Tully Arnot
Tully Arnot’s interdisciplinary practice explores models of plant-based multisensory perception as well as how technology mediates our relationships with the natural world, through areas including plant robotics and the simulation of nature. This expands on earlier work that negotiated how emergent ways of being are facilitated by social media and human-robot interactions, including with AI, companionship robots and consumer level replacements of human pleasure, connection and labour. Through exploring these fields, Arnot’s practice looks to understand how these relationships with various non-sentient forms reflect upon our own capacity to interact meaningfully with one another, in a hyperconnected but disconnected reality.
Alice dos Reis
Alice dos Reis is an artist, filmmaker and researcher. She has exhibited, solo and in group, at the Serralves Museum for Contemporary Art (Porto), Canal Projects (NYC), Kunsthalle Lissabon (Lisbon), Gallerie D’Italia (Torino), among others. Her films have been shown at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), EYE Film Museum (Amsterdam), and others, as well as in various international film festivals. Recently Alice was a recipient of Fundacion Botin Visual Arts Grants (2022-2023), and previously, the Mondriaan Fonds Stipend for Young Artists (2020-2021). Alongside her work, Alice is currently pursuing a PhD degree at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. She also co-runs Pântano Books, an independent poetry press.
Lo Lai Lai Natalie
Lo Lai Lai Natalie is currently a PhD candidate at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. Lai Lai is a former travel journalist. She finds her interests in food, farming, fermentation, surveillance, and meditation. She has a farming practice, using photography, video and installation as a means to interact with nature. Lai Lai received the WMA Commission Grant on the theme of Opportunity in Hong Kong and she was the Gold Award recipient of the Media Art Category of the 26th ifva Award, Hong Kong in 2021. Her artwork was granted as honorary mention in “State of the ART(ist)” of Ars Electronics Festival 2024. She will be participating in Lahore Biennale 03 in 2024.
Park Ji Yun
Park Ji Yun works with illustration, photography, craft and film to learn from more-than-humans and deconstruct species hierarchies. After moving to Hong Kong, she has been exploring the multispecies ecosphere through artistic practices based on urban ecology, critical plant studies, and ecofeminism. She recently finished an ecocinema piece ‘(Welcome to) the Planet of Orchids’ with native orchids of Hong Kong for her Doctoral research project. In this film, orchid protagonists are the indigenous beings who have been surviving under human colonisation. She is now finalising its accompanying thesis.
Zimu Zhang
Zimu Zhang is an environmental humanities scholar working on visual culture, eco-cinema and ecofeminist arts. She is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Literature and Cultural Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong. She is the recipient of the 2022 Landhaus fellowship at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU and 2023 VisitANTS fellowship in Critical Studies of Biodiversity and the Anthropocene Research at University of Oulu, Finland. Her current research projects focus on hydrosociality of the creative arts and cultural narratives from the Southern China waterscape, delta and archipelagos. Along with her academic research, Zimu also practises filmmaking and curation.
