Museum Director of M+ Ms Suhanya Raffel shares about making M+ a physical and digital museum for Asia

Ms Suhanya Raffel, Museum Director of M+, delivered a distinguished lecture titled “Making M+: A physical and digital museum for Asia” on May 8, 2023. The Lecture took place in hybrid mode in the newly established Visualisation Research Centre of HKBU, providing the participants with a spectacular experience of a three-dimensional environment with the world's first 360° immersive LED Visualisation Cinema and the 180° iDome Cinema.
 
As one of the world’s largest museums of modern and contemporary visual culture, the impressive M+ building in the West Kowloon Cultural District was open to public as a major landmark in Hong Kong in 2021. With the M+ Facade embedded with LEDs which serves as the best platform for screening moving image works for new commissions, collections highlights and marketing messages, everyone from the West Kowloon waterfront promenade and Hong Kong Island can easily spot the museum.

In this lecture, Ms Raffel introduced the design, galleries, collections, exhibitions and learning and interpretation programmes of the Museum, with the emphasis on new media, digital art and visual culture. She expressed the Museum’s connection between international and mainland China with Hong Kong, not only with the artists and digital community but everyone in the general public.

Professor Johnny Poon, Associate Vice-President (Interdisciplinary Research) of HKBU, moderates the Q&A session after Ms Raffel's sharing.

About the speaker

 

Ms Suhanya Raffel joined M+ as Executive Director in 2016 and was appointed Museum Director in 2019. She has been leading the Museum’s mission, broadening its international reach and championing its deep connection with the local community. Ms Raffel is the ex-officio Member of the M+ Board, the President of CIMAM, the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (2023–2025), and has served on the CIMAM Board since 2016. She is also a trustee of the Geoffrey Bawa Trust and the Lunuganga Trust in Sri Lanka, and a member of Bizot group. She was awarded the title of Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 2020 and was the 2022 Sydney University Alumni Achievement Awardee for Cultural Contribution. From 2013 to 2016, Ms Raffel was formerly Deputy Director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney.

 

About Institute of Creativity

 

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