|
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.
As a leading research university with rich resources in both technological / scientific studies and liberal arts, 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.
|
