Lecture：Hybrid Tales for Hybrid Times: Cross-pollinations between art, design and science
【Lecture Arrangement Notice】
Due to adverse weather conditions, the on-site lecture “Hybrid Tales for Hybrid Times: Cross-pollinations between art, design and science”, originally scheduled for 23 September at 7:00 p.m., has been cancelled. The lecture will be livestreamed earlier than planned. The recording in the original English language will be available for replay, with a Mandarin Chinese interpreted version also offered later. We appreciate your understanding and support.
Review the live streaming, please click (MAM Youtube)
In this lecture, Angelique Spaninks will share insights from nearly fifteen years of running the Bio Art & Design Award (BAD). This award aims to bring together talented young artists and designers from all over the world with renowned scientists and their research teams based in the Netherlands to explore innovative projects at the intersection of health, food, ecology, biotech, and more.
Each year, the BAD receives proposals from over twenty-five countries. After a selection process and matchmaking session, twelve teams were formed and competed for the three awards. Those teams collaborate to transform their creative ideas into art installations that blend scientific research with artistic expression. These works are showcased in a thematic bio art exhibition at MU Hybrid Art House, attracting a growing audience and deepening their understanding of contemporary art and scientific developments.
Angelique Spaninks will also highlight the cases from over forty winning projects and discuss how these projects continue to travel the world and foster knowledge exchange. Through this lecture, attendees will gain a deeper understanding of the latest trends in bio art and explore the possibilities of future intersections between art and science.
Speaker: Angelique Spaninks
Angelique Spaninks has built her hybrid and generalist practice along with an extensive network in the art world over the past 30 years as a director, curator, board member, advisor, critic, and journalist. In doing so, she has consistently chosen to cross and stretch the disciplinary boundaries between digital culture, design, and contemporary visual arts. For her, art and culture create added value in connection to society and people, where collaboration is indispensable. The foundation for this was laid during her studies in Journalism and Art and Cultural Sciences.
Following her education, she worked in media for 10 years, initially on the art editorial staff of VNU newspapers and later as chief of the central editorial staff.
Since 2005, she has served as the director-curator of MU Hybrid Art House in Eindhoven, a role she held alongside that of director and artistic director of the STRP Biennial for creative technologies from 2012 to 2018. In both capacities, she has worked internationally as a curator, including for the 6th Guangzhou Triennial in China, and has provided advice in various committees and think tanks. Since 2014, Spaninks has coordinated and managed the international Bio Art & Design Award, an annual prize recognizing three teams of talented artists and scientists in the fields of biotechnology, life sciences, and ecology. Since 2023, she has been the chair of De Zaak Nu, the organization representing the interests of non-profit art institutions in the Netherlands.
Moderator: Liu Gang, Co-curator of “Art Macao 2025”
Livestream Time: 22/09/2025 (Monday) 15:30
Venue: Auditorium of Macao Museum of Art
Target Participants: People aged 13 and above
Language: English
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Talk & Dialogue: The Public Nature of Public Art
【Event arrangement notice】
Due to adverse weather conditions, the talk “Talk & Dialogue: The Public Nature of Public Art”, originally scheduled for 24 September at 7:00 p.m. at the Auditorium of Macao Museum of Art, has been cancelled. We apologise for any inconvenience caused and appreciate your understanding and support.
Drawing from the creations by individual artists, intervention methods, and level of public engagement in the public art section of this year’s Macao International Art Biennale, this discussion panel explores how to establish a resonant and interactive public discourse platform that expands the boundaries of public art. Moving beyond traditional artist roles and rigid, artistic forms in public art, the panel aims to foster a symbiotic, shared, and empathetic ‘intimacy’ between public art and the public, bridging the gap between artists and audiences, artworks and participants. The goal is to cultivate a broad, freshly dynamic, and vibrant new approach to ‘presential’ public art.
Speaker and moderator: Wu Wei, curator
Speakers:
Participating artists: Ann Hamilton (USA), Yin Xiuzhen (China), Jason Ho (Australia), Assemble (UK)
Curators: Feng Boyi, Liu Gang
Date: 24/09/2025 (Wednesday)
Time: 19:00-20:30
Venue: Auditorium, 1/F, Macao Museum of Art
Target Participants: People aged 13 and above
Language: English (with simultaneous interpretation in Mandarin available)
Number of Participants: 70 people. Admission by drawing lots. Free admission.
Registration: 05-19/09/2025 apply on "Macau One Account". (Registration starting from 05/09/2025 10:00am and admission list to be announced on 22/09/2025.)
Workshop: Exploration of Inner Aliens (Completed)
Artist Chan Hung-Lu will showcase his video installation Close Encounters with Inner Aliens at the Main Exhibition of Art Macao 2025, and this workshop is an extended activity of the artwork. The artist will lead participants to re-imagine aliens from inside and out in three phases: science, science fiction and neuroscience, thus exploring how human beings, who are subject to strong historical, cultural and social influences, perceive and conceive various ‘inner aliens’. By combining meditation practices and AI image generation technology, this workshop will guide participants to visualise the alienated others in their mind and discuss and reflect on the origins and differences of these inner aliens.
Note: Participants are required to bring along their smart phone. During the workshop, they will use the smart phone to generate images after connecting to an AI generation page. A Wi-Fi network is available at the venue.
Instructor: Chan Hung-Lu
Date: 19/07/2025 (Saturday)
Date: 10:00-11:30 (For Public - Registration)
18:30-20:00 (For Friends of MAM - Registration)
Venue: Gathering at MAM Reception
Target Participants: People aged 13 and above
Language: Mandarin
Number of Participants: 10 people per session. Admission by drawing lots. Free admission.
Registration: 03–16/07/2025 apply on "Macau One Account". (Registration starting from 03/07/2025 and admission list to be announced on 17/07/2025.)
Talk & Dialogue: Curatorial Issues in Art Macao: Macao International Art Biennale 2025 (Completed)
By sharing the processes and experiences of curating and participating in the Macao International Art Biennale 2025, the curator and artists will talk about the Biennale’s theme, concept, implementation details, ensuing discrepancies and the outcomes, before extending the topics directly to the current status, issues and predicaments in curating large regular exhibitions. The speakers will also discuss the thoughts, strategies and solutions involved using this year’s Biennale as a case study.
Speaker and moderator: Feng Boyi
Speakers: Liu Gang, Wu Wei, Song Dong and Xue Feng
Date: 19/07/2025 (Saturday)
Time: 15:00-16:30
Venue: Auditorium of Macao Museum of Art
Target Participants: People aged 13 and above
Language: Mandarin (with simultaneous interpretation in English available)
Number of Participants: 70 people. Admission by drawing lots. Free admission.
Registration: 03–16/07/2025 apply on "Macau One Account". (Registration starting from 03/07/2025 and admission list to be announced on 17/07/2025.)