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Internationally renowned artist Cao Fei produced a work called Same Old, Brand New for SHKP that is being presented during the Art Basel exhibition in March and through April and May. Video games have long been a staple to popular and youth culture, and Cao Fei has taken inspiration from 1980s games for the Same Old, Brand New animation lighting up facades of International Commerce Centre (ICC). It will bring back memories of many viewers and give them a taste of Cao's whimsical interpretation. Noted composer Dickson Dee wrote a score for the show that makes the audio-visual extravaganza even more spectacular.

ICC is Hong Kong's tallest building and the facades are illuminated by changing images in white at night to make it more prominent on the Victoria Harbour skyline and give a boost to the city. Sun Hung Kai Real Estate Agency Retail Marketing and Customer Relations General Manager Cris Fung said: "We try to play a variety of works combing music and animation on ICC's five-million-square-foot outdoor screen to create art in harmony with an urban setting." Producing the ICC Light and Music Show requires a lot of efforts, with the production process from conceptual framework and sketches to production and testing usually taking more than two months.

Additionally, SHKP and the School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong collaborated on an Open Sky Campus initiative, which is meant to support art and cultural development and nurture talented individuals by encouraging students to show their creativity. SHKP and the media school will have another Open Sky Campus later this year, allowing more budding artists to put their work on public display in the territory.