An inhalation, an exhale. Creation is the air we draw.

When the world’s clamour grows too fierce, we choose to breathe deep, purging the impurity around us, reclaiming the artist’s raw, unblemished truth.

This year, we gather under the concept of hermetic. We seek to calcify the fluid, fleeting *now*, defying the drift of distance and the blurring of the eye. Suspended in a near-vacuum, we shed the world’s distortions, its heavy press, and its noise; distilling solitary awareness into a collective, breathless archive.

Media is, by nature, a vessel of time: amid the blur, the haze, the dusk of memory. We, creators, weave multi-dimensional light and space, ruminate on the unmapped possibilities of our craft. We reassemble the past from fragments of the unfamiliar; we stretch the boundaries of imagination within the confines of a framed reality.

School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, 18 Tat Hong Avenue, Kowloon