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Exhibition Highlights
Animamix: From Modernity to Eternity
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Oct. 14 - Nov.4 ,2007
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Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai
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More about the Exhibition
The Animamix artists of the 21st Century are not merely producers of animation and comics, they are active in all areas of the creative industry. Their works cover an entire range of art forms, reflecting the aesthetics of Animamix [the culmination of Animation + Comics]. The first Animamix Biennial is being organized in collaboration with Shanghai eArts Festival, China's first and the world's electronic media arts festival. Beginning October 19th until 23rd, the world's leading arts and media figures will gather to showcase the best in digital arts, against the backdrop of Shanghai's vibrant cultural life.
Animamix Biennial: The popularization of Animamix Art has created an entirely new industry, which is prospering in many regions throughout Asia. The deep-rooted heterogeneity of form and ideas in Animamix Art can therefore be seen as a prototype of the latest form of artistic direction, which is quickly spreading throughout the world. In other words, Animamix Art has become one of the most important sources of inspiration for the global art scene of the new century.
The 1st Animamix Biennial at MoCA Shanghai demonstrates the strength of this new genre from fine art to popular art. The worship of "youth" culture travels at light speed via endless new products in the electronic and digital media including but not exclusive to the Internet, television, and mobile communication systems. The aesthetics of Animamix norms realized from modernity to post-modernity are based on visual languages or visual codes that have a possibility to last an eternity.
In the words of this year's organizer of the first Animamix Biennale, Victoria Lu, Creative Director Of Shanghai eARTS Festival, "Animamix Art is not about Animation or comics itself it is an all-inclusive concept of the aesthetic choice of this new century.It is a kind of art beyond art, time beyond time, space beyond space, and life beyond life.Animamix Art is a brand of art that is recording our creations of third-life in virtual realities and existing in the fourth dimension of all electronic and digital worlds."
"I first suggested the concept of the ‘Neo-Aesthetics of Animamix (Animation+Comics)' when MoCA Taipei was hosting Fiction.Love in 2004. I then curated a new version of Fiction@Love for MoCA Shanghai in 2006, at which time she identified four important characteristics of 21st Century Animamix: firstly, that the numerous diversified Animamix images in popular culture are based upon the worship of "youth" culture. Secondly that Animamix Art is full of unique and evolving narrative texts and images, which themselves are a visual language. Thirdly, Animamix is a product of electronic media featuring a spacious vision of colored light. Fourthly, because the formation of Animamix Art often involves a great amount of material, financial and human resources, cross-industry integration is a unique phenomenon of Animamix culture."---Victoria Lu
Shanghai eArts Festival: Shanghai will host China's first - and the world's largest - eArts Festival this October. Shanghai eArts launches on 19th October with a five-day programme of groundbreaking events around the city and month-long exhibitions, bringing together the finest digital arts from all over the world. Some of the world's leading arts and media figures will gather in China's most dynamic city to showcase and share the best in digital arts, set against the backdrop of Shanghai's vibrant cultural life. Dubbed Wisdom of Crowds, Shanghai eArts Festival will feature a dynamic range of work - from exhibitions and installations in major museums and art galleries, New Vision Concert at Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre, digitalworkson giant screens on the Pudong Bund, to participative digital arts events in Shanghai's public parks and creative summits.
Curators:
Victoria Lu
Lisa Zhou
Organizers:This exhibition is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai (MoCA).
Sponsors: This exhibition is possible with technical equipment sponsorship loan of TECO
Artists:
Chen Fei,Fu Kai Lai,Fu Liya,Gao Feng,Gao Xiao Wu,He Wei,Hu Bin,Ji Lei,Kang Can,Li Guo,Li Jie,Li Zan,Liao Man,Lin,Liu Bin ,Liu Jia,Liu Xiao Ying,Luo Dan,Luo Hui,Luo Jie,Luo Zhenghong,Mu Lei,Peng Bo, Qin Jie,Tang Zhi Gang,Tu Hong Tao,Wang Mai,Wang Xi,Wang Yang,Wei Jia,Wu Ding Long,Xiao Man,Xu Mu Yun,Xu Qin,Yan Yun,Yang Na,Zeng Ling Xin,Zhang Shuang,Zhang Tian Xiao,Zhang Xiao Dung,Zhang Xiao Jun,Zoe Zhou,
Agi Chen,Chang Chan-Ru + Hsu Tung-Xsiang,Chang Geng-Hwa + Chang Keng-Hau,Charwei Tsai,Chen Yao Ci,Chu Chia Hua,Ding Zhao Chen,Eric Chen & Jackie Lee of Gamania,Hsu Tang Wei,Joyce Ho + Craig Quintero,LEE Tzu-hsun,Lin Chuan-chu,Ma Chun Fu,Mr. Eyeball,Mr. Red,Mark Chang of Pixie Gallery,Tsai Chih Wei,WowBravo & Funky Rap,
Claudio Castillo,Dieter Jung,Oliver Griem,Rolf A. Kluenter,Ai-Hz, Corinne Marchetti, Florent Nicolas Wendling, Kolkoz, Philippe Codognet, Stephane Sednaoui,Thukral and Tagra,Bunga Jeruk, Aldo Lanzini,Andrea Gotti,Lorenzo Pizzanelli,Eiji Moribe, Hiroko Fukunaga, Hiroki Tsukuda, Hiroyuki Matsuura, Maggie,portable[k]ommunity, Ryoichi Kurokawa,Shinjuko,Tomoaki Ichikawa,Yoshitaka Amano,Chang-Kyun Kim,Hae-Min Kim,Kisoo Kwon,Minkyu Lee,Son Donghyun,Suk-Hyun Kang,Julia Milner,Jackson Tan of Phunk Studio, Lisa K. Blatt,Lisa Ruyter
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