Final Project Proposal Introduction Chinese culture is on of the world's oldest 1. The area covers a large geographical region in eastern Asia with customs and traditions varying greatly between towns, cities and provinces. Elements in Chinese culture are no longer strange for Western people, but there is no standard definition of Chinese elements in academic angle. The components of Chinese culture includes literature, music, visual arts, martial arts, cuisine, etc. 2 As more of the world goes digital and grows more networked, the fittest survive and old tradition will be replaced by new things. Chinese Traditional Art is the one of the oldest but remarkable world cultural heritage. Development of traditional arts in China today, some categories are more or less retired in the marginalized into the A lack of an awkward position, prospects for the development of some categories is far from clear, some would even say that these categories has lost its vitality should be sent to the museum. Meanwhile, with the development of economic globalization, the increasingly diverse and exotic culture continues to impact of cultural forms, such as the flood poured into the case in Western culture and the arts, lifestyle, values, aesthetics, the development of traditional arts in our country is facing unprecedented challenges. Such as drama, opera known as the "essence", or around the long history of local operas, their markets are shrinking; another example of traditional Chinese art, painting art department, then less and less value. Peking opera, (left) http://dramahome.org/beijing-opera-is-the-most-famous-art-in-chinese-culture.html Chinese calligraphy set, (right) http://www.charliebyrne.com/news_archive_details.php?id=81 1 "Chinese Dynasty Guide - The Art of Asia - History & Maps". Minneapolis Institute of Art. Retrieved 10 October 2008. 2 "Guggenheim Museum - China: 5,000 years". Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation & Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. 6 February 1998 to 1998-06-03. Retrieved 10 October 2008.
Chinese Traditional Concert, at Xiamen University, (left) http://zzxq.xmu.edu.cn/news/express/201205/7129.shtml Chinese Traditional Food, (right) http://wenwen.soso.com/z/q194315809.htm Findings It is worth pondering, why are Chinese young generation no longer interested in the traditional cultures? Such as young people like coffee, not like tea, like to listen to foreign folk to resist the Chinese drama, and in foreign countries, coffee is a traditional, but still popular, and even rock music is also traditional, but still allow young people to fanaticism. Young people abroad do not have too much avant-garde with the traditional distinction lot of fashion from the traditional evolution. Chinese traditional art that happens of course, has many causes, but one important reason is our lack of understanding of Chinese traditional arts, their cultural and spiritual connotation, and many value the lack of popular scale publicity, manyyoung people as masters of the future society, the traditional art is poorly understood, and so on, a broad range of traditional art in China will one day vanish. From the point of view of cultural appreciation, the traditional national, ethnic world; but on the other hand the level of cultural identity and protection, the tradition only is the nation's traditional arts of China, of course only by China's ownprotection. The creation and development of traditional art can not be separated gave birth to her national identity and national habits. Only a collection of all forces in order to accomplish this glorious mission.
Childhood Spaceship Cai Guo-Qiang: Sky Ladder 2012 Collection of the artist, commissioned by The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles http://www.caiguoqiang.com There are already Chinese contemporary artists that success in re-fashion or re-creative Chinese Traditional Art. Our wish is to hope that through our efforts, to show traditional Chinese art is long, deep, beautiful and variety so that more people understand China and China's traditional art, so that these art treasures to flourish, to survive.it is difficult to imagine that there is no drama, no Chinese knot, no Lantern dumplings, tea ceremony, no painting, as will a few thousand years of ancient civilization do? But believe that with our joint efforts, all this would never have occurred. 3 4 Dadawa: Save the Voice Grow In The Land Of China Introduction, English vision: http://ent.sina.com.cn/y/2009-01-07/19452332518.shtml Official web page, most Chinese: http://ch.undp.org.cn/modules.php?op=modload&name=news&file=article&catid=4&topic=43&sid=458 http://ent.sina.com.cn/f/y/showtheworld/index.shtml 3 News from Nanfang City, http://music.yule.sohu.com/20100510/n272029623.shtml 4 Promoting Cover, http://cul.china.com.cn/renwu/2011-12/28/content_4728768.htm
About Final Project I will combine digital data, new media methodologies to re-create the oldest Chinese Traditional Art in my final project. This concept was showed in my previous works. 1 st term: Processing http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~ma101fz/lab6/index.html It's a concept that simulate Chinese ancient sleeve dancer dancing in the song played by Ancient Chu Culture Chimes. Read more: http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~ma101fz/mypfa.html 2 nd term: Processing http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~ma101fz/unpuppet/index.html This is a processing project combine Shadow Play, try to remain the elements but create art works in new art forms. Read more: http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~ma101fz/pfaterm2.html 2 nd term: Physical Computing
Link of video: https://vimeo.com/39659970 This project here will use 2 sensor as inputs, one is "HC--SR501 Body Sensor Module" which I bought online, the other sensor is "tilt switch" which leds and animation on screen are the outputs, which use the background of a famous Chinese Opera story combine newest technology. Read more: http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~ma101fz/physicalcomputing.html