Asia Art Forum- lectures starting October

Arthub is delighted to support a new educational initiative, Asia Art Forum- a dynamic series of lectures, featuring respected members of the Chinese contemporary art world discussing the emergence and historical development of Chinese contemporary art and its cultural institutions, as well as issues pertaining to the collection and market of Chinese art.

 For the first time, this dynamic and fast changing period of Chinese art history will be unpicked and laid out, enabling a steady assessment and understanding of these extraordinary developments. Taking 1978 as its starting point the course will move forward chronologically focusing on key movements, specific groups and significant exhibitions that form the backbone of this startling rise in Chinese contemporary art. To date, Beijing has always been the focus of any study of contemporary Chinese art history, this course will redress the balance, shifting the focus to include the significant role played by Shanghai&r squo;s artists and art scene.



Fostering direct encounters with leading members of the Chinese contemporary art world, the program offers a privileged access to first-hand information on subjects relating to the Chinese contemporary art history and the collection of art. The forum encourages the exchange of ideas by means of guest lectures and personal contact with the lecturers and other guests, and will provide a unique opportunity to art professionals, collectors and enthusiasts to study the history of Chinese contemporary art.

Each two-hour seminar will take place in varying locations across Shanghai, either leading galleries or museums and will be presented by some of the most prominent experts in the field.

The course will be supplemented by with private gallery visits and specially organised social events which will provide informal meetings with leading gallerists, artists and critics at the forefront of Shanghai’s art scene.




Asia Art Forum is an educational initiative in collaboration with Arthub, produced by Pippa Dennis, with consultation from Defne Ayas and Davide Quadrio. Arthub has supported Asia Art Forum on framework, educational content, and scholarship.


Programme to include:
• Chinese Aesthetics: a background to Chinese Art History
• Birth and Rise of the Avant Garde: 1979-1989
• Turning Abstract: Shanghai Art from 1976 to 1985
• Political Pop: Post Tianamen Trends and the Ascent of Painting
• The Rise of Shanghai: Experimental Exhibitions, the Shift from Painting to Photography, Video, and Installations
• Sensation to Legitimization
• Performance and New Media in China
• Art Market Trends and ‘What’s Next?’

Speakers to include:

Philip Tinari is a writer and curator based in Beijing. He is Contributing Editor of Artforum, and founding editor of artforum.com.cn, the magazine’s Chinese-language website. His writings have appeared in publications including The New York Times Magazine, Parkett, The Wall Street Journal, and the Chinese journal Dushu, as well as exhibition catalogues for museums including the Guggenheim and the Serpentine Gallery. He is China Advisor to Art Basel. In 2007, he founded Office for Discourse Engineering, an editorial studio focused on publishing and translation related to Chinese contemporary art.


Karen Smith has been in Beijing since 1992 researching Chinese contemporary art. She is the author of Nine Lives: The Birth of Avant-Garde Art in New China and the forthcoming monogrpah on Ai Weiwei. Her curatorial work includes The Real Thing at Tate Liverpool, 2007; The Chinese, Kunstmuseum Wolfsberg, Germany, 2004; and Illumination; Ai Weiwei and Tibetan Plateau, Beijing Girls: Liu Xiaodong both at Mary Boone Gallery, 2008.

Davide Quadrio, co-founder of BizArt, China’s first not for profit art centre, and creator of Arthub, apan Asian arts organisation that supports mobility, research and process based artistic work in Asia and the Middle East. He is based in Bangkok and Shanghai and works as art director, curator and educator committed to supporting artistic endeavours crossing the boundaries between east and west.

Defne Ayas is based in Shanghai since 2005, and working as an art history professor at New York University in Shanghai and as a program consultant to Arthub, serving China and the rest of Asia. Ayas is also curator of PERFORMA, the biennale of visual art performance with base in New York City, where she spends part of the year. Prior to joining PERFORMA, where she has been developing and presenting performances since its inception in 2004, Ayas worked as the Education and New Media Programmer at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York.

