The presentation will be in Cantonese.
Please RSVP by emailing chk.library@utoronto.ca.
Abstract
Video game preservation has been underway in North America, Europe, and Japan for over a decade. However, it has received insufficient attention in Asia, despite the fact that the region boasts a large gaming population. Hong Kong was a port city that possessed exceptional freedom in Asia and accumulated massive game materials from the region, allowing gamers to buy different versions of games in the city. What role can Hong Kong gamers and cultural researchers play in video game preservation? What have Hong Kong game preservationists been doing in recent years, and what are their plans for the future? The two speakers will share their experiences with the audience.
電子遊戲保育在北美、歐洲和日本已經發展了十多年，但在擁有大量遊戲人口的亞洲，卻沒太多人關注此議題。作為亞洲的港口城市，香港曾經擁有不少在區域內少見的自由，讓遊戲玩家可以在城市中購買到不同版本的遊戲，也積累了大量遊戲材料。香港的遊戲玩家和文化研究者可以在電子遊戲保育方面扮演什麼角色？香港的遊戲保育者在過去幾年中做了些甚麼，未來又有甚麼計劃？兩位演講者將分享他們的經驗給觀眾。
Speakers
Dixon Wu 胡耀東先生 , founder of RETRO.HK, has been passionate about gaming since age four. He spent high school collecting rare games, building arcade machines, and researching console hardware. He studied Game Design in Los Angeles, where he worked on Spider Man 3 for Treyarch/Activision. Now based in Hong Kong, Dixon is an entrepreneur and lead consultant for various mobile apps, online game platforms, and startup projects.
Dr. Joseph Li 李祖喬博士 is a lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. He has a PhD in Cultural Studies from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a Master's degree in Social Science from the National University of Singapore. He was a recipient of the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship and the Global Humanities Junior Fellowship at Freie Universitaet Berlin. Dr. Li is an interdisciplinary practitioner of socio-cultural studies and has published in various journals. He is active in knowledge transfer and has written for multiple newspapers and magazines. He has also translated two academic books from English to Chinese.
Moderator
Mitchell Ma (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto)
Selected video games and related other materials will be on display in the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library during the event.