China Digital Art Association (DAC) is a well-known and fresh institution among modern Chinese arts organizations. At the end of 2007, some people with different work backgrounds from contemporary art, the Internet, and media founded this group. In less than 2 year, DAC has been invited to hold academic forums, new media art exhibitions, and multimedia performances in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, Taipei, and Kuala Lumpur. The most representative and outstanding Chinese artists such as Miao Xiao Chun and Feng Meng Bo cooperated with DAC to promote their art work.
DAC also cooperate with cross-cutting institutions both domestically and abroad, such as the recent high-profile event DAC, the 13th Hong Kong Microwave International New Media Arts Festival which invited DAC to organize a "Digital Art China @Hong Kong" exhibition; there is also the Malaysian National Art Gallery, and the Malaysia Art Fair Expo, which held the "Digital Art China @ Malaysia."
This December 23, DAC and the China Central Academy of Fine Arts co-sponsored a lecture entitled "Ars Electronica thirty years," a seminar held in Beijing. Ars Electronica Festival digital project director Ingrid Fischer-Schreiber made a special trip to Beijing to give a speech.
What is the DAC?
Some people say that DAC is a platform for the promotion of digital art. Others say no, DAC is not only the planning and conduct of pure digital art exhibitions, they are also very good at working with the Government and other agencies to conduct cross-border cooperation, so it is a comprehensive insti¬tution combining construction, performance, media, design, technology, and art. "They are all right to some extent, but not completely right. DAC is actually a network of relationships, an intelligent engine." DAC's founder Joe (Wang boqiao)’s expla¬nation for this group is that he believes that "the digitization age will change and break down barriers in many fields, art and technology will be merge, as they interact with each other in unpredictable ways. As a result, creative ideas from different indus¬tries will crash out of brilliant sparks here." DAC offers a platform where artists, scien¬tists, developers of software and hardware, researchers and theorists from various disciplines can share their ideas. DAC think art and culture play an essential role in the social embedding of, and attitude towards, technological developments. DAC is dedicated to the propagation and development of all forms of Chinese digital art, new media, digital video art, net art, interactive media art and so on. It also runs a Chinese digital art internet portal < www.dacorg.cn >
DAC Media Lab
Currently based in Shanghai, covering an area of more than 1000 square meters, it is China's experimental site, producing works of digital art. The lab has a research and production base for digital art and digital and multimedia technology, with a team of more than 30 people. Recently, the digital art R & D base hosted and partici-pated in the production of the museums, galleries, new media art exhibitions, trade shows, interactive display, and demonstra¬tion projects in over ten provinces and autonomous regions, both domestically and abroad.
D.A.C.
Interactive Multimedia perfomance
Digital Art of China Project
"Digital Art of China" is an international mini exhibit-communication activity, sponsored by the Chinese Digital Art Association, which presented the latest achievements of digital technology and the arts culture. There were 6 programs Including forums, exhibitions, arts festivals, lectures, performances and a City Hall Experience. Digital art of China has been held in five cities
2009 Exhibition Experience
> Hangzhou
April 2009, Hangzhou Art Fair 2009 Host: Hangzhou Culture Radio Press and Publication Bureau / Hangzhou Cultural Industry Association
This project was invited by the government of Hangzhou to organize a special exhibition. Most artists use digital, electronic, and multimedia tools and carriers; artists included the likes of scholar-artists Ma Gang (Head of the Digital Art Department in the China Central Academy of Fine Arts), and Tan Li-Qin (Professor in the Digital Arts Department of Peking University), and there was also Xu Zhongmin and Wang Zhiyuan, the cross-border contemporary art and new media art internationally renowned artist.
> Beijing
September 2009, the 5th Songzhuang Culture and Art Festival Host: Songzhuang Culture and Arts Association
Digital Art China @ Beijing's theme is "City Index"; there were 11 excellent artists who displayed their works. Their works went beyond the traditional and inherent model of conceptual art in terms of both form and substance, focusing on the content of their work. "City Index" presented and expressed China's urbanization process from the social, political, economic, technological, and cultural perspectives, as well as the impact of these changes.
> Hong Kong
November 2009, 13th Microwave International New Media Arts Festival Host: Hong Kong Microwave International New Media Arts Festival
The 13th Microwave International New Media Art Exhibition set up a special mainland Chinese artists’ unit. As the specially invited festival partners, China Digital Association (DAC) organized and planned the "Digital Arts China @ Hong Kong" art project. The new media art from the mainland recommended by DAC was collectively displayed in Hong Kong.
The organizers said: "People feel that this is a rare opportunity to see Chinese digital art. The biggest reaction to it is to recognize the high quality of the art work, which is all actually Chinese art, and which allows them to feel a kind of "identification" and "kindness" towards them, as compared with watching foreign productions."
> Malaysia
The 3rd Malaysia Art Fair 2009 Host: Malaysia National Art Gallery / Malaysia Art Fair
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in November 2009 opened the 18th annual art fair in Malaysia, as an arts event in Southeast Asia, with contributions from Singapore, Indonesia, South Korea, Japan, China, Spain; in all, more than 20 countries from around the world, the plus participation of regional exhibitors. The greatest sensation of this expo was caused by DAC’s exhibition. DAC’s two exhibition halls were the largest space in the expo, specialized in digital art exhibitions: two exhibition areas of more than 180 square meters. One of the 12-meter-long giant projection screens drew the attention, during that evening, of more than one thousand festival-goers.
ERICA YANG
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