Zhao Chuan is a writer, theatre director and critic. He writes arts columns and regularly publishes in major newspapers and the art press in mainland China and Taiwan. He’s the guest lecturer in the ChinaArt Academy and New York University’s Shanghai Center. His book Shanghai Abstract Story was published in 2006.

Michelle Blumenthal is an art specialist based in Hong Kong and Shanghai. She originally trained in Chinese traditional porcelain, ceramic, textiles and furniture, later moving into Chinese contemporary art as a curator and art consultant. Her specific area of expertise focuses on the development of Chinese abstract art from the late 1970’s.


Course I
designed for Shanghai residents
21 October – 2 December 2008
8 weekly sessions, Tuesday evening, 7.30 – 9 pm

Course II
designed for non-Shanghai residents
21 November – 23 November 2008
3 day course, daily, 9-12am and 2-4pm
Both courses will cover the same topics with the aim that Course II will enable overseas people to take advantage of this singular opportunity.

Prices
Course I 8,000 RMB (due on registration)
Course II 8,000 RMB (due on registration)
15% of all profits donated to Arthub, a non profit art and cultural organisation that promotes contemporary art creation in China and Asia.



For more information please contact:
Pippa Dennis
M (China) +86 138 1611 7193

Maria Turke
M (China) +86 131 2791 4091
asiaartforum@gmail.com
arthub.org.cn/asia-art-forum

bTWEEN“影像打水漂” 照片征集

上海电子艺术节eARTS08 浦东跨界展演节目之一——
　　
　　bTWEEN“影像打水漂”
　　
　　私影像 x 户外公共大屏幕
　　
　　想让你的私人影像记录出现在1000平方米的户外大型环幕上吗？现在就来参加吧！
　　
　　bTWEEN“影像打水漂”照片征集~~~~
　　
　　大家对小时候玩的石头“打水漂”一定都记忆犹新吧：找一块扁平的石子，找一个近于水面的倾斜角度，用石子打击水面看它能在水面上弹起几次。在eARTS08的NOTCH单元的bTWEEN节目，观众向大屏幕发送短信（石子），短信内的关键字将激发“影像海洋”里具有相似语义关键字的影像回应。回应（在水面上弹起）次数要看两者语义相关性能往下传递多远。在bTWEEN，文字（短信）和影像（大屏幕）两种不同的媒介让陌生人用一种新的（艺术化的，更具想象力）方式产生沟通并不断扩散。
　　
　　现征集你自己拍摄的关于“城市化风景”的照片，参与eARTS/NOTCH现场大屏幕互动。照片可以是城市化的视觉风景，也可以是人文，社会，虚拟世界。总之发挥你的想象力和对“城市化风景”的个人理解。
　　
　　参与方式：
　　非Flickr用户：
　　1. 从你拍的照片中挑出你认为有“城市化风景”含义的照片（精度不限）；
　　2. 将照片打包成一个zip或rar文件；
　　3. 邮件的正文写上每张照片的英文关键字（如照片1：street, happy；照片2：friend, festival, birthday）。如果你的英文不熟，可用中文，我们帮你翻译；
　　4. 邮件署名（真名或网名都可）
　　5. 将邮件发到 btween2cultures@gmail.com
　　6. 截止日期：2008年10月18日
　　
　　Flickr用户：
　　1． 将你的“城市化风景”的照片（精度不限）上传到你的flickr空间；
　　2． 记得每张照片要维护tag（英文）。并且每张照片的tag必须含有UL （活动代码）；维护好的tags可以在每张照片的右边栏看到。例如这张：http://www.flickr.com/photos/take10/141772774/
　　3． 截止日期：2008年10月19日
　　
　　现场：
　　时间：2008年10月19日晚7点到8点，10月20日 – 22日晚8点到9点
　　地点：浦东上海科技馆旁湿地广场
　　活动：现场将搭起一个直径30米，高15米的环幕。欢迎来现场向环幕发送短信看你的照片能否出现在公众面前！
　　
　　提示：
　　想让你的照片有更高的机会出现在现场大屏幕上，每张照片维护的关键字越多越好，但要和照片内容相关喔！
　　
　　
　　上海电子艺术节 http://www.shearts.org/

