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 Code : Blue - Confluence of Currents | BEIJING | CHINA 3rd Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition and Symposium 2006 Dates: July 21 - July 31, 2006 Location: China Millennium Museum, Beijing, China INTRODUCTION 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 WorldÕs 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. THEME EXHIBITION - Code : Blue - Confluence of Currents In the early 1400s, 80 years before Columbus set foot on the Americas, Chinese fleets led by Zheng He, an eunuch admiral, had traversed the Indian Ocean reaching the Cape of Good Hope numerous times, establishing peaceful relationships with principalities and kingdoms along the voyage routes, propelling cultural understandings, and precipitating trading activities among many nations. The rise of China in the 21st century as a major economic player in the Pacific region and beyond revives the lost legacy of China as an oceangoing nation, unveils her creative merchandising spirit. China's seclusion from the outside world that resulted in an isolated "earth" civilization was but a temporary historical interruption, contrary to the perception of such being the intrinsic nature of Chinese culture. Artistic Directors (Lu Xiaobo, Zhang Ga Curators (Zhang Ga, Timothy Druckrey Read more: newmediabeijing.org  |
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