20th December 2025 – (Hong Kong) Hong Kong has welcomed a striking new cultural landmark to its skyline, as a vast geodesic dome dedicated to immersive art and technology opens on the Kai Tak waterfront. FutureScope, described as Hong Kong’s first large-scale art dome, offers visitors a multi-sensory journey that blends cutting-edge media art with Eastern philosophical ideas, setting a new benchmark for the city’s ArtTech ambitions.
Located at Dream by the Sea in Kai Tak Sports Park, just outside Kai Tak Stadium Gate B and overlooking Victoria Harbour, FutureScope opened its doors on 19th December 2025. The dome, with a diameter of 12 metres, functions as a hemispheric theatre that surrounds audiences with 360-degree projections and sound, creating an enveloping environment in which digital art, sound design and visitor interaction converge.
The project is the brainchild of Hong Kong media artist Chris Cheung (h0nh1m), recently recognised as “Artist of the Year (Media Arts)” at the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards. Under his FutureTense platform, FutureScope is intended as a long-term venue for immersive art, with a season of exhibitions and performances programmed from December 2025 through to April 2026. Curators and artists aim to explore how technology can deepen human connection with art, the natural world and the wider cosmos, while positioning Hong Kong as a leading regional hub for ArtTech.
Cheung describes the experience inside the dome as a dialogue between man-made and natural universes. Visitors, he says, step into a space where digital constellations of light and sound envelop them overhead, before emerging again to confront the real sky and harbour outside. That deliberate contrast is designed to prompt reflection on the relationship between virtual creation and the physical environment, and on how new media can complement rather than replace traditional forms of seeing and feeling.
FutureScope’s opening programme centres on Perpetual Records, an exhibition and live performance series running from 19 December 2025 to 4 January 2026. Conceived by Cheung’s studio XCEPT in collaboration with acclaimed Japanese new media artist Daito Manabe, the work employs advanced facial and emotional recognition systems to convert visitors’ features and expressions into shifting geometric patterns within a vast fractal universe projected across the dome.
The concept draws inspiration from the Akashic Records – the esoteric notion of a cosmic compendium containing every event and experience in existence. In the installation, that mystical archive becomes a living, visual database driven by real-time inputs from the audience. Each visitor’s presence influences the artwork’s evolution, turning the exhibition into a collective, ever-changing record of shared participation.
Sound plays an equal role in shaping the experience. Manabe has devised an adaptive sonic environment in which white noise textures and electronic tones respond to changes in facial expression and mood data. The result is a constantly shifting audio-visual landscape that mirrors the emotional climate of the space at any given moment, reinforcing the sense that the visitors themselves are co-authors of the work.
From 2 to 4 January 2026, Perpetual Records will be further extended through a series of ticketed live performances. Guided by Cheung, these sessions will transform the dome into a choreographed archive of synchronised light and sound, structured into five distinct scenes. Here, facial recognition technology is used dynamically to alter the installation in real time, ensuring that each 30-minute performance is unique to the people present.
Access to the main public exhibition is free of charge, although pre-registration is required. Complimentary tickets can be reserved via KKDay, with timed entry to manage capacity. Opening hours for the exhibition are 2pm to 8pm from Monday to Thursday, 2pm to 10pm on Fridays, and 11am to 10pm on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. FutureScope will be closed on 31 December 2025 and 1 January 2026. Tickets for the special live performances from 2 to 4 January are priced at HK$90 for standard admission and HK$60 for concession, with four 30-minute sessions scheduled each day and available for purchase through KKDay.
FutureScope is conceived not as a one-off attraction but as a sustained programme. Following Perpetual Records, the dome will host two further major ArtTech experiences in early 2026: Resonance Aura and Waving Script. Each project brings together artists from different traditions to explore how sound, movement and digital media can reinterpret long-standing cultural practices.
In February 2026, media art collective XCEED will present Resonance Aura in collaboration with experimental vocalist Sainkho Namtchylak, renowned for her Tuvan throat singing. The work focuses on vibration, resonance and deep listening, with special live performances in which Namtchylak’s voice creates a meditative sound field that envelops the audience. Within the dome’s acoustically tailored space, her vocal techniques are amplified and transformed, inviting visitors into a contemplative experience that foregrounds the physicality of sound.
From March to April 2026, Cheung will lead Waving Script alongside Chinese calligrapher Xu Jing and Cantonese opera performer Leung Fei-tung. The piece seeks to reimagine calligraphy through motion capture and digital projection, extending ink and brush into animated forms that respond to live performance. Xu’s pioneering “Wine Calligraphy” and Leung’s operatic gestures are translated into flowing strokes of light across the dome, framing traditional aesthetics in a contemporary, technologically mediated context.
Throughout the season, FutureScope will offer a mix of free exhibitions, ticketed performances, special screenings and interactive workshops. The intention is to make media art approachable for a broad public, from casual visitors encountering immersive art for the first time to seasoned cultural audiences looking for new forms of engagement. Educational and participatory elements will provide additional context, enabling audiences to understand the creative and technical processes behind the works and to reflect on the broader questions they raise.
Organisers see the project as part of a wider effort to embed innovation in Hong Kong’s cultural offerings. By situating a high-specification dome on a prominent waterfront site, the city gains an emblem of its aspirations to merge global digital culture with local artistic voices. Collaborations with internationally recognised figures such as Daito Manabe and Sainkho Namtchylak, alongside home-grown talents like Cheung, XCEPT, XCEED and Leung Fei-tung, underscore a commitment to cross-border exchange while maintaining a distinctly regional perspective.
The choice of Kai Tak is itself significant. Once the site of the city’s famous airport and now a symbol of urban transformation, the area has been steadily evolving into a mixed-use hub for sport, leisure and culture. FutureScope adds a contemporary artistic dimension to this redevelopment, using the harbour backdrop as a dramatic counterpoint to the digitally generated horizons inside the dome. For visitors, the juxtaposition of historical memory, urban renewal and futuristic media art offers a layered, distinctly Hong Kong experience.
Open daily, with extended weekend hours and clearly signposted blackout dates on its website, FutureScope aims to become a regular fixture on the city’s cultural calendar rather than a temporary novelty. As additional exhibitions and collaborations are announced, the dome is expected to host an evolving roster of works that reflect ongoing developments in media art and immersive technology.
Further details, including any schedule changes, ticketing updates and future programme announcements, are available via the project’s official channels: the website futurescope.futuretense.hk, Instagram account @futurescope.dome and Facebook page “FutureScope”. With its combination of free public access, curated performances and an ambitious line-up of international and local artists, FutureScope is poised to establish itself as one of Hong Kong’s most distinctive new cultural destinations.
