Lumen Matrix - International Digital Art Exhibition
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Lumen Matrix - International Digital Art Exhibition

Venue:
2nd Floor B2, Today Art Museum
B4, 32 Baiziwan Lu Chaoyang Beijing
Date:
11/25/2017 - 1/7/2018


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Lumen Matrix - International Digital Art Exhibition
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Lumen Matrix - International Digital Art Exhibition

11/25/2017 - 1/7/2018
2nd Floor B2, Today Art Museum
B4, 32 Baiziwan Lu Chaoyang Beijing
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The Lumen Prize, a global award and tour for digital art will open its first show in Beijing on November 25 at Today Art Museum. The exhibition will showcase more than 20 artworks including still image, installations, and VR works. Alongside award-winning artworks from the 2017 Lumen Prize - including this year’s Gold Award winner "Plastic Reflectic".
 
This exhibition is part of the sixth annual Lumen Prize global tour, following shows in the UK and preceding an exhibition in St.Petersburg, Russia. Entitled Lumen Matrix, this year’s Asian leg of the tour opens in Beijing. Matrix, a mathematical term, stands for a rectangular array of numbers arranged in rows and columns. The mathematical concept is widely adopted in handling data and categorizing a set of relevant numbers.
 

"With the invention of the computer and its binary language, massive matrices formed by 0 and 1 became regularly exposed to scrutiny. In this Digital Age constituted of codes and digits, human beings are thoroughly entrapped in the world of matrices." Wang Yan, the curator, comments. “Matrices build up a virtual world and technology. In the physical world, high synergy and consistency generated by ‘artificial intelligence’, together with information disseminated in velocity, catch human civilization between the devil and the deep blue sea."
 

The 2017 Lumen Prize Gold Award was awarded to "Plastic Reflectic", an interactive mirrored installation, created by Dutch artist Thijs Biersteker in collaboration with The Plastic Soup Foundation. The installation is made up of 601 pieces of plastic waste collected from oceans in different parts of the world. In Biersteker's work, when audiences approach a dark pond of water, where plastic debris is floating, the waste will appear and form silhouettes in accordance with their postures. The installation brings plastic waste that was once cast out to sea to the feet of the spectator, compelling them to rethink the reciprocal relationship between humans and nature.
 

The exhibition displays work by artists with different styles from a variety of cultural backgrounds. Through diverse media, including video, still image, interactive installation, sculpture, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, participating artists ruminate on widely-debated issues facing our age, including marine pollution, privacy, superintelligence, refugee crisis, and much more.

In the "Special VR Theatre", kindly supported by Beijing Renaissance Company, visitors are invited into an immersive experience through VR movies of exceptional visual effects. Screenings include: The Dream Collector by Pinta Studios, The Night Cafe by Borrowed Light VR, Allumette by Penrose Studios, Raising a Ruskus by Joshua Wassung.

The show also features a work, Danae by Elena Gubanova, co-curator of Cyberfest, and a director of Cyland. MediaArtLab is one of Russia’s most active New Media art non-profit organizations. Cyland houses the largest archive of Eastern European video art online, organizes exhibits around the world and is the force behind Cyberfest (Russia’s largest annual New Media art event.) held at The Russian Academy of Arts. The Lumen Prize has partnered with Cyland earlier this year and will be traveling to CyberFest 11 in February 2018.
 

During the exhibition, the public is invited to participate in a variety of events including workshops, performances, and cross-media activities. The exhibition runs through January 7, 2018.

The exhibition also received special support from the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the British Council and the following agencies and companies: MANA, VART, Angelfish F&B, Meural, Artbox School, Wanzhoumo, Gewara.
 

Lumen Prize for Digital Art
The Lumen Prize celebrates the very best art created digitally. As a not-for-profit social enterprise, its goal is to focus the world’s attention on this exciting genre through an annual competition, a global tour and associated activities including workshops, seminars and special events.

Since its first show in London's Cork Street in January 2013, Lumen has given away more than $50,000 and has staged over 30 exhibitions and events around the world, including New York City, Shanghai, Athens, Amsterdam, Riga, Cardiff, Hong Kong, Leeds and London. In collaboration with its academic partners, Lumen advances the understanding of digital art at seminars, artist talks, workshops and symposiums.

This year Lumen received over 800 submissions from artists across more than 40 countries and regions. After a review by its eminent Jury panel, 70 were selected for the Lumen Longlist. The winner of the 2017 Gold Award was Dutch artist Thijs Biersteker.
 

 
Artist:
Thijs Biersteker (Netherland), Nicole Ruggiero / Molly Soda / Refrakt (United States / Germany), Michelle & Uri Kranot (Denmark), Lien-cheng Wang (Taiwan), Mathias Dorfelt (United States), Zarah Hussain (United Kingdom), Fabio Dartizio (Italy), Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm (Denmark), Will Hurt (United Kingdom), Stefan Reiss (Germany), Carla Chan (Hong Kong), CYLAND Media Art Lab / Elena Gubanova / Ivan Govorkov(Russia), David Glicksman & Moses Journey (United States), Seeeklab (China), Zheng Da (China), Damien Borowik (United Kingdom), Fabrizio Augusto Poltronieri (Brazil)

Today Art Museum
Founded in 2002, Today Art Museum aims to provide a high standard of learning about art with a social conscience. Building high level international educational exchange and a top research team is the base of all its show. Beijing’s Today Art Museum thinks much of the exhibit plans, and insists the classical essentiality, technicality and the contemporary meaning of all our exhibits. In its exhibits, attention is given to two things: artistic characters and social functions. The museum emphasizes the intervention and promotion to contemporary art, and its ambition is to construct the highest platform for contemporary art.

The Today Art Museum continues to actively develop. The museum aims to promote Chinese contemporary art based on a global vision and a contemporary ideology. As the first non-for-profit, the non-governmental run art museum in China, it dedicates to explore an appropriate development strategy for museums of its kind within a Chinese context.

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Date: 2017.11.25-2018.1.7

Time: 10:00-18:00 (closed on Mondays)

Venue: Today Art Museum

Address: B4, Pingod Community, 32 Baiziwan Lu, Chaoyang District, Beijing
 
One child under 1.2m goes free with adult(s).

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Lumen Matrix - International Digital Art Exhibition

Venue:
2nd Floor B2, Today Art Museum
B4, 32 Baiziwan Lu Chaoyang Beijing
Date:
11/25/2017 - 1/7/2018


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