🖼️Artist Talk | Affordable Journey to Unaffordable Nostalgia (Online)

How do artists get from first idea to finished exhibition? This online talk follows the artistic journeys of the artists behind the exhibition Unaffordable Nostalgia. They will discuss their research and production methods and their approaches to experimentation.

The talk is mainly for students studying art in Hong Kong. Anyone who wants to learn more about the artists is welcome to join. Zoom link at Bio 🔗

📅 Thursday, 29 October 2026

🕙 10:00–11:30am (HK) / 11:00am–12:30pm (KST)

💻 Online via Zoom Meeting

🗣️ Korean-English consecutive interpretation provided

🎤 Presenters: Ubac Studio and Foreseen Agency

👥 Moderators: Min-hyung Kang & Wong Ka Ying

👩‍🎨Presenters

Ubac Studio is a Seoul-based media artist duo made up of Hyeunjoo Woo and Jiyun Park. Their XR-based interactive installations explore the moments when technology’s construction of the world collides with individual sensory experience. Their work has been presented at the Immersive Competition of the 79th Festival de Cannes, Venice Immersive at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival, Ars Electronica, and the Powerhouse Museum. They received the Festivals Connexion Award at Annecy 2026 and the New Media Artist Award at NeMAF 2025.

Foreseen Agency is an artist duo formed by Shan Wong and Kachi Chan. Through participatory research and speculative design, they examine how capitalist, technological, and social systems intersect. Their work reveals the invisible logics of control, value generation, and techno-social infrastructures. They have shown work at Asia Culture Centre (Gwangju), UAAD (NYC), Singapore Art Week (2026), and Diriyah Art Futures (Riyadh). They have co-authored papers in Leonardo (MIT Press), SIGGRAPH, and ISEA.

🎤Moderators

Min-hyung Kang is a curator and interpreter/translator working across English, Japanese, and Korean. She is interested in trans-locality and decentralisation in art practice. She founded and directed the nonprofit art organisation Barim (2014–2024) and runs the DEGITAL platform. She is currently a co-organiser of Forking Room, a platform for critical engagement with art, technology, and society.

Wong Ka Ying is a Hong Kong artist, curator, writer, and PhD candidate in Cultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her practice explores art's potential to redistribute power,Diriyah Art Futures (Riyadh). They have co-authored papers in Leonardo (MIT Press), SIGGRAPHarticular attention to Asian migrants and migrant workers in transnational and diasporic contexts.