HKVAN is a registered non-profit association founded in 1996. Formed by a group of artists, editors and computer professionals, HKVAN is a media group dedicated to promote and implement media art education through research, courses, workshops and exchange activities. For the past few years, HKVAN has collaborated with various art bodies, non-profit organisations and schools to carry out various exhibitions, events, art education and community projects in different media forms. Trough such activities and programmes, HKVAN has also been able to build up a number of audience.

Missions

• HKVAN acts as an integrator, hub, catalyst and educator among artists, the youth and educators.
• Integrator: integrate visual with multimedia and media arts l Hub: provide a base and network for media and visual artists
• Catalyst: strive for the best of artistic excellence in visual arts
• Educator: promote and develop new media arts to achieve quality education

Objectives

• To make use of video and media as an applicable tool in different aspects
• To nurture artistic excellence through the development of new media arts
• To build up an interactive network and collective of media artists through Internet
• To help raising the level of critical appreciation of multimedia arts
• To act as a bridge among local, regional, international media artists
• To promote visual arts and establish and maintain social contacts with other educational and cultural institutions in Hong Kong and overseas

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