Floating Island

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I’ve refined my sub-topics on Hong Kong’s cultural policy into the following categories:
1) Cultural Policy 10 Years After the Handover - This section will provide an overview of the different institutions that have emerged to direct cultural policy since the handover, along with assessments of their relative success.
2) […]

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Text – I’ve been conducting research on various arts organizations and government policies relating to the arts. I have a lot of material and references, such as the Arts Development Council reports on Hong Kong’s arts and cultural indicators (2005) and its a ten-year review (2006), a policy report from the Culture and Heritage Commission, […]

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Overview
Because my project deals primarily with ideas and policies, I think it will probably be best served by a static text-dominant approach, with a number of hyperlinks pointing to outside sources, with some photos and possibly interviews as well, to create a more interactive experience for the reader.
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As both Foust and McAdams point out, it […]

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Hong Kong, 7 March 2007

This is Hong Kong ArtWalk 2007.

The Hong Kong ArtWalk recently wrapped up its seventh successful year. ArtWalk in Hong Kong is an annual event organized by the the Hong Kong Commercial Art Galleries Association (HKCAGA) and it’s billed as the city’s largest art charity event. The regular admission price is not […]

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After looking around our classmates’ del.icio.us pages, I subscribed to those of aiyahenator, ejong, radiocat and janeho. I also subscribed to a technorati feed of the tags “hongkong art” and a couple of flickr feeds for photo pools of Hong Kong’s art, street art, heritage, and music performances.
From these feeds, I picked up a couple […]

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This week, I created an entry on Wikipedia and lived to recount the experience.
To be honest, I’m utterly exhausted after travelling to India, getting sick and spending an insane amount of time putting together an entry on Hong Kong’s cultural policy. Hong Kong’s arts and culture scene is poorly represented in the wiki world, so […]

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This is a preliminary list of websites and feeds that will be relevant to my new media project on cross-border art and cultural impacts since 1997:

The website of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department provides a braod array of official information on Hong Kong’s cultural offerings and its arts scene. It includes a page of […]

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I’d like to examine the role of artistic and cultural exchanges between Hong Kong and mainland China in the 10 years since 1997.
We’ve seen increasing collaboration in some areas, such as film production, and also an increase in stage and musical performances from mainland China. I expect that with the coming handover anniversary, there will […]

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