4. 2021 Artificial Landscape: in search of publicness through urban spectacle in Hong Kong.” Architecture_MPS, UCL Press, 20(1): 1-12.
    Books Chapters
    1. 2023 “Museum Frenzy: Notes from the Field on Studying The True Color Museum.” In Menene Gras, Jonathan Harris and Bashir Makhoul (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Art in Global Asia. Routledge. 2023, pp. 225–232.
    2. 2023 “Architecture And Disciplinary knowledge: A Case Study of Hong Kong’s Heritage and Politics.”In Graham Carins (ed.) Architecture, Media, Populism… and Violence: Reification and Representation II: 2. Routledge, 2023, pp. 70–90.
    3. 2022 “‘COVID-19 Is Accelerating the Art World’s Adoption of Technology’ — Does More Advanced Technology Lead to Better Art Exhibitions?” In Frank Vigneron and Joanna HY Lee (eds.) Hong Kong Visual Arts Overview 2020. The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, pp. 47–81.
    4. 2021 “The Resilient City: When Social Activism Meets Media Arts in Hong Kong.”In Eliza Steinbock, Bram Ieven and Marijke de Valck (eds.) Art and Activism in the Age of Systemic Crisis: Aesthetic Resilience. Routledge, pp. 117–129.
    5. 2019 “From Personal History to an Avant-Garde Movement: A Brief History of Videotage and Video Art in Hong Kong.” In Hanru Hou and Bei Xi (eds.) The D-Tale: Video Art from the Pearl River Delta. Sternberg Press, Berlin, pp. 252–261.
    6. 2019 Leung, Isaac HB, et al. “Digitisation with (in/out) Borders.” In Jeroen de Kloet, Chow Yiu Fai and Lena Scheen (eds.) Boredom, Shanzhai, and Digitisation in the Time of Creative China. Amsterdam University Press, pp. 307–314.
    7. 2017 “Sham Shui Po: Tactical urbanism or a precursor to gentrification?”. In Jurgen Krusche and Siu King Chung eds. Deep Water – Public Spaces in Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong. MCCM: Hong Kong, pp. 21-29.
    8. 2009 “The Representation of Sex Machines.” In Johannes Grenzfurthner (ed.) Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep? Re/Search Publications, San Francisco, CA, pp. 16–35.
    Conference Papers
    1. 2020 “Connections: Exploring Heritage, Architecture, Cities, Art, Media.” Architecture_MPS (UCL Press), Screen Cultures, Artistic Intervention, and Publicness – A Case Study of an Art Project in Public Screen in Hong Kong.
    2. 2021 “Online Education: Teaching In a Time of Change.” Architecture_MPS (UCL Press), Using Telepresence And Social Technologies To Create Social Impact.
    Non-Refereed Publications
    1. 2017 “Our Exhibition Embraced Selfies, Snapchat, and Shopping Malls-and Went Viral.” Zócalo Public Square (Arizona State University Media Enterprise). 3 Oct 2017.
    2. 2016 “The Observer’s Paradox?”. International Association of Theatre Critics Journal. 15 Dec 2016.
    3. 2016 “Creating a brave new art world.” International Association of Theatre Critics Journal. 1 Mar 2016.
    4. 2012 “One World Exposition. In Between Hong Kong and China – mediation as a world-making process.” Art In China (The International Art & Culture Foundation of Spain), 2012, pp. 6-15.
  • OTHER PROJECTS, ACHIEVEMENTS, AND/OR AWARDS
    Awards
    1. 2023 The Faculty of Arts Outstanding Teaching Award 2023, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
    2. 2019 The Faculty of Arts Outstanding Teaching Award 2019, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

     

 

>>  Click here to Prof. Leung's profile on BA Programme in Cultural Management website.