The First Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition and Symposium opens May 28th in Beijing

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> From: z <[email protected]>
> Date: April 12, 2004 11:33:11 AM EDT
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: The First Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition and
> Symposium opens May 28th in Beijing
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> http://newmediabeijing.org
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> 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
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> 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
> 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
> 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
> 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.