Digitally Asian → more

In the 21st century, China has shown tremendous vitality and has emerged as a major economic and political power. It also has a great underlying potential to be the global nexus of digital media art, in both fine arts and commercial areas. The “Digital Asian” event represents a large number of talented digital media artists and creators of digital art in China. Artists and practitioners working in variety of digital media and methods, including narrative and non-narrative videos and films and 2D and 3D animations. The event is organized to encourage exploration in new media and challenges to the conventional notion of art and as an event, the “Digital Asian” reflects on the dynamic integration of Chinese aesthetic interests and contemporary digital media

ReExpanding Cinema → more

The program “Re-Expanding Cinema references the concepts put forth by Gene Youngblood in 1970 published in “Expanded Cinema, which was the first book to consider video as an art form and how it expanded into its own genre. This was an influential moment in that it established the birth of the field of media arts. The argument that expanded cinema is required for a new consciousness might lead one to consider how since then the development and availability of digital technology has re expanded approaches to moving image based artworks utilising new technology and how the establishment of such has “re-expanded cinema to include complete new approaches. In the same vain, cinema "re-expanded" beyond the arts genre and the narrative context of film include new approaches that included many more genre such as comedy, music television, etc.