Pictures of the 3rd International Art and Science Exhibition and Academic

Symposium and Chinese university

Damian HillsYI JI

Background

The 3rd International Art and Science Exhibition and Academic Symposium mainly intended to reward innovation talents in art and science. The organizing committee selected over 112 works from 22 countries and regions from 462 works submitted through appraisal by relevant experts.

The works exhibited come in various forms, including scientific works that demonstrate integration of art and science such as new media art, product design, architectural, environmental design, visual communication design and art creation etc.

The theme of the event is “information•ecology•wisdom”, and is intended to pool together the most frontier research achievements in contemporary international artistic and scientific fields, and gather the pluralistic cognitive concepts and diversified means of demonstration in the current artistic and scientific fields.

The opening ceremony of the 3rd International Art and Science Exhibition and Academic Symposium

The opening ceremony of “the 3rd International Art and Science Exhibition” was grandly held in China Science and Technology Museum on the afternoon of Nov. 1, 2012. Over 3000 people comes from 120 universities around the world attended the event.

Academic Symposium

In addition to high-end international exhibition of art and science works, the event has also carried out a series high-level symposiums under the theme of “information, ecology and wisdom”. I have had a constructive communication with professor Lu xiaobo who is the chairman of symposiums committee and dean of Academy of Art & Design, Tsinghua

Nearly three hundred experts and scholars from various colleges

and universities nationwide also attend the symposium.

Pictures of two Chinese universities

Tsinghua universityChina Central Academy of

Fine Art (CAFA)

Tsinghua university

I. Tsinghua is the national center for training engineers,

scientists and artists (top 2 in China)

II. Tsinghua has 14 schools and 56 departments, 68 research

centers (thousand of research funds/y)

Tsinghua International Auditorium

Tsinghua Teaching Building

Tsinghua Art & Sience Gallery

I. University now has over 25,900 students, including 13,100

undergraduates and 12,800 graduate students (research based

university)

Features of University

Tsinghua design studios

China Central Academy of Fine Art (CAFA)

I. A leading institution for modern art education in China

II. The only art academy of higher learning directly under the Ministry of Education

CAFA Museum

It is composed by six schools, colleges and industries (have a closing relationship with Chinese industry)

Features of University

CAFA Design Studios

Digital virtual lab (large digital LED screen), its funding has been proved by Chinese company

CAFA Modern Art Gallery

I. International academic workshop