Fostering Creativity, Innovation and Collaboration

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Arts Technology Laboratory

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OUR RESOURCES

Technologies for immersive narrative and creative collaboration

Explore the facilities and systems available through Arts Technology Lab. Each block introduces one technology and its principal creative or research use.

Virtual Reality

Immersive three-dimensional environments support teaching, simulation and experiential learning. Students can investigate complex subjects while developing practical, creative and collaborative skills.

Votanic XR

Extended reality combines virtual, augmented and mixed reality to connect physical and digital spaces. It supports interactive applications across education, entertainment, research and industry.

Virtual Production

Projected environments allow filmmakers to visualize and adjust digital settings during production. Real-time control of backgrounds expands creative possibilities and makes scene development more flexible.

PepperScrim Hologram

A large transparent metallic gauze creates the illusion of objects floating in space. The seven-metre surface supports front and rear projection for performances, exhibitions and large-scale holographic displays.

Looking Glass Hologram

A light-field display combines more than 45 perspectives to present three-dimensional content without conventional headsets. Sensors allow users to adjust framing and explore the displayed scene.

Looking Glass Avatar AI

Students can interact with holographic characters and control virtual environments through immersive interfaces. The system supports dynamic learning, virtual characters and experimental storytelling.

Projection Mapping

Digital imagery can be aligned with walls, objects and other three-dimensional surfaces. This transforms ordinary spaces into interactive visual environments for teaching, exhibitions and creative presentation.

4D Volumetric Scanning

Performances are captured as detailed movement in true three-dimensional space. The resulting volumetric material supports virtual environments, digital preservation and new approaches to immersive narrative.

3D Printing

Digital designs can be transformed into physical prototypes for iterative testing. The process develops spatial thinking, engineering awareness, creativity and practical problem-solving skills.

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AI TOOLS

AI resources available through ATL and HKU

Browse all 18 tools listed in ATL's resource guide. The cards retain the official tool names and representative images.

ATL RESOURCE DIRECTORY

Resources offered by Arts Technology Lab

Text Generation

Ollama

Text Generation

DeepSeek 7B

Image Generation

Comfy UI

Image Generation

Janus Pro 7B

Image Generation

Stable Diffusion

ATL RESOURCE DIRECTORY

GenAI Tools provided by HKU

Text Generation

HKU ChatGPT

Text Generation

Poe.com

Text Generation

Notion AI

Text Generation

Perplexity – AI Companion

Image Generation

HKU DALL·E

Image Generation

Canva: Text to Image

Image Generation

Stable Diffusion Online

Image Generation

Microsoft Designer

Presentation Design

Gamma

Presentation Design

Slidesgo

Presentation Design

SlidesAI.io

Audio Generation

Synthesia

Audio Generation

Natural Readers

Use generative AI responsibly, respect intellectual property and consider the capabilities and limitations of each tool.

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UNLEASHING CREATIVE COMPUTATION AT SCALE

ATL High Performance Computing

ATLHPC supports demanding, data-intensive workflows across arts, science, artificial intelligence and immersive media.

Theoretical peak performance: 29.234 TFLOPs
Compute node: ATL01
Processors: Dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8480C, 2.0 GHz, 56 cores each
Graphics: 9 NVIDIA RTX 6000 GPUs
CUDA cores: 4,608 per GPU
Tensor cores: 576 per GPU for AI acceleration
RT cores: 72 per GPU for real-time ray tracing
GPU memory: 24 GB GDDR6 per GPU
Memory bandwidth: 672 GB/s per GPU
System memory: 256 GB DDR4 RAM
Storage: 26 TB of high-speed local storage
Designed for: neural-network training, immersive XR rendering and large-scale dataset analysis
Enquiries: atlab[at]hku.hk

OUR LAB

Research Workspace

Our Research Workspace is designed for individual and collaborative research projects. Equipped with high-performance computers and specialized software, this space supports a variety of research needs, from digital humanities to computational arts.

1. What ATL is

The Arts Technology Lab (ATL) is a research, learning and creative facility at the University of Hong Kong. It provides specialised spaces, technologies and professional support for projects combining the arts and humanities with emerging technologies.

2. Its relationship with HKU and the Faculty of Arts

ATL is part of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Hong Kong. It supports the Faculty’s teaching, research and creative activities by connecting arts and humanities scholarship with technological innovation.

3. Its mission

ATL aims to foster creativity, innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration. It encourages students, researchers and staff to explore and apply advanced technologies in arts and humanities research and creative practice.

4. Its interdisciplinary focus

ATL works at the intersection of the arts, humanities and technology. It connects fields such as literature, history, linguistics, archaeology and visual culture with artificial intelligence, immersive media, data science and digital production.

5. Its main research areas

Its main research areas include artificial intelligence, digital humanities, extended reality, immersive storytelling, game development, digital heritage and historical reconstruction. It also supports research in language, culture, visual arts, filmmaking and computational methods.

6. How it supports students, researchers and staff

ATL provides facilities, equipment, high-performance computing, research funding, workshops and technical guidance. It also supports internships, student research, collaborative projects, exhibitions, competitions and opportunities to develop prototypes and creative outputs.