Position: Assistant Professor of Practice in Media Arts
Email: ruihu@hkust-gz.edu.cn
Research Area (s): media arts practice, artistic use of virtual simulation, applied 3D graphics, media installation, time and temporality.
As an artist, Rui Hu works with moving images, computer graphics, installation, game and virtual simulation technologies. His practice and research explore the issues of time and temporality from a multitude of perspectives, such as causation, prediction, decision, and language.
He has received the Best Experimental Animation Award at the 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival, a Jury Special Mention at the 25FPS Festival in Croatia, a finalist of the IFVA Award from the Hong Kong Arts Centre, a UCLA Clifton Webb Scholarship, and a SAIC New Artists Society Award. Texts on his work can be found in Artforum, Artforum China, Ocula, Killscreen, etc. His work has been shown in exhibitions and screenings at art spaces, institutions, and film festivals internationally, including the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Three Shadows Xiamen Photography Art Centre, Ann Arbor Film Festival, International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), Images Festival at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Videotage, among others.
He holds a M.F.A. in Design Media Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles and a B.F.A. in Film with a minor in Computer Science from New York University. He is an Assistant Professor of Practice in Computational Media and Arts at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) since 2020.
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