ZweixZwei Studio Ltd. is a Hong Kong-based lab specialising in the creative use of emerging technologies. The studio explores visual storytelling by digitalising cultural heritage such as close-range photogrammetry and Generative AI film tools. Our mission is to showcase the transformative power of these technologies through innovative intermedia workshops, festivals, and installations to foster inspiration, engagement, and collaboration. The studio partners with artists, community-based NGOs and urban planners to act on visual provocations to drive tangible change.
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Founder
Dr. Nikolas Ettel is an intermedia researcher and adjunct assistant professor in HKU’s Division of Landscape Architecture where he coordinates the Faculty Interdisciplinary Courses and teaches the Common Core Course 24 Frames: Communicating Ideas through Film. His scientific work analyses seemingly useless urban remnants, which is shared in a TEDx talk (HKU, 2021), and has been exhibited and published internationally including Dezeen, South China Morning Post, Der Standard, et.al. Nik’s latest exhibition Alleys in Wonderland (PMQ, 2019 + City Gallery, 2021), a Design Trust Seed Grant awarded VR-project about the Greater Bay Area’s creative back alley occupations was displayed at the Hong Kong Pavilion for the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale.
Born in Vienna, he received his BArch from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, a Master of Arts (Architectural History) from The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, and a Doctor of Technical Sciences for his dissertation “The Jacksons Project: An Intermedia Framework to Analyse Trivial Yet Telling Urban Remnants in Hong Kong’s High-Density Built Environment” from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. He holds an ir.Arch from The Austrian Chamber of Commerce, and has practiced in architectural offices in Vienna and Munich – involved in projects ranging from multi-scale data centres to an underground metro station. Since 2018, he is editorial board member of ADATO, a Luxembourg based art and architecture magazine; Fellow of Advance Higher Education, and the director of an annual Students’ Short Film Festival at Tai Kwun.
#creativeindustries #emergingtechnologies
#digitalisation #culturalheritage
#shortfilms
#Photogrammetry
#LiDAR
#GenAI
Founder
Dr. Nikolas Ettel is an intermedia researcher and adjunct assistant professor in HKU’s Division of Landscape Architecture where he coordinates the Faculty Interdisciplinary Courses and teaches the Common Core Course 24 Frames: Communicating Ideas through Film. His scientific work analyses seemingly useless urban remnants, which is shared in a TEDx talk (HKU, 2021), and has been exhibited and published internationally including Dezeen, South China Morning Post, Der Standard, et.al. Nik’s latest exhibition Alleys in Wonderland (PMQ, 2019 + City Gallery, 2021), a Design Trust Seed Grant awarded VR-project about the Greater Bay Area’s creative back alley occupations was displayed at the Hong Kong Pavilion for the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale.
Born in Vienna, he received his BArch from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, a Master of Arts (Architectural History) from The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, and a Doctor of Technical Sciences for his dissertation “The Jacksons Project: An Intermedia Framework to Analyse Trivial Yet Telling Urban Remnants in Hong Kong’s High-Density Built Environment” from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. He holds an ir.Arch from The Austrian Chamber of Commerce, and has practiced in architectural offices in Vienna and Munich – involved in projects ranging from multi-scale data centres to an underground metro station. Since 2018, he is editorial board member of ADATO, a Luxembourg based art and architecture magazine; Fellow of Advance Higher Education, and the director of an annual Students’ Short Film Festival at Tai Kwun.