HENRY CHU'S "F10W3R AZALEAS (F10W3R 杜鵑)"

Henry Chu’s work is inspired by the radio announcements he’d heard in his youth, proclaiming that the azaleas in the Government House on Upper Albert Road are in full bloom. He has preserved the forever blossoming flowers in digital form, against a beautiful Hong Kong skyline.

Henry Chu is a Hong Kong–based designer, programmer, and digital artist. He is a graduate from the Electrical and Computer Engineering programme at the University of Auckland and founded pill & pillow in 2004. The independent studio has won more than 200 local and international awards including recognition at the Cannes Lions, Webby, and One Show.

Harnessing data, music and body movements, his art has been exhibited in museums, including Museum of Modern Art, New York (2011), M+ Museum, Hong Kong (2020) and a solo show at Hong Kong Museum of Art, titled “Portrait Play” (2022 to 2023). In 2021 he presented “Blockchain Piano” in the inaugural edition of Digital Art Fair Asia, converting crypto prices into music in real-time, allowing visitors to buy crypto through playing a song. In 2022, his installation work SURIV in group show “Medicine and Healthcare Through the Lens of Digital Art” at the Hong Kong University employed real-time Covid data in a colourful, gamified concept which drew attention to the ongoing contemporary struggle against infections. Major 2023 projects include commissions from Audemars Piguet, Bank of China and HSBC to create a series of digital artworks and installations. Also in 2023, Chu translated a four-part symphony into live visual art, performing the “Metaverse Symphony” in real life and simultaneously in the Sandbox, with the Hong Kong Philharmonic. In the same year, he presented with Ora-Ora at Art Basel Hong Kong.

Henry Chu的作品源自憶起小時候,透過收音機廣播聽到中環上亞厘畢道香港禮賓府開放予市民觀賞杜鵑花的消息;為保留杜鵑花美麗的瞬間,他運用新媒體技術捕捉其獨特形態,讓杜鵑花在數位世界中永恆綻放。

朱力行 (@henryc.hu) 是一位香港設計師、編程師和數位藝術家,畢業於新西蘭奧克蘭大學電子和計算機工程學系。他在 2004 年創立的 pill & pillow 至今已獲得 200 多個本地和國際獎項,其中包括坎城國際創意節、威比獎和 One Show 獎等認可。
他利用數據、音樂和肢體動作進行創作。這些藝術品曾在多家博物館展出,包括MoMA紐約現代藝術博物館(2011 年)、香港 M+ 博物館(2020 年)以及香港藝術館的個人展「不加思索自畫像」(2022 – 2023 年)。 2021 年,他在首屆亞洲數位藝術博覽會上展示《區塊鏈鋼琴》,這件作品將加密貨幣的價格即時轉換為音樂,讓參觀者透過演奏樂曲購買加密貨幣。 2022 年,他為香港大學舉辦的「醫光研影:醫學數位藝術展」群展中創作的裝置作品《SURIV》,把實時 Covid 數據轉換為多彩的遊戲化概念,引起人們關注人類與感染的角力。 2023年的主要項目包括受 愛彼、中國銀行和匯豐銀行 委託創作的一系列數位藝術品和裝置。同樣在 2023 年,朱力行將一部四樂章交響曲轉化為現場視覺藝術,與香港管弦樂團一同在現實裡和「沙盒」虛擬空間內同步表演「元宇宙交響曲」。同年,他與Ora-Ora藝廊一起亮相香港巴塞爾藝術展。