Keith Lam is a Hong Kong media artist. He is the co-founder and artistic director of Dimension Plus, an arts & technology team based in Hong Kong and Taiwan, dedicated to the creation and curation of artistic and technological projects. Lam presented “Moving Mario” at the 11th Microwave International New Media Arts Festival, Hong Kong, in 2007, and was awarded Honorary Mentions in Interactive Arts at PRIX Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, in 2008.
He was the recipient of the Young Artist Award at the 3rd Hong Kong Arts Development Awards, Hong Kong, the same year. In 2013, Lam's work “One Day Social Sculpture” was awarded Art Division Jury Selections at the 17th Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo, Japan. In 2024, he was awarded Artist of the Year (Media Arts) at the 18th Hong Kong Arts Development Awards, Hong Kong. Lam received a scholarship to attend New York University in 2000 and a subsidy to further his education in New Media Arts at Hong Kong Art School. He joined the School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong as a Research Assistant and was appointed as a full-time teaching staff member from 2004 to 2009. In 2005, he obtained a Master of Science in Electronic Information Engineering at the same university.
In early 2009, Lam became a full-time artist and co-founded Dimension Plus with Taiwanese curator Escher Tsai. In late 2023, Dimension Plus was selected as one of the venue partners of East Kowloon Cultural Centre. Lam has been actively involved in a diverse range of curatorial projects both independently and with Dimension Plus. These projects include “Hello, Human”, MoCA, Taipei (2024), “Project Playaround”, Hong Kong (2023), “Sensory Transcode”, ARTS+TECH by Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Hong Kong (2022), “Hylozoism: An Arts & Technology Exhibition”, HKDI Gallery, Hong Kong (2022), and “Sensory Canvas”, Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai (2019).
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