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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. Under the auspices of Millennium Dialogue, the First
and Second Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition and Symposium
successfully mounted two ground-breaking exhibitions and symposia in
2004 and 2005 respectively at the China Millennium Museum in Beijing.
Enlisting a number of key players in the realm of media art throughout
the world as partners, "Millennium Dialogue" aims at establishing a
global, constructive platform for dialogue and exchange with the most
current discourse in new media arts production and theorization to
advance and promote digital arts and education in China.
At the helm of the project are three prominent institutions, with
Tsinghua University as host, one of the most acclaimed research and
educational institutions of China, joined by ZKM | Center for Art and
Media of Karlsruhe, Germany, the World¡¯s largest media arts center, and
V2_Institute for the Unstable Media of Rotterdam, the Dutch Electronic
Arts Festival maker.
With the repercussion of Millennium Dialogue 2004 and 2005 still
undulating, 2006 sees another stellar gathering of the international new
media art community in Beijing. The Third Beijing International New
Media Arts Exhibition and Symposium, marking the inauguration of the
newly established, spectacular Beijing Creative Industries Zone, takes
to the Chinese capital another highly charged, thought provoking new
media art exhibition revolving on the central theme Code:Blue, and a
symposium which furthers the discourse of new media art practice and
education with global perspective.
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