Artist, curator and researcher Ellen Pau has spent her life championing video artists in Asia, and is an influential force in the early development of Hong Kong’s arts scene. She founded the Microwave International New Media Arts Festival, an annual event that consists of exhibitions, conferences, seminars and workshops, bringing art experiences to Hong Kong, in 1996. She is also behind Videotage, Hong Kong’s oldest video artist collective and earliest archive for media art, which she established in 1986.
Before her full-time career in the arts, she worked as a radiographer and mammographer at Queen Mary Hospital, and has a degree in diagnostic radiography from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU).
