[spectre] Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition&Symposium

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Date: April 12, 2004 11:33:11 AM EDT
Subject: The First Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition and
Symposium opens May 28th in Beijing

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http://newmediabeijing.org


The Millennium Dialogue
- The First Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition and
Symposium

Preface

The new millennium has witnessed the growing vitality throughout the
world of new media art, an art mediated via digital means, often with
the internet as its platform. This emerging art, originating from an
increasingly technologically dependent society, not only challenges
traditional creative media, and ways of thinking, but also posits to
artists and cultural workers new questions concerning all realms of
contemporary life.

"Millennium Dialogue" aims at creating a constructive dialogue and
promoting a dynamic interaction between Chinese artists and global
trends in digital art education, production and theorization.

At the crest of rapid economic growth, China has enjoyed a parallel
advancement in the digital realm, deploying the latest development in
communication technologies and nurturing vast opportunities for both
artistic creation and social progress. Chinese art has inevitably, like
the rest of the world, come to face similar challenges of the digital
era.

Tsinghua University is commited to advocating the understanding of
humanity through cooperation and exchange, in promoting originality in
artistic creation and innovative thinking in the new millennium, and in
advancing excellence in education and research.

The ZKM | Center for Art and Media is a unique institutional model
comprising classical museum representation and artistic-technological
research and development in order to support new perspectives on future
technologies and modes of thought.

V2_ is an organization that concerns itself with research and
development in the field of art and media technology. V2_ concentrates
its efforts on the presentation of contemporary media art by organizing
exhibitions, lectures and workshops, masterclasses, symposiums and
performances. Through its activities V2_ makes a structural
contribution to the ongoing debate on art, technology and society.

GOAL

To establish a global, high profile platform for dialogue and
exchange with the most current trends in all fields of new media arts
production in order to advance and promote new media arts and new media
arts education.

AGENDA

The First International New Media Arts Exhibition and Symposium
will be staged in two phases. Phase one titled: "LEADING THE EDGE" will
mount the international academic exchange component of the project=20
which
is slated to open on May 28th of 2004, in which a number of
internationally acclaimed leading educational and research institutions
will join forces to participate in a fourteen day exhibition and a two
day symposium focusing on the academic and educational aspect of the=20
new
media arts in order to foster a constructive and creative dialogue in
research and education excellence. A compilation of speeches and essays
will be published subsequently.

Phase two will launch the international exhibition titled "IN THE LINE
OF FLIGHT" in May 2005 to coincide with the Beijing Biennial. Along=20
with
the curated exhibition, "IN THE LINE OF FLIGHT" will also invite new
media luminaries from world-renowned arts institutions and museums to
attend a two day symposium in Beijing. Among them, Center for Art and
Media (ZKM) of Germany, Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada), The Whitney
Museum of American Art (US), Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (US),
V2 (Holland), Ars Electronica (Austria), and Kiasma Museum of Modern Art
(Finland) will be participating. A catalogue will accompany the opening.

Both events will take place at the China Millennium Museum with over
10,000 square feet of state of the art facilities boasting the largest
panoramic LCD screen in Asia and wireless broadband connectivity.

PRESENTED BY

Tsinghua University (Beijing, China)
ZKM | Center for Art
and Media (Karlsruhe, Germany)
V2_ (Rotterdam, Holland)

In collaboration with:
China Millennium Museum (Beijing, China)
Parsons School of Design (New York, US)


SUPPORTED BY

Central Committee of Chinese Youth
China Art and Literary Association
Chinese Artists Association
Ministry of Culture, P.R. China
Ministry of Science, P.R. China
Ministry of Information Technologies, P.R. China
Ministry of Education, P.R. China