<nettime-ann> Code:Blue, 3rd Beijing International New Media Art Exhibition & Symposium rescheduled to open on July 21

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Code : Blue – Confluence of Currents
The MILLENNIUM DIALOGUE 2006
3rd Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition and Symposium

July 21 – July 31 2006
Beijing Creative Space Art Center of China Millennium Museum
Beijing Cubic Art Center, Dashanzi Art District (Factory 798)
Beijing, CHINA
http://newmediabeijing.org

Presented by:
Tsinghua University
China Millennium Art Museum

In Collaboration with:
V2_Institute for the Unstable Media
ZKM | Center for Art and Media
Ars Electronica Center
transmediale
Art Center NABI
Groupe Molior

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 and beyond.

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 and symposium
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, traversed the Indian 
Ocean reaching the Cape of Good Hope numerous times, establishing 
peaceful relationships with principalities and kingdoms along their 
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, and 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 that it is 
the intrinsic nature of Chinese culture.

“Code:Blue” attempts to symbolically establish a relationship between 
China’s once ocean-minded past and her active engagement and rigorous 
interaction with current global influences both economically and 
culturally in an increasingly reciprocal construct, visible in areas 
such as trade / commerce, migration / mobility, identity / nationality, 
East / West, South / North and their dichotomies either as liberating 
high tides or as potentially perilous waters. The exhibition and 
symposium also metaphorically seek the confluence of these multiple 
cultural and economic currents, and propose Blue as transparency and 
deepness, flow and volatility, expanse and transcendence. The symposium 
will examine the increasingly interconnected global flux of information 
manifested through social and technological networks, reflect on the 
remapping and reconfiguration of cultural landscapes under the new 
geopolitical and geo-economic constellation in the 21st century, explore 
novel ways of artistic intervention in the post-bubble era of the Web2 
hype in which a world market consolidates the once discursive, 
de-centralized net space, and an attention economy replaces the 
production based economic model, creating new social classes and 
cultural strata. By re-contextualizing utopian visions and avant-garde 
propositions that have been the driving force of electronic art and 
discourse, the symposium proposes the potentials of media art as 
interventionist, constructing reflexive relationships with technological 
vehicles at the threshold of new paradigm shift, seeking alternatives at 
the crossroad of planetary civilization in which global economic 
redistribution and transcultural production both converge and collide.

“Code: Blue” is an international exhibition and symposium, which 
comprises works by established and emerging media artists, presenting 
artist and expert discussions, each giving his/her own insightful 
approach to the broad thematic structure, rendering a diversity of 
interpretations and raising issues imminent and central to the 
fluctuating social, cultural and economic circumstances across the 
world. “Code:Blue” presents representative works of telematic art, 
virtual reality, net art, robotic art, interactive cinema and other new 
forms facilitated through media technologies with critical reflections 
on the impact of pervasiveness of technology. A subset of the “Code: 
Blue” is programmed as “The Shipment From China” in which a body of 
projects by Chinese media artists using shipping containers as a 
metaphor as well as transporting vehicles will participate in the ISEA 
2006 / ZeroOne Festival in August 2006. The ISEA 2006 in conjunction 
with ZeroOne: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge, is hosted by the 
city of San Jose, in the Silicon Valley in the United States. “Container 
Culture” is one of the exhibition themes of the ISEA2006 / ZeroOne 
Festival.


Works and Artists Presented in the Theme Exhibition “Code : Blue”
Death Before Disco by Herwig Weiser
Spatial Sounds 100dB at 100km/h by Marnix De Nijs, Edwin van der Heide
Polyptic by George Legrady
WorldProcessor by Ingo Gunther
Sustainable by David Birchfield, David Lorig, Kelly Phillips
One Thousand Year Dawn by John Gerrard
We Interrupt Your Regularly
Scheduled Programs by Daniel Sauter & Osman Khan
Field – Granular::Synthesis by Kurt Hentschlåger and Ulf Langheinrich
Poetry Machine by David Link
The Catalogue by Chris Oakley
Banlieue du Vide by Thomas Koener
Pipeline by Steven Silberg
The Tobacco Project by Xu Bing
disCONNECTION by Xing Danwen
Altitude Zero by Hu Jieming
The Third Eye by Jin Jiangbo
Drift Bottle by Huang Shi
Water by Yaobin


Academic Exchange Exhibition
1. Teleboat 798 Parsons School of Design and Tsinghua Academy of Art and 
Desing (Collaboration)
2. Water Bowls UCLA (Victoria Vesna, collaborative)


Guest Exhibition - The Canadian Link
“Inside”curated by Sylvie Parent, guest curator, Groupe Molior
. DATA by AE
. Digitale by Alexandre Castonguay
. habitgram by beewoo
. Perversely Interactive System by Lynn Hughes and Simon Laroche
. Tact by Jean Dubois
wave_scan by Brad Todd

