Event: VR Workshop with Dr. Marty Miller: Reframing

Date: April 16, 2026 (Thursday)

Time: 5:00 – 7:00 pm

Venue: Art Tech Lab, RRST 4.35, Centennial Campus

Registration required

Abstract

Reframing is a multiplayer VR experience, in which participants collaboratively reimagine a curated series of 360-degree heritage photographs of Hong Kong using generative AI. The images span several sites where the tension between a place and its representation is subtle and embedded, to sites where it is explicit and top-down, like tourist infrastructure. In each site there is a representation of Hong Kong buildings or items visible with the actual object or building.

Participants move through these images together while modifying them through voice and text prompts, and their generative choices become the basis for the reflection session that follows.

Speaker

Dr. Marty Miller’s work focuses on collaborations with imaging communities across East Asia, examining how shared sites are engaged independently. Trained in ethnographic methods, he has conducted field work in the United States, Guatemala, and Sweden. He holds MAs in Visual Culture (Lund University) and Adult Learning (Linköping University), a PhD in Philosophy of Design (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Applied Computing and Interactive Media at the City University of Hong Kong.

For registration, please contact:
Tim Gruenewald at tgruene at hku.hk