NEW/OLD ROUTES -A Selection of Video Art From Central Asia

Participating Artists: Abilsait Atabekov, Erbolsin Meldibekov and Alexandr Ugay from Kazakhstan, Veaceslav Ahunov, Serghei Ticina from Uzbekistan, Ulan Djaparov, Gulnara Kasmalieva & Muratbek Djumaliev from Kyrgyzstan

Curated by Stefan Rusu

Opening: January 11th, 2008, Friday 18:30
Exhibition dates: January 12th - 20th, 2008 (11:00 - 18:00)
Lecture: January 14, 11 am
Venue: BizArt Art Center

4/f, Bldg 7, 50 Moganshan Road, 200060 Shanghai

Tel: 86 21 62775358

www.biz-art.com, www.arthub.org.cn

Li Xuehui: xuehui@biz-art.com

Alexia Dehaene: guanchaoqun@yahoo.com.cn

New/Old Routes is an exhibition and publication that explores the nomad specificity of the Islamic states after the collapse of Soviet Union. An overview of the present situation of the Central Asian context by an external viewer becomes imperative; this visual material compiled by a guest curator creates a retrospective look at the internal and evolving processes of the socio-political and cultural background.

Overlapping networks and the relationship between the archaic-nomadic and the present-day post-industrial traditions provide a synthetic equation and an extraordinary cultural load. The re-use of tradition in these artists' practices become the necessary tool for articulation of contemporary art discourse to establish the nods of resistance against inertia, apathy and historical amnesia.

The project's first edition that took place in Croatia, Poland, and Germany promoted the positions of Asian artists and enabled cultural exchange between the contemporary art practitioners from Europe and Central Asia. The project's current version as presented in Shanghai, China at BizArt Center intends to open up the process of cultural exchange between China and Central Asia and show a number of diverse positions on the Asian identity, with a special focus on video production from Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan

About the Curator:

Stefan Rusu is artist and freelance curator based in Chisinau, Moldova currently he is the projects coordinator at the Center for Contemporary Art/Chisinau. In 2005/2006 he attended the Curatorial Training Program at Shtichting De Appel from Amsterdam where he co-curated Mercury in Retrograde ( www.mercuryinretrograde.com)

About ArtHub
ArtHub Foundation not-for-profit organization that supports contemporary art creation
in China and the rest of Asia
New/Old Routes is organized as part of the Bizart/Arthub's Prince Claus Fund-the Netherlands Network Partners 2008-2010.

Fabrica in eArts Festival

More photos
展览 / FABRICA：睁开的双眼/蓬皮杜中心
策展人 / Marie-Laure Jousset
城市 / 上海
开幕 / 2007年10月19日
展览时间 / 2007-10-19 至 2007-11-11
地址 / 上海市南京西路325号
机构 / 上海美术馆
备注 / 主办：蓬皮杜中心、Fabrica S.p.a研究机构、上海美术馆、上海文化发展基金会
承办：上海东方文化发展中心

2007上海电子艺术节 Shanghai eARTS

Shanghai will host China's first – and the world's largest - eArts Festival this October.
The world's leading arts and media figures will gather in China's most dynamic city to showcase and share the best in digital arts, against the backdrop of Shanghai's vibrant cultural life.
Partners already confirmed include Centre Pompidou, MIT, Ars Electronica and ZKM.



