BODW (Business of Design Week) 2016 which is an Asian’s leading design event by Hong Kong Design Center. This year’s slogan is ‘ChicagoMade’ and we are honoured to have interview with several speakers who gave their presentation there. These speakers are Artist Janet Echelman, Museum co-Director Alice Black, with Eric Schuldenfrei and Marisa Yu, who are both Architect and moderator of BODW.

First we present part 1 of these series of interview with Janet Echelman who is a renowned international artist who make large scale sculptures and transform them with wind and light. Following are the interview details :

– Reveal the material used and magic behind the installation

– How to interact with culture and people

– Where do ideas of artwork come from

– Relation between Art, Technology and Culture

– Janet’s Dream and challenge

– How to name a sculpture

– Art making strategy

– Advice to young artist

BODW（設計營商周）2016，是香港設計中心所舉辦的年度亞洲設計界盛事。今年的口號是“芝加哥製造”，我們很榮幸能夠專訪其中幾位講者。這些演講者是藝術家Janet Echelman，博物館總監Alice Black。與Eric Schuldenfrei和Marisa Yu，他們都是建築師和今屆BODW的主持人。

首先，我們介紹這系列專訪的藝術家Janet Echelman，她是一個專做大規模雕塑的著名的國際藝術家，她更利用風和光來驅動她的作品。以下是專訪精彩內容：

– 揭示作品所使用的材料和背後的魔法

– 作品如何與文化和人進行互動

– 藝術品的想法來自哪裡

– 藝術，科學，文化之間的關係

– 藝術家的夢想和挑戰

– 如何命名一個雕塑

– 藝術製作策略

– 給年輕藝術家的建議

Janet Echelman is an artist who defies categorization. Her work intersects across the
boundaries of Sculpture, Architecture, Urban Design and Planning, Material Science,
Structural and Aeronautical Engineering, and Computer Science. She creates
experiential sculpture at the scale of buildings that transform with wind and light. The art
shifts from being an object to look at, to a living environment you can get lost in.
Recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, Harvard Loeb Fellowship, Aspen Institute
Henry Crown Fellowship, and Fulbright Lectureship, Echelman was named an
Architectural Digest Innovator for “changing the very essence of urban spaces”. Her TED
talk “Taking Imagination Seriously” has been translated into 34 languages with more
than one million views.
In 1987, she studied at Hong Kong University on a Rotary International Fellowship after
graduating from Harvard College. She lived in a Balinese village for 5 years, then
completed separate graduate programs in Painting and in Psychology. This year she
received an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Tufts University.
Hong Kong was the city of her first solo museum exhibition, at the Fung Ping Shan
Museum in 1990

Website
Janet Echelman : www.echelman.com
BODW : www.bodw.com

Janet Echelman 是一名突破界限的藝術家，其作品跨越多個範疇，包括雕塑、建築、都市
設計及規劃、材料科學、結構及航空工程，以及電腦科學等。Echelman 構建的體驗式雕塑
作品，仿如建築物般大小，會隨著風與光而轉變。她的藝術品既可是一件可供觀賞的雕塑
作品，亦可是一個讓人迷失於當中的環境。
Echelman 獲得古根漢獎（Guggenheim Fellowship）、哈佛洛布獎學金（Harvard Loeb
Fellowship）、美國阿斯本研究所亨利克朗院士奬（Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellowship）
以及富布賴特教師獎（Fulbright Lectureship）。Echelman 更被喻為「改變都市空間本質」的
建築創新者（Architectural Digest Innovator）。她的TED演講《Taking Imagination Seriously》已
被翻譯成34種語言，瀏覽人次多達100萬。
1987年，於哈佛書院畢業後，Echelman以扶輪國際獎學金於香港大學修讀。她曾於峇里島

腦作大業 172 – Artist Interview 藝術家專訪 Janet Echelman

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腦作大業 172 – Artist Interview 藝術家專訪 Janet Echelman