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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 _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann