Digital Revolution
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Digital Revolution

Venue:
WF Central (L1&B1 Exhibition Halls)
269 Wangfujing Street (王府井大街269号) Dongcheng Beijing
Date:
1/16/2018 - 5/20/2018
This ticket is only available as an e-ticket
Digital Revolution
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Digital Revolution

1/16/2018 - 5/20/2018
WF Central (L1&B1 Exhibition Halls)
269 Wangfujing Street (王府井大街269号) Dongcheng Beijing
100 - 150
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WF Central announced a major arts collaboration with the internationally renowned Barbican Centre, to bring the acclaimed Digital Revolution exhibition to Asia for the first time.

As one of the most comprehensive presentations of digital creativity ever to be curated, Digital Revolution at WF CENTRAL explores and celebrates the transformation of the arts through digital technology since 1970. The exhibition brings together a range of artists, filmmakers, architects, designers, musicians and game developers who are pushing the boundaries of their fields using digital media.
 
The exhibition represents the first in an ongoing series of arts and cultural experiences at WF CENTRAL, envisaged to engage, connect and build community through a considered curation of art and cultural creativity and experiential lifestyle. The events include further highly prestigious artistic collaborations with renowned international arts bodies with an exciting line-up of exclusive art exhibitions and installations.
 
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Digital Revolution, which opens to the public on 16th January 2018, comprises stunning immersive and interactive artworks alongside exhibition-based display across seven specially-themed installation zones set within WF CENTRAL, the new premium lifestyle retail centre at Wangfujing Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing.
 
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Curated by Barbican International Enterprises, this interactive exhibition embraces over 140 artworks. Displays include special new commissions from leading Chinese media-artists Feng Mengbo, and Wu Juehui, exhibited alongside a wide array of global creative minds, including the works of world-famous musicians and entrepreneurs, will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas, Björk, Paul Franklin, visual effects designer for the Oscar-winning movie Inception and Chris Milk, music video director for music stars such as the Chemical Brothers, U2 and Kanye West.

Wu Juehui invites his audience to experience his 'Neo's Eye' of surreal spaces, inspired by the film 'The Matrix'. Augmented reality headsets imprint random numbers, code and information in a fragmented form over objects and people, making the viewer question what is really the 'real world'.

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As an old Chinese proverb says: "An exchange of blows friendship grows." Multi-media artist Feng Mengbo presents 'Trueman Fight', a holovision game that shows real characters - his friends are 'actors' filmed and then programmed into the installation - that can be controlled in the computer game as if real people are staging a fight.

Trueman Fight
 
The exhibition also features filmmaker and artist Chris Milk, who has been honoured with top industry awards for his music video and commercial work, including the Grand Prix Cannes Lion, the D&AD Black Pencil, the Grand Clio, and SXSW's 'Best of Show', as well as multiple Grammy® nominations, MTV Moon Men, and the UK MVA Innovation Award.
 
In recent years, Milk has focused on using cross-media innovations to enhance emotional human storytelling, exposing the beauty in the things - physical, digital, intangible - that connects us all, with a wide range of exhibitions including works featured at the Tate Modern, the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival.

Digital Revolution features his major work, The Treachery of Sanctuary, a three-screen shadow play installation which explores life, death and rebirth through a moving onscreen narrative which visitors are invited to interact with.
 
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"As a wholly unique retail and lifestyle experience in the heart of Beijing, WF CENTRAL will be a destination for a diverse array of art and cultural activity," said Mr Raymond Chow, Executive Director of Hongkong Land. "We aim to curate the very best cultural experiences, both from China and internationally and we are delighted to host this dynamic exhibition in collaboration with the Barbican, one of the most significant and internationally recognised art centres in Europe."

Mr Neil McConnon, Head of Barbican International Enterprises and project commissioner said: "Digital Revolution showcases a new generation of international artists, designers, filmmakers and musicians, celebrating creatives who continue to push artistic boundaries across the arts using digital media. We are excited to bring this internationally acclaimed exhibition to the people of Beijing and transforming WF CENTRAL into an animated canvas, which we hope will inspire digital enthusiasts, gamers, movie fans, music fans, families and art fans alike."
 
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Digital Revolution embraces over 140 artworks, set within seven specially-themed areas:

- Digital Archaeology rediscovers the key moments of digital creativity that are in danger of becoming lost forever owing to the rapid developments in hardware and software since the 70s.

- We Create examines the increasing shift of web audiences from content consumer to creative content producer and participant, using readily available digital tools which are often free to use.

- Creative Spaces demonstrates how conventional notions of time, space and narrative can be re-imagined using digital tools.

- Sound & Vision examines the digital music revolution and the introduction of digital technologies has come to influence not only the sounds we hear but the style in which we see them, changing the look and feel of music forever.

- Our Digital Futures presents a selection of some of today’s most experimental and future-focused artists working with communication technologies, virtual and augmented realities, and high-performance textiles. The projects span the worlds of cyborg and wearable technologies, drones, artificial intelligence, warfare and big data.

- DevArt challenges what code can be, and what art can be. When developers use code to push the possibilities of creativity and technology, the result is a new type of art. It’s called DevArt and it’s made by a new type of artist.

- Indie Games Space looks at video games that have been created with generally little or no direct support from a video game publisher. Often consisting of no more than a coder, sound and graphics artist, independent games now span many genres.

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Date: 16th Jan - 20th May (closed on Mondays)
 
Time: 10:00-22:00 (last entry 21:00)
 
Price:
Weekday Ticket (Valid Tue-Fri) - RMB 100
Any Day Ticket (Valid Tue-Sun & Holidays) - RMB 150

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Digital Revolution

Venue:
WF Central (L1&B1 Exhibition Halls)
269 Wangfujing Street (王府井大街269号) Dongcheng Beijing
Date:
1/16/2018 - 5/20/2018
This ticket is only available as an e-ticket
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