Technology has always changed the way art is made. Portable paint tubes helped the Impressionists head outdoors; advances in metallurgy made ancient bronze masterpieces possible.
With the advent of the camera, video, computers, and digital production, artists discovered new ways to incorporate time and movement into their work. Moving image has since become one of contemporary art’s most flexible forms, allowing artists to reframe the way we perceive the world.
This summer, Art Intelligence Global is presenting Glitched, a group exhibition in Hong Kong featuring five moving-image works on loan from the Akeroyd Collection. Screened in rotation on weekdays at AIG’s headquarters, the exhibition looks at how artists use glitches, looping, erasure, and distortion to create conceptual ruptures – probing questions of desire, vulnerability, and human identity.
Image courtesy of the artist
Monday
Paul Pfeiffer, Vs. (Fight of the Century)
2023, Edition of 5 | Video (colour), 1 minute 34 seconds
Pfeiffer digitally erases Floyd Mayweather Jr. from footage of his legendary 2015 boxing match against Manny Pacquiao, who is left to convulse and twitch under an invisible opponent’s blows. This surgical glitch transforms a sporting spectacle into an uncanny meditation on violence, race, voyeurism, and the fragility of the body.
Image courtesy of the artist and Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, London
Tuesday
Joan Jonas, Wolf Lights
2004 - 2005, Edition of 5 + 2 Aps | Colour video, 2 minutes 53 seconds, continuous loop
Jonas’s double-layered video depicts a masked wolf-woman prowling through an array of flickering Las Vegas neon signs. By transforming commercial signage into an all-consuming, saturated landscape that isolates and overwhelms its sole inhabitant, Jonas probes capitalist development and the cultural permeation of its iconography.
Image courtesy the artist, James Mackay and Amanda Wilkinson, London
Wednesday
Derek Jarman, Electric Fairy
1971, Edition of 5 + 1 AP | 16mm, 6 minutes 30 seconds
In this early moving image work – a recovered Super 8mm film, digitized by James Mackay – a near-nude protagonist toys with and eventually eats a live caterpillar. Through close-cropping, a sensual atmosphere, and symbolic props, Jarman evokes an erotic undercurrent that explores desire and bodily transformation.
© Diego Marcon. Courtesy the Artist and Sadie Coles HQ, London. Produced by Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, thanks to PAC2021 – Piano per l’Arte Contemporanea. Promoted by Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea del Ministero della Cultura
Thursday
Diego Marcon, Dolle
2023, Edition of 5 | Digital video transferred from 35mm film, CGI animation, colour, sound, 29 minutes 32 seconds, looped
In Dolle, animatronic moles perform an endless, Sisyphean arithmetic ritual on a looping 35mm film. Through a process of disorienting repetition, Marcon traps his audience in an analogue of existential absurdity disguised as a family portrait.
© Alex Da Corte. Courtesy the Artist and Sadie Coles HQ, London
Friday
Alex Da Corte, Slow Graffiti
2017, Edition of 5 + 2 APs | Colour video with sound, 13 minutes
In this shot-for-shot remake of Jørgen Leth’s 1968 short film The Perfect Human, Da Corte provocatively undermines the original’s presentation of a heteronormative ideal. Using Frankenstein prosthetics, he recasts himself as a terrifying, grotesque figure, complicating the structural assumptions that underpin Leth’s original footage.
© Alex Da Corte. Courtesy the Artist and Sadie Coles HQ, London
Glitched | Selected Works from the Akeroyd Collection
Date: 16 July - 28 August 2026
Venue: Art Intelligence Global
Address: Suite A, 1st Floor, TS Tower, 43 Heung Yip Road, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong
Art Intelligence Global
Founded in 2021 by art market veterans Yuki Terase and Amy Cappellazzo, Art Intelligence Global is an international art advisory firm offering an unrivaled breadth of expertise driven by a holistic understanding of every corner of the market.
With dual headquarters in New York and Hong Kong, the firm advises top multi-national collecting families, estates, and institutions around the world, delivering bespoke art advisory services to a range of clients on a global scale.
Akeroyd Collection
Launched in 2023 by Hong Kong-based British collector and philanthropist Shane Akeroyd, the Akeroyd Collection is one of the world’s most significant repositories of moving image. By making over 270 time-based works publicly accessible, the collection redefines private ownership as a shared public resource for curators, writers, and wider audiences.
Akeroyd is a leading global contemporary art patron and philanthropist. He serves on the M+ Acquisitions Committee and boards and councils of international institutions including M+, Para Site, Artist’s Space and Asia Art Archive. His philanthropy includes funding a Tate acquisition fund and the British Pavilion’s Associate Curator role at the Venice Biennale through 2030.