Hi all! Jon and I need to hire an part time assistant to help us on all projects and tasks. We have been thinking about this a while now. Because we travel a lot so you will need to work remotely on your own. We will try to meet regularly, but the most part of the communication will be through emails and (internet) phone calls. So you have control of your time.

You will need to know Chinese and English (at least write and read). But don’t worry if you don’t have perfect language skill, and you can get better from this job.

We need you to have approximately 8-10 hours per week dedicate to this work. It will include （but not limit to):
1. Maintain websites
2. Organize project material and research on project topics.
3. Research, manage and connect with art production service such as fabrication, printing, art space rental, film crew etc.
4. Facilitate travel plan, buying tickets etc.
5. Proof read and translate texts
6. Write Blog Posts
…

Please email me (lu@deerfang.org) with your resume if you are interested. Thank you!

明天我们影视班和新媒体班的两个课提早到早上8：30－10：30在传设楼小礼堂上。我请来了纽约的Ellen Zweig来为我们讲关于她的一些录像作品和装置项目。其他不是这两个班的同学如有兴趣也欢迎来参加讲座。Ellen Zweig的网站。明天见！

星期四晚上我们顺利举行了黄埔村录像计划放映活动。这个项目从录像课题的研究，到拍摄，后期制作，到活动的组织和放映对我们07班的同学来说都是一个考验。而且时间很短，从第一次进村到放映不过两周时间。但是我的一向宗旨是不要太多顾虑，做了再说，成败不是唯一标准。这个项目是在黄埔村这样一个现实背景下展开的，而且又在村里举行放映活动，所以每个参与项目的人都承担着一定的社会责任，也就是大家做的并不仅仅是一个单纯而无风险的课堂作业。这种责任感是我希望参与项目的同学们能在黄埔村计划中体会到的最重要的一点。

尽管我们没有做很全面的活动宣传，仅仅是活动前一天才在村里和大学里贴了海报，但是当晚有不少村民，穿着拖鞋穿着睡衣来看录像，还有古港纪念馆的人也来了。黄埔村的本地居民和管理村子的官方人员有一定的隔阂。以当天的情况看，因为我们学生的立场是第三方的中立者，所以把两方的人都吸引来了。从不同的立场，他们都对这种放映方式和录像的内容表现了莫大的兴趣。我想这次活动应该是一个启示，希望村民和官方会开始寻求一种合作和对话的方式。

感谢所有中大数媒07级的同学在那么短时间内完成了这批录像作品，所有参加筹备和组织放映活动的中坚份子。当然还要感谢其他很多人，包括无象工作室的王铬，胡氏宗祠的胡老伯和所有来参加活动的观众们。下面是我拍的一些照片。如果你有照片的话请在博客上发发帖子，和我们共享一下。

我们的观众有校服一族

老人小孩一族

我最喜欢的，睡衣一族

黄埔古港粤海第一关纪念馆的负责人。还有我们中大07数媒的同学们也是黄埔村录像的作者们。 (more…)

Students in my new media class have done an installation project that stirred up some discussion about news media and free speech in China. This installation uses all computers in a computer lab to play news from all over the world covering 3.14 Tibet riot. These news media include CCTV, CNN, BBC, and channels from India and Germany. Viewers can choose to watch these different versions of Tibet riot news on different computers. Most of these video clips were downloaded online and of course, they tell different versions of “truths”. Outside the classroom, students who created this project interviewed people about their opinion on these report and the event.

First of all I am impressed by the courage and ambitious of the students on the project. When we were discussing the project planning in class, we have talked about which international event they should picked to make this project. And I didn’t expect them to involve in such timely and sensitive topic.

In class to lead the discussion before it collapses into nationalism, I said this project was not about the political situation of Tibet. It can be any event that these news channels were covering (like 911 as this student group proposed before.) The most importantly is that it provide the possibility of having multiple view points and even conflicting ones to exist simultaneously. We (Chinese) are so used to the fact that our media is censored and controlled. To the point that we have accepted this fact and feel it’s a logical thing to do for everyone and our nation. What’s happening even is that people are self-censoring and self-policing on media and speech without government.

We all grown up in the media censored environment, including me. I still remember watching Hongkong news at home during dinner hour when I was a kid. Every once in a while, the 6:30 news would disappear and went into noise for a few minutes. And my parents and I would just switch to other channels and keep having dinner. Now it’s pretty much the same with those sensitive news except the blanks were filled in with commercials. So the interruption is less apparent. Minds of lot of Chinese citizen has been shaped in the age of media controlled. So even if there is freedom laying in front of us we won’t know what to do with it, because we have never used this tool before.

I believe in people should have the choice on receiving information from different media. There is no ultimate truth but there are different stand points. I believe people have and should have their own judgments. There were students expressed anger after seeing western coverage on Tibet. That’s why I raised the question in the title: How many opinions can we listen before We get mad?

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这个星期四晚上7点正，黄埔村录像计划放映活动。大家都来吧！叫上你的朋友，包括男朋友和女朋友们。我会在那天下午5：30左右从课室(大学城）出发，想和我一起去的人可以在课室找上我。可以提早一点到村里，先吃黄埔村的艇仔粥、咸骨粥、煲仔饭。这两天录像班的同学都在加紧后期制作刚刚拍摄完的黄埔村录像，期待那天在祠堂里的放映。