Special Screening Programs
1. Ars Electronica - 25 Years of Excellency in Electronic Arts
2. transmediale –Festival for Art and Digital Culture


“Code:Blue” Symposium

Part 1:
World Art / Regional Culture
-Reasoning Global Culture

The Future of the Present
- Art Institutions in the Age of Globalization


Part 2
The Vision of Blue
- Artistic Interventions, Strategies, and Prospects


Artistic Directors:
Lu Xiaobo, Zhang Ga

Curators:
Zhang Ga, Timothy Druckrey

Curatorial Consultants:
Alex Adriaansens -Director, V2_, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Andreas Broeckmann -Director, transmediale, Berlin, Germany
Thomas Munz - Curator, transmediale, Berlin, Germany
Soh Yeong Roh - Director, Art Center NABI, Seoul, S. Korea
Gerfried Stocker - Director, Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria
Peter Weibel - CEO, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany


Supported By
Ministry of Culture, P.R. China
Ministry of Science, P.R. China
Ministry of Information Technologies, P.R. China
Ministry of Education, P.R. China
China Art and Literary Association
Chinese Artists Association

Sponsored by
Gehua Cultural Development Group
Beijing Municipal Government
BANQ
Royal Netherlands Embassy Beijing
Mondriaan Foundation, Netherlands
The Austrian Cultural Forum, China
The German Foreign Ministry
Goethe Institut, Beijing
Art Center Nabi
Parsons School of Design
Bundeskanzleramt/Kunst, Vienna
Kulturabteilung des Landes Tirol
Cultural Ireland
David Bermant foundation
University of California at Los Angles
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Canada,
Ministère des relations internationales du Québec,
Ministère de la culture et des communications du Québec,
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec,
Conseil des arts de Montréal ,
Conseil des arts du Canada
CIAM (Centre interuniversiatire des arts médiatiques)

Media Partnership

China News Agency
CCTV (Central China TV)– Channel 1
People’s daily
China Education Daily
GuangMing Daily
China Youth Daily
Beijing Youth Daily
WenHui (Shanghai)
Morning Post
Art Observer
Art and Design
China Intellectual Rights Reports
China Entrepreneur
Tsinghua University TV and News Center
Visual China
New China Daily
Science Daily
Science Periodical
China Library News
China Culture Daily
CCTV – Digital Arts
China Product Design News
Beijing Society of Dancing
CCTV Cultural News Channel
CCTV Economics Channel
CCTV Channel 1
CCTV Channel 10
CCTV Channel 4
Radio China Cultural News
Beijing TV
CG Magazine
Vision Magazine
New Tsinghua Magazine
Tsinghua TV
MUSIC Magazine
Beijing Stars Daily
Capital Daily
Beijing Evening News
Tianjing Daily


Catalogue
Full color catalogue to be published by the Tsinghua University Press

About the venues:
The China Millennium Art Museum

China Millennium Art Museum is one of the most important institutions 
for presenting art exhibitions and cultural activities in China. Its 
holding company is Beijing Gehua Cultural Development Group, which 
manages and operates three large subsidiaries: Beijing Gehua Culture 
Center (China Millennium Art Museum), Beijing Gehua Technology Center 
and Beijing Gehua Broadcasting Center. Under the direct supervision of 
the Beijing Municipal Government, Gehua Group is the pivotal 
presentation and research enterprise of the capital’s culture landscape 
with influences radiating to the whole nation.

Beijing Creative Space Art Center of China Millennium Art Museum
http://www.bj2000.org.cn, http://www.gehua.com/ghwhzx/whhz/index.shtml

Code:Blue – Confluence of Currentskov
The MILLENNIUM DIALOGUE 2006
3rd Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition and Symposium will 
open in the Beijing Creative Space Art Center of the China Millennium 
Art Museum to mark the inauguration of the spectacular, over 100.000 
square meters Gehua Creative Space. The Beijing Creative Space Art 
Centerr is a brand new, state of the art facility exclusively designed 
to meet the growing needs of media art presentation and conference for 
China and as a platform for international media art exchange.

China Millennium Art Museum has been a major venue for important 
national and international art exhibitions, biennales, large-scale 
performances and other cultural activities. Since its launch to 
celebrate the millennium in 2000, it has received millions of visitors.


Beijing Cubic Art Center
http://www.11-art.com

Located inside the hotbed of Beijing’s DASHANZI art district (formerly 
Factory 798), Beijing Cubic Art Center is committed to finding new ways 
to implement technology as a means of communication. It provides a space 
for the dialogue between art and technology. It is an art space for 
discovering the work of new and avant-garde artists, as well as a 
research lab for investigating the intersections between art and 
science. The gallery focuses upon experimental digital electronic media 
art but is also open to working with artists in other media, conducting 
seminars, performances and forums in all ranges of discussion. The 
Center is constantly in search of new forms of expression and 
experimentation and gladly accepts proposal submissions for new projects.













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