Festival highlights include:

* New Vision E-concert (new commission in association with Ars Electronica, Shanghai Music Conservatory, China Academy of Arts, New Media Arts of Blue Phoenix and Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe)
* Interactive art installations across Shanghai
* Giant LED screens on the Bund
* International Opening Forum
* E-music concerts in partnership with ZKM (Centre for Art and Media Kahlsruhe)
* Ars Electronica exhibition at Shanghai Science and Technology Museum
* Fabrica：“Lex Yeux Ouverts”, Centre Pompidou at Shanghai Art Museum
* Open air screenings in Shanghai's parks, including winning films from the International Animated Film Festival in Annecy
* Group shows (in over 10 venues) including Shanghai MOCA Animamix Biennial in Central Shanghai
* Multi-disciplinary Media Lab symposium and exhibition, led by MIT's John Maeda
* "Shanghai - Paris" Animation - the Shanghai students creative program in collaboration with Gobelins film school and Supinfocom, Paris
* Graduate show with works from the New Media Department at the China Academy of Arts - showcasing China's first New Media Art graduates

visit Shanghai 上海创意区

“田子坊”即泰康路210弄，是画家黄永玉几年前给这旧弄堂起的雅号。据史载，“田子方”是中国古代的画家，取其谐音，用意自不言而喻。自上世纪九十年代末，这条弄堂开始与一些艺术家结缘，陈逸飞、尔冬强、黄永玉、王劼音、王家俊......曾经的街道小厂，深巷里被弃用的仓库，石库门里弄的平常人家，因此而渐渐被抹上了“苏荷”（SOHO)的色彩、沾染了艺术的气息。

泰康路210弄2号乙 · 尔冬强艺术中心
　　这里常有版画展、招贴展、爵士音乐会、歌剧名段演唱会，艺术界名流云集。尔冬强本人也将自已的摄影作品在此展出。






红门艺术工作室 －－ 在这扇红门的左侧，“泰康路220号丁”的门牌下面，有着另一块更醒目的牌子：1936年　天然味精厂





泰康路210弄2号丁 · 金粉世家



泰康路210弄7号 －－ 右边一行小字：上海纸杯厂的成品车间　1958年墙面本身，不妨将它视为现代艺术作品。
M50视觉艺术产业园

莫干山路50号内汇聚的画室和画廊介绍。


位于苏州河畔莫干山路50号的上海春明粗纺厂，如今是闻名海内外的“M50视觉艺术产业园”。这里的老厂房群里，吸引了包括瑞士香格纳画廊、意大利比翼艺术中心、法国东廊艺术、英国领事馆文化艺术处艺术家工作室、加拿大艺术景画廊以及以色列、香港在内的国内外42家画廊、艺术中心、影视机构和56位艺术家、设计师工作室，成为苏州河畔一
道独特的文化景观和现代艺术的“新天地”。现在，几乎每天都有来自世界各国的旅游观光者到此参观或考察，海内外不少媒体记者也经常前来进行现场采访。

莫干山路50号内著名的香格纳画廊入口处。呵呵，不注意，还真以为就是一个旧仓库的破门呢

上海春明粗纺厂是一家建于上世纪30年代初的老纺织厂，拥有工业历史建筑4．1万平方米。春明在上海纺织产业结构调整中于1999年底停产。此后，留守的30多名员工对老厂房进行“整旧如旧”的适度包装，吸引了一批艺术家和从事创意设计的艺术机构纷纷入驻，逐步形成了以视觉艺术为特色的创意产业园区。

入口进来，便是过道，通向一片广阔的艺术空间。

“M50见证了上海传统产业向新兴产业转型的历史性变革。”上海华宇毛麻(集团)有限公司总经理兼上海春明粗纺厂厂长赵长征告诉笔者，昔日的苏州河沿线坐落着包括申新九厂、上海春明粗纺厂在内的十多家纺织企业，如今仅剩下上海春明粗纺厂的老厂房被完好无损地保留下来。M50充分体现了“旧”与“新”的和谐共生，因为这里曾是国内最大的棉纺织生产基地，拥有中国民族工业最早的棉纺厂和最大的棉纺厂，而上海春明粗纺厂作为苏州河沿线惟一保留得最完整的纺织企业厂房，目前成为上海最大的视觉艺术中心。

