Following the footstep of Japanese artist Masaki Fujihata, the Jockey Club Augmented Reality in Arts Education Project officially started on 2 October 2021.

 

Our journey started in Yau Ma Tei, where participants separated into four teams to look into four historical streets: Reclamation Street, Shanghai Street, Temple Street and Portland Street, each with fascinating stories throughout the history.

Participants looked for narratives from on-site objects from the streets and interviewed locals to collect their memories. With these resources, they tried to dive into the past of Yau Ma Tei through a series of sensory observations. From the relevance of sight and touch to associations with hearing, smell, taste, and finally our personal cognition and perception. Each team gradually built their ideas and started developing their preliminary conceptual framework for their own AR public art project.

To better understand the whole creative process, our participants moved from Yau Ma Tei to Hong Kong Baptist University’s Academy of Visual Arts and joined an Open Introductory Lecture by Masaki Fujihata, in which he presented the conceptualisation and the process of his AR public art project “HKACT! Act 1 BeHere” (2018), and how it can was used to interpret and developed to a new creative AR art educational project: the Jockey Club Augmented Reality in Arts Education Project.
 

To learn more about HKACT! Act 1 BeHere, please visit http://behere.hkact.hk/.