MISSION
The Indra and Harry Banga Gallery supports the University’s vision to excel in research and professional education through artistic, innovative, technology-rich and cross-disciplinary exhibitions that engage the community.
5 EXHIBITION SIGNATURE FEATURES
From its founding, the Indra and Harry Banga Gallery has introduced new and original ways of presenting art and culture, leveraging CityU’s strength in AR and VR technology. The Banga Gallery uniquely combines new media with cultural artifacts, creates an immersive, distinct, experiential environment for each exhibition, and bridges traditional cultural divides.
Since establishment, the Gallery has been recognized for these defining exhibition features:
• Merging Art, Science, and Technology
• Creating Immersive Environments
• Integrating Interactive Displays into Design
• Preserving Cultural Heritage
• Bridging Asian and Western Cultures
Merging Art, Science and Technology
The ANIMAL exhibition drew on original objects, 3D virtual images of precious objects, films, music, oral stories, contemporary art to evoke humans’ relation to animals in Chinese culture and in contemporary world.
Creating Immersive Environment
Cabinet of Curiosities exhibition used sound, projected images, printed veils, wall images along with the art objects to plunge visitor into different time and space.
Integrating Interactive Displays into Design
The Leonardo exhibition used VR, 3D modelling, interactive screens to present 12 original drawings by Leonardo, allowing the general public to understand Leonardo’s creative genius. The second half of the exhibition featured contemporary works that responded to Leonardo, some allowing the viewer virtually to enter into the work itself.
Preserving Cultural Heritage
Using motion capture technology, curator able to preserve steps of deceased martial art master, performed by his grandson. And with Virtual reality, the deceased could be shown as if he were ‘performing’ the movements himself.
Bridging Western and Asian Cultures
Many of our exhibitions, like “Art Deco. The France-China Connection”, purposefully explore the artistic and cultural mutual influences between Europe and Asia. With Art Deco it was a pleasure to reveal how Asian art influenced the development of Art Deco in Paris, and then show local transformation of the style by China with Shanghai and Hong Kong Art Deco artworks and objects.
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Professor and Head,
Department of Chinese and History, CityUHK
Associate Professor,
School of Creative Media, CityUHK
Associate Vice-President,
(Development and Alumni Relations) and
Secretary General of CityUHK Foundation, CityUHK
Director,
Indra and Harry Banga Gallery, CityUHK
Associate Director,
Development Office, CityUHK
Development Manager,
Development Office, CityUHK
Senior Officer (Art-Tech Research and Initiatives),
Indra and Harry Banga Gallery, CityUHK