民族纺织工业的厂房融入现代前卫文化，为古老的苏州河增添了富有时代气息的亮色。美国《时代周刊》将M50列为全球“推荐参观之地”，其声名直逼纽约苏荷区和法国塞纳河。
对于圈外人来说，莫干山路50号不过是一群破旧的老厂房。但是，在真正的艺术家们的眼里，莫干山路50号却是一块孕育艺术的宝地。自从第一批艺术家看中莫干山路仓库的宽敞空间和合理租金并租来做工作室之后，这些旧厂房仓库的命运就被彻底改变了——

　　在短短两年的时间里，不断地有画廊、设计公司、艺术机构和艺术家迁入此处，从而形成了目前上海最具规模的当代艺术场所。这些苏州河沿岸见证过中国工业进程的工厂仓库如今焕发出新的生命力。老树开新花，开的是这些老厂房仓库做梦也没有想过的中国当代艺术之花。一时之间，海内外的媒体纷至沓来，争相报道，使得莫干山路50号的艺术仓库声名远播，有关上海现代艺术的报道也随之扩散到了全球。

不过，当我第一次走进这些由仓库改建而成的艺术家工作室时，还是暗自吃了一惊。这里，并不是我之前想象中的前卫场地——除了倚在墙头的大尺寸画作之外，就是画家本人了。其余的，不过是摆满各种颜料的长桌而已。但是画家们想要的，或许就是这样的效果。“看中这里就是因为这里的空间够大，创作起来，更加方便自在，”画家陈墙说，“待在太过舒适的环境里反而是创作不出好的作品的。”

营造的氛围

艺术的氛围需要被营造。相比以前各自为政的状态，上海的前卫艺术家这次是欢聚一堂了。私人画室、画廊、艺术工作室的捧场让苏州河畔的仓库艺术集群成了气候。画家们本来是散居上海各处，有的借住普通公寓房，有的在自己家中创作。以前，要拜访不同的艺术家的工作室或许要穿越整个上海市。但是现在，却可以在同一个地点同时拜访到许多位艺术家。每位艺术家的风格都是不同的，现在却能够聚集在一起，并非出于预先的计划，而是自然而然形成的，这样的相聚，给彼此提供了交流与撞击的机会，也为艺术家们创造了新的灵感。“城市的社会环境应该是可以让任何一个小圈子的人都能够在这个城市中找到自己的归宿。”画家薛松说。从自我封闭的个人画室，到对外开放的艺术仓库，艺术家们正在努力使艺术社区成为主流社会的一部分，成为上海城市艺术的一部分。

上海滩创意时尚新地标"8号桥"
越来越酷的老厂房正成为上海创意、时尚新地标。由旧工业厂房改造而成的“8号桥”日前甫一落成便引来关注，不但因其特有的建筑风格和历史底蕴，更由于这里汇集了与创意相关的各行各业，成为了名副其实的文化时尚聚集地。

　　8号桥的建设给我们不少启示，在对老工业厂房改造中，利用存量资源，注入时尚、个性的建筑元素，吸引众多创意工作室入驻。此举既保护了历史建筑，保留了城市发展的文化底蕴，又能构建起融合现代服务业与先进制造业的创意智能平台。

　　位于建国中路重庆南路口的“8号桥”，其前身是上海汽车制动器厂15000平方米的旧工业厂房。经过精心改造，原来那些厚重的砖墙、林立的管道、斑驳的地面被保留了下来，使整个空间充满了工业文明时代的沧桑韵味；同时，从大门口法国艺术家创作的大型雕塑《绿门》，到灰砖外墙上鲜亮的玫红色块，以及内部歌剧院般的层叠式休闲吧等，无不体现出创意风尚。

