<$BlogRSDUrl$> Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant
Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant
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Wednesday, February 02, 2005  

Beijing Museum Leaps Into Digital Future
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-01/11/content_407755.htm

Beijing's Millennium Art Museum's underground art center offers an innovative approach to using technology to enhance the art appreciation experience. Framed "still lifes" shift and change places with each other, and even speak to viewers in some cases. In the digital gallery, giant plasma screens display Impressionist paintings that morph into surrealist sculptures or futuristic files in an endlessly changing digital montage. "Artworks on each screen are rotated every one to 10 minutes," says MAM vice-director Wang Yudong, enabling visitors to view up to 1,200 works per hour. Wang says the Millennium's exhibits increasingly will feature works in new media, including "digital videos, Internet art/tech, digital photography, and other forms of digital imagery, including animations and virtual reality. Curator Chaos Chen notes that its eclectic exhibits are aimed at keeping "the Chinese audience aware of the most extraordinary developments in art worldwide -- the greatest achievements of humanity." And although Chen acknowledges that MAM's current Web sites (www.mam.gov.cn in Chinese and www.bj2000.org.cn in English) are still somewhat rudimentary, her goal is to create a virtual museum on the scale of the Netherlands Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art (www.wdw.nl), noting that "the entire Witte de With museum has been digitized and entered the virtual world." The Millennium is working with China's Tsinghua University and the Central Academy of Fine Arts, along with MIT and the Dutch V2 Institute for Unstable Media to develop a May exhibit that will celebrate on the convergence of art and technology in new media artworks.

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