Silke Schmickl is CHANEL Lead Curator for Moving Image at M+ Museum of Contemporary Visual Culture in Hong Kong. Before joining M+ in 2021, Silke was curator at the National Gallery Singapore and the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, a researcher at the German Art History Centre in Paris, and the co-founding director of Lowave, a Paris-based curatorial platform and publishing house with a catalogue of over 350 artist films that have been presented and distributed across an international network of contemporary art, film and academic institutions. She has initiated and directed numerous art projects dedicated to emerging artistic scenes in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, and has curated exhibitions in partnership with museums and biennials in Singapore, Paris, Guangzhou, Beirut and Düsseldorf. Since partnering with CHANEL in 2023, Silke and her M+ team have been able to bring to the public a rich archive of experimental film and video art from across Asia, which is featured at the annual Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival, a unique event showcasing Asia’s diverse moving image practices over the past six decades. Silke has recently curated three exhibitions at the National Gallery Singapore—“Minimalism: Light. Space. Object”; “Rirkrit Tiravanija: untitled 2018 (the infinite dimensions of smallness),” and “Haegue Yang: Forum for Drone Speech – Singapore Simulations.” Her exhibition, “Shanshui: Echoes and Signals,” is currently on show at M+.

Dr Linda Chiu-han Lai is an interdisciplinary artist, academic, and curator of contemporary media arts. Her work is grounded in a feminist sensibility that integrates critical theory, film theory, and visual and auto-ethnography. Her videographic and research-led creations explore art’s contribution to experimental historiography, with a dual focus on the history of everyday life and media archaeology. During her 25 years of full-time service at the School of Creative Media, Linda created the School’s first courses in generative art, sound art, and visual ethnography, as well as a dedicated laboratory series on videographic experimentation. She is founder of the new media art group Writing Machine Collective (2004- ), which explores computational thinking and contemporary art, as well as the artist-run initiative The Floating Projects (2015- ), which experiments with modes of sustainability in art-making. Her works have been exhibited at experimental film and video festivals in London (Documentary Festival), Barcelona (LOOP), Paris/Berlin (Rencontres Internationales), Jihlava (International Documentary Film Festival), Taipei (Women Make Waves, EXiT), Seoul (EXiS), Macao (EXiM), Kuala Lumpur (KLEX), and Hong Kong (HKEX), and elsewhere. Her mixed media installation is part of Shanghai Biennale’s permanent collection at Power Station of Art. In 2017, Linda was awarded Artist of the Year in Media Art by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. Her online video zine platform, D-Normal/V-Essay, is a Winner of Ars Electronica’s “State of the ART(ist) 2022” Award (Linz, Austria). Several Linda’s moving image works can be found in the M+ collection.