难怪从动工至今， “8号桥”已如磁石般吸引了众多创意类、艺术类及时尚类的企业入驻，包括海内外的知名建筑设计、服装设计、影视制作、画廊、广告、公关、媒体、顶级餐饮等公司。对这些企业来说，这儿最为独特的是园区设计时留出了很多“租户共享空间。，比如商务中心、员工餐厅、休闲后街、阳光屋顶、小花园等，提供了许多互动的空间，使不同领域的艺术工作者和各类时尚元素可以互相碰撞，更能够激发灵感和创意。“创意产业将改变我们的未来。创意产业聚集园区在发达国家出现也不超过十年。而这个概念已经引起中国政府、企业与社会各界的极大关注，这令我们非常兴奋。”“8号桥”的建设方香港时尚生活策划咨询(上海)有限公司的总裁黄瀚泓说道：“作为上海中心城区卢湾区重点打造的精晶特色现代化园区，我们希望‘8号桥’的建设可以为上海中心城区实现从传统工业向现代服务业的跨越提供参考。”




　　这种为不同创意产业提供一个交流平台的宗旨也在“8号桥”的命名中体现：改造后的旧工业厂房可以作为一个桥梁，将过去的历史和现代的理念融合起来，将国内和国外的时尚、文化与人才连接起来，将国外的顾问和国内的客户连接起来，所以取名为“桥。；由于这里本是建国中路8—10号，最终定名为‘8号桥’。
园区一期(8号楼)工程建设于2003年12月完成，建筑面积4000多平方米。上海(国际)产业转移咨询服务中心、上海市工业开发区招商服务中心是上海产业咨询服务园(一期)的核心单位。园区二期“上海时尚创作中心”项目(包括1—7号楼)由香港时尚生活策划咨询(上海)有限公司负责建设和管理。2004年3月开始建设，建筑面积近10000平方米。其先进的建设模式使园区成为发展现代服务业的标志性项目。

文章来源:新浪网上海频道.

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Two New Media Art Show in Shanghai Sculpture Centre

The exhibition 'Body Media" opens on July 15-August 12 (closed on Mondays) at Shanghai Sculpture Center, 570 Huaihai Rd 淮海西路近虹桥路，可轻轨3、4号线“虹桥路站”下，顺淮海西路东行约5分钟即见大门。此地儿又名“红坊”创意园云云。门票40元 “身体·媒体———国际互动艺术展”以其极具个性的展览风格和极强的互动性吸引大量观众，每日参观人次突破上海城市雕塑艺术中心的参观纪录。为满足市民提出的延后闭馆时间的要求，自今天起，每周六、周日增开夜场，从下午四点延长至晚上八点闭馆。
Now, 11 artists from nine countries and regions, including Japan, Austria, the United States, Germany, France and Sweden, and the Netherlands, are bringing their works to China's first International Interactive Art Exhibition, organized by Fudan University's Visual Art Institute and the Shanghai Sculpture Center. It aims to raise awareness of the new art and technology, starting from Sunday to August 12.

"Technology is a means of civilization, an illusion of control over our environment, what we called 'nature'," notes Kurt Hentschlaeger (from Granular Synthesis), who brought his latest installation piece "Karma" ("Destiny") to the Shanghai exhibition. "People create a second nature, which is supposed to control the original nature. This is certainly impossible."

"Karma" is an artwork that comes "alive" by using procedural techniques, in particular the real-time synthesis of sound, 3D animation, often seemingly unwell, trembling and oscillating.

The 3D characters are presented as puppets on strings, instilled with a familiar yet ambiguous sense of human life, resulting in an indefinite dance of the almost living dead.

Each 3D character moves and creates sound in the same frame, yet each of them has their own will to an extent that their actions and movements cannot be predicted within the space.

However, at the same time, the characters live in a very confined environment, and are equally controlled from the outside.

As such, "Karma" raises a question in a contradictory way - who is in control in people's life?

According to the Austrian artist Hentschlaeger, from the Western modern perspective, people believe they can control their life by their own will. However, the old perspective contains more mythological and religious thinking on that question. It holds that there is a life path that people cannot avoid, that is what people called "destiny," also called karma by some.

"Through 'Karma,' the two concepts clearly clash in the modern world," says Hentschlaeger. "Who is in charge of our life? There is no certain answer."

This is also the question for the new media artist, when he or she is creating his work - who is in charge, technology or the human being?

