Hung Keung is an independent filmmaker and new media artist, and a full-time lecturer in the School of Design of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He completed a bachelor's degree in the Fine Arts Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1995 and two years later obtained a master's degree in film and video from the Central Saint Martin's College of Arts and Design in the U.K. In 1999 his film, I Love My Country's Sky, won both the "Best Short Film Award" at the prestigious BBC Short Film Festival in the U.K., and the "Best of the EMAF" award at the European Media Arts Festival in Germany. Hung Keung will make his first trip to the U.S. where he has been invited to present his latest interactive projects at the Center for New Media at the University of California, Berkeley, and to visit MIT's Media Laboratory.