Exhibition of Wandering-Digital Art in Historical Spacetime Launched in the Hunan Museum
On the morning of June 30, the exhibition of "Wandering-Digital Art in Historical Spacetime" was opened in the art hall of the Hunan Museum. This exhibition tries to conduct a deep dialogue and translation with digital art by combining Hunan's historical context and the national treasures of the Hunan Museum. Starting from the ideas, concepts and methods of global digital art, the exhibition is an interdisciplinary and cross-media experiment of historical archaeology and digital art, and is also an academic, public, local and international technology and art project.
As the first international digital art exhibition in Hunan, this exhibition invited 30 artists from home and abroad, which covered the most important global exhibitors such as Documenta, Venice Biennale and Linz Art Festival in Austria, bringing 32 exhibited art works in total. This is not only an important event for digital art exhibition, education and research in China, but also an important summit for global digital art exchange.
At the opening ceremony, the Hunan Museum officially authorized the Hunan Wuyuanfujie Culture Development Ltd. to be the digital creative research and development and global promotion unit for the exhibition "Wandering-Digital Art in Historical Spacetime", and to cooperate in the fields of digital creative R&D（research and development） and sales related to the special exhibition, and the construction and operation of digital art space in the meta-verse
At the same time, the Hunan Museum and the Hunan Wuyuanfujie Culture Development Ltd. officially released the digital commemorative badge of "Wandering-Digital Art in Historical Spacetime" created by Wuyuanfujie, which was launched on "My Changsha" App and "Wenwu" APP simultaneously, and users can enter the details page of badge to get it for free.
The First Unit: The digital rebirth of of national treasures of the Hunan Museum
There are six groups of digital artists converting five national treasures from Hunan Museum, including the square Ding with inscription of human face, bronze Zun in the shape of a boar, T-shaped painting on the silk excavated from the Mawangdui Han tomb, the floss-silk padded gown and plain unlined gauze gown etc. This is an inter-temporal dialogue of digital art, and a tribute to the excellent Chinese traditional culture by today’s digital technology. Establishing a close local connection between digital art and Hunan culture is the focus and difficulty of this exhibition. It is hoped that this is a research project to discuss the interdisciplinary interaction between digital art and contemporary museums and archaeology from the perspective of history, humanity and civilization.
The Second Unit: Integration of Digital Art and Chinese Art History
There are nine artists engaging in dialogues with works of ancient Chinese art history, their practice sheds light on us that technology is the most cutting-edge contemporary experiment, while civilization has a long and profound history, where the past and the present interplay. Even the most cutting-edge technology is only a drop in the ocean in the long process of history.
Reflecting on tradition from the contemporary, and discovering the future through the tunnel of history. In the multi-dimensional space-time interwoven by history and virtuality, this is a dialogue and fusion across time and space. Digital art is used to present the rebirth of classical civilizaiton, and to find the genetic code of future digital art from the long art history.
Unit 3 Digital Art Wave and Foreign Art History
In this unit, 12 artists go through the foreign art history to find a super fusion across time, space, culture and media. Just like we are in the meta-verse of time and space, regardless of time and space, we are actually meeting in parallel time and space, and digital media technology has become a channel to present a digital "Wandering" in different histories. The "Wandering" is the interplay of civilizations from the past to the present, and the divine travel of digital art. When the wave of artificial intelligence is overwhelming, where is the direction of digital technology? These digital artists have made positive thoughts and responses to AI with their own physical practices.
The exhibition is open to the public from June 30, 2023 to November 17, 2023 in the 1st Special Exhibition Hall on the first floor of the Hunan Museum, and visitors can purchase tickets by visiting the Hunan Museum's official website, official WeChat account, and Alipay .
