An Overview of New Media Art Exhibitions in China (2017–2022)

Fan, Huan; Bowen, Jonathan P.

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An Overview of New Media Art Exhibitions in China (2017–2022)

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Author(s): Huan Fan , Jonathan P. Bowen

Publication date (Print): July 2023

Conference name: Proceedings of EVA London 2023 (EVA 2023)

Conference theme: Since 1990, the EVA London Conference has established itself as one of the United Kingdom’s most innovative and interdisciplinary conferences in the field of digital visualisation. The papers and abstracts in this volume cover areas such as the arts, culture, heritage, museums, music, performance, visual art, and visualisation, as well as related interdisciplinary areas, in combination with technology. The latest research and work by early career researchers, established scholars, practitioners, research students, and visual artists, can be found in this volume, published in full colour.

Conference date: 10–14 July 2023

Keywords: Chinese art, Contemporary art, Digital culture, New media art

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The new media art exhibition, where artists utilise scientific and technological materials to create artworks as a fashion trend, has been sprouting in China’s mainland key central cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Chengdu, in the past six years. This paper divides developments into two different periods, before and after Covid-19 happened, to analyse the fluctuation of people participating in or visiting art exhibitions. During the pandemic, some of the shows supported by government sponsorship continued to attract attention, like the 2021 Chengdu Biennale, where nearly half of the artworks included new-tech features. Two aspects should be clarified: one is how to identify Chinese ‘new media art’; the other is why the development of the art scene occurs very quickly in China.

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[0002]London South Bank University

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2023.24

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Conference date: 10–14 July 2023

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

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[1] J. P. Bowen and H. Fan (2022) The Chengdu Biennale and Wikipedia art information. In Bowenet al. (2022), pp. 103–110, DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2022.23.

[2] J. P. Bowen and T. Giannini (2021) Digitality: A reality check. In Weinelet al. (2021), pp. 12–19. DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.3.

[3] J. P. Bowen, J. Weinel, A. Borda, and G. Diprose (eds.) (2022) EVA London 2022: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts. BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC). ScienceOpen. DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2022.0.

[4] Designboom (2017) teamLab magnifies the lifecycle of plants with 'Living Digital Forest' installation in Beijing. Designboom. http://www.designboom.com/art/teamlab-flower-forest-pace-gallery-beijing-10-05-2017/

[5] H. Fan (2019) The new “Theatricality” in perform-ance and media arts. In Weinelet al. (2019), pp. 274–275. DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.52.

[6] H. Fan (2020) The spectator fulfilling the concept of liveness. In Weinelet al. (2020), pp. 363–364. DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2020.65.

[7] T. Giannini and J. P. Bowen (eds.) (2019) Museums and Digital Culture: New Perspectives and Research. Springer, Series on Cultural Computing. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-97457-6.

[8] T. Giannini and J. P. Bowen (2022a) Museums and digital culture: From reality to digitality in the age of COVID-19. Heritage, 5 (1), 192–214. DOI: 10.3390/heritage5010011.

[9] T. Giannini and J. P. Bowen (2022b) Computational culture: Transforming archives practice and education for a post-Covid world. ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 15 (3), 1–18. DOI: 10.1145/3493342.

[10] J. Li and J. P. Bowen (2022) Female self-presentation through online dating applications. In Bowenet al. (2022), pp. 111–118, DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2022.23.

[11] I. Narea (2017) TeamLab magnifies the lifecycle of plants with ‘living digital forest' installation in Beijing. Designboom, 5 October 2017. URL: http://www.designboom.com/art/teamlab-flower-forest-pace-gallery-beijing-10-05-2017/

[12] Y. H. Qiu (2018) ????? [Expensive Bloom]. FX361.com, 6 July 2018. URL: http://www.fx361.com/page/2018/0706/3760815.shtml

[13] Rauschenberg (1986) Sino-Trolley / ROCI CHINA. Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, USA. http://www.rauschenbergfoundation.org/art/artwork/sino-trolley-roci-china

[14] Rauschenberg (2022) Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange (ROCI). Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, USA. http://www.rauschenbergfoundation.org/art/art-context/roci

[15] X. J. Wang (2008) Transcendence and Regression: Post-85 New Wave Art. In G. Minglu and Y. Zhou (eds.), The '85 Movement: The Enlightenment of Chinese Avant-Garde, pp.329–330. Guilin: Guangxi Normal University Press.

[16] J. Weinel, J. P. Bowen, A. Borda, and G. Diprose (eds.) (2021) EVA London 2021: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts. BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC). ScienceOpen. DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.0.

[17] J. Weinel, J. P. Bowen, G. Diprose, and N. Lambert (eds.) (2019) EVA London 2019: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts. BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing. ScienceOpen. DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.0.

[18] J. Weinel, J. P. Bowen, G. Diprose, and N. Lambert (eds.) (2020) EVA London 2020: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts. BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing. ScienceOpen. DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2020.0.

[19] Y. Zhang (2005) 新媒体艺术 [New Media Art]. Science Press.

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