Lazarus Chan (b. 1996) received his bachelor’s degree from the School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong and his higher diploma from the Hong Kong Art...
Lazarus Chan (b. 1996) received his bachelor’s degree from the School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong and his higher diploma from the Hong Kong Art School. In 2021, he was selected as an outstanding student by Targeted Taught Postgraduate Programmes Fellowships Scheme to pursue postgraduate programmes at the Academy of Visual Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University. He is a new media artist who explores human experience, including life & death, consciousness and time. He specializes in multifaceted mediums, such as soundscape, electronics, data visualization and generative art. "Inspired by infection simulation during the pandemic, Petri.Vista is a complex system that simulates human phenomena with autonomous agents. When they interact with each other, digital creatures are triggered by different events and their memories, leading to an aerial view of the cityscape inside a digital petri dish.