Most of the 11 artists invited to the show probably believe that people have an obsession with technology since all their installations and art works are realized through the support of high technology.

"Obviously the world we are living in is not obsessed with philosophy, but people are deeply addicted to technology," comments Hentschlaeger, who is deeply convinced by the theory that human beings can ultimately control their destiny and the world through technology. "The way I started living with technology became part of my way of looking at the world."

In this new media art exhibition, the theme "Body Media" stands out as a feature of interactive art as a part of new media art. It refers to the idea of human exchange or interaction with a technological artwork. As a user's actions and reactions are monitored, the outer environment will change and do something in interaction.

Curator Gong Yan, who proposed the idea of "Body Media," says the new media is a relatively young art form in its own history. It is not very well known by the Chinese public.

"With more and more young and old artists exploring this new art form, we are just wondering how long it could last for a single piece of new media artwork," she says. "This show aims to promote this new art form in a way that has various possibilities."

However, it is an over-estimation to call most of the work "interactive," says Hentschlaeger, since mostly it is just reactive. An interactive art work should be a strong and meaningful work that can process the reaction (the idea and sound raised) by an audience."

This exhibition is divided into three parts: the body as an actor or revelation of the artwork; the body represented in the artwork; and the body as an artwork itself.
三大部分

·身体激活作品
杰弗里·邵（Jeffrey SHAW） (澳大利亚)
约翰·米歇尔·布鲁耶尔（Jean-Michel BRUYERE） (法国)
杜震君 (中国)
厄尔夫·朗翰里切（Ulf LANGHEINRICH ） (奥地利)
朱里安·迈尔（Julien MAIRE） (法国)
TIME’S UP (奥地利)
米盖拉·罗斯切尔德（Miguel ROTSCHILD） (阿根廷)

·身体在作品中
粒子合成（Granular Synthesis） (奥地利)
科特·亨斯克拉奇（Kurt HENTSCHLAGER） (美国)
Dumb type(日本)
克里斯蒂安·巴托斯（Christian PARTOS） (瑞典)

·身体即作品
戴欧·杨森Theo JANSEN (荷兰)
Artworks by Jeffrey Shaw who created the world's first interactive cinema will be on exhibit. Besides, the innovator of "beach animals," Theo Jansen from the Netherlands, who believes "art is evolving," will also attend.


The new media artworks are often associated with virtual reality as if traditional art had nothing virtual about it. It is interesting to see that over and above the natural verticality any other art form, electronic arts and modern technologies do allow for a greater physical involvement of the audience and the "truth" of their own bodies.

At the age of 47, Hentschlaeger had experienced the twists and turns in the new media art field for more than 20 years. He started his art career in photography and painting, what people called "traditional fine art." He shifted to new media art in Vienna 20 years ago out of pure curiosity.

He found that the classical fine art world and the new media art world are really separate since there is very little connection between them and because new media art is difficult to sell.

"What we need in the future is a 3D real time environment," notes the artist, who believes new media art is a "time-based art. It is a virtual 3D space where you can combine all the media, including the cultural part, visual art, sound and interactive part into one coherent media."

Japan Media Arts Festival in Shanghai 2007 will open at Shanghai Sculpture Space on 19th-26th,Aug,2007.

Japanese persepect to express "Japan with happy culture" to Chinese audience by about one hundred cartoons, games and art works. Japanese plan the exhibition withe Shanghai to celebrate 35 anniversary of normalization of relations between China and Japan.

The exhibition will divide into three parts named "Earth","Tokyo" and "Expression".

2007 上海 日本新多媒体动漫艺术展
会 期：8月19日(星期天)在8月26日(星期天)
会 場：上海城市雕塑艺术中心
主 催：上海市文化広播影視管理局、文化庁
共 催：上海市対外文化交流協会、CG-ARTS協会
後 援：中华人民共和国文化部、在上海日本国总领事馆
協 力：上海城市雕塑艺术中心
感 謝：上海紅坊文化发展有限公司、全日空、日本通運、凸版印刷