<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-4844268d-7fff-ea6a-35d3-35940a33297a" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Zoom event: 11th January, 0830 EST / 1430 CET / 2130 HKT </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;white-space:normal">RSVP required: </span><a href="https://bit.ly/3kC2RPK" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;white-space:normal">https://bit.ly/3kC2RPK</a><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MIT-based artist Kwan Q Li and architect Joel Cunningham will share their project </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">No humans in the City, but Weeds</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - a piece of artistic research that examines an emerging trend of data-centre urbanism. This collaborative project commenced in 2019 and intends to stimulate collective imagination around the agency and performativity of human communities within increasingly post-human urban environments.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The project’s short film was exhibited at the </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">2021 Venice Biennale International Architecture</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (Hong Kong Pavilion), while a related academic paper is scheduled to be published by </span><span style="font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">AI & Society</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> Journal (2022). This project was funded by the Hong Kong Design Trust and the Council for the Arts at MIT.</span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Following the duo presentation, Director of Smart City Research and Industry Collaboration at the MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">,</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sunnie Lau, curator and writer Vere van Gool, and multidisciplinary designer Sam Ghantous will respond to the presentation. The conversation will focus on different means of performing in the margins, with perspectives from urban design, writing, curating, and web design. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">An online archive of the project can be found at </span><a href="https://nohumans.city/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://nohumans.city</span></a><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - a website created in collaboration with design studio Foreign Objects. </span></p></span><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div></div>