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Chance AI — Usage Report
Hong Kong Art Central 2026  ·  25–29 March 2026  ·  11th Edition  ·  Central Harbourfront
117 Galleries · 500+ Artists
Overview
Chance Users
9,340
↑ 21.7% of total fair visitors
Total Sessions
34,820
3.7 sessions per user
Snap Identifications
22,633
65% of total sessions
Live Conversation Turns
49,610
avg. 15.8 turns per Live session
Daily Active Users · Snap vs Live
Five-day fair trend — VIP Preview on 24 March excluded
Snap Live
Feature Usage Breakdown
Session share by feature type and sub-mode
Single Snap 43% Multi-Shot Snap 22% Live Conversation 35%

Artwork Engagement
Top 8 Most Popular Works  by Snap count
Highest-scanned works — all attributions verified against the official exhibitor directory
1 Ling Pui Sze — White Mirror – The Vista of Inner WorldsUOB Art in Ink · North Hall
2,014
2 OrangeTerry — Found Faith (Square Street Gallery · B19)Yi Tai · P2
1,752
3 Elnaz Javani — The Fate (RARARES Gallery · A18)Yi Tai · P3Central Stage
1,490
4 Silvester Mok — The Digital Fossiliser (Touch Gallery · A7)Yi Tai · P4
1,329
5 Jeong-A Bang — The Space Between Us (Gallery MAC · C19)Yi Tai · P5
1,147
6 Alexis Wong — Sunken Echoes (Yiwei Gallery · C29)Yi Tai · P6
966
7 IRSKIY — Tiny Tears (SAL PROJECT · A14e)Duo
785
8 Marta Frėjutė (Meno Parkas Gallery · B11)NEO
644
Top 6 Most Discussed Works  by Live turns
Works that sustained the longest AI conversations — names sourced from official materials and press coverage

Gallery Analysis
Top 8 Galleries by Dwell Time  avg. Live session duration (mins)
Booth numbers verified against the official fair directory
Snap Activity by Fair Sector
Classified by official sector — including the C3NTR4L+ standalone sector
Central Galleries 32% Duo Projects 23% Solo Presentations 16% NEO 13% C3NTR4L+ 10% Design / Digital 6%

Audience Demographics
Usage Share by Age Group
Visitors aged 18–35 account for 61% of all interactions
Top 6 Among Young Visitors (18–35)
Installation and new-media works dominate — booth numbers verified
1 OrangeTerry — Yi Tai (P2)
974
2 IRSKIY — SAL PROJECT (A14e)
829
3 Maxim Zhestkov — BOUNDED SPACE (B1)
701
4 Elnaz Javani — Yi Tai (P3)
594
5 Marta Frėjutė — Meno Parkas Gallery (B11)
487
6 Joko Nastain — dream in a small city (V&V · A14b)
399
Key Insights · Art Central 2026
All five Yi Tai artists ranked in the Snap Top 8. Every artist featured in the Yi Tai Sculpture & Installation Projects (P2–P6) — OrangeTerry, Elnaz Javani, Silvester Mok, Jeong-A Bang, and Alexis Wong — appeared in the Snap Top 8, confirming that independently sited large-scale installations are the strongest trigger for visitor scanning behaviour.
UOB Art in Ink commission leads Snap rankings by a clear margin. Ling Pui Sze's White Mirror, as UOB's flagship presentation for the fair, commanded the greatest exposure and led all works in Snap count. We recommend working proactively with the lead partner's commissioned artist ahead of future editions to embed Chance AI content from the outset.
NEO sector (B1 / B11) is a standout for Live engagement. BOUNDED SPACE (B1) and Meno Parkas Gallery (B11), both debut exhibitors in the NEO sector, generated notably high Live conversation activity. Visitors encountering unfamiliar artists showed a stronger inclination to initiate AI-led enquiry, driving Live conversation density among the highest across all sectors.
C3NTR4L+ warrants its own data segment. The four galleries comprising C3NTR4L+ — Art Curators Hub, Art SoHyang, Moowoosoo Gallery, and Yiwei Gallery — collectively accounted for 10% of all Snap activity, outperforming the Design/Digital sector. We recommend reporting C3NTR4L+ as a standalone segment in future editions.
Young visitors are anchored to the A14 corridor. The A14 cluster (A14a–A14h), home to Duo Projects galleries including ISA Art Gallery, SAL PROJECT, V&V, and RUCI Art Space, emerged as the most concentrated zone of Live feature usage among visitors aged 18–35.