Final Project Proposal

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Chinese culture is on of the world's oldest1. The area covers a large geographical region ineastern Asia with customs and traditions varying greatly between towns, cities andprovinces. Elements in Chinese culture are no longer strange for Western people, but thereis no standard definition of Chinese elements in academic angle. The components ofChinese culture includes literature, music, visual arts, martial arts, cuisine, etc.2

As more of the world goes digital and grows more networked, the fittest survive and oldtradition will be replaced by new things. Chinese Traditional Art is the one of the oldest butremarkable world cultural heritage. Development of traditional arts in China today, somecategories are more or less retired in the marginalized into the A lack of an awkwardposition, prospects for the development of some categories is far from clear, some wouldeven say that these categories has lost its vitality should be sent to the museum.Meanwhile, with the development of economic globalization, the increasingly diverse andexotic culture continues to impact of cultural forms, such as the flood poured into the casein Western culture and the arts, lifestyle, values, aesthetics, the development of traditionalarts in our country is facing unprecedented challenges. Such as drama, opera known as the"essence", or around the long history of local operas, their markets are shrinking; anotherexample of traditional Chinese art, painting art department, then less and less value.

Peking opera, (left)

http://dramahome.org/beijing-opera-is-the-most-famous-art-in-chinese-culture.html

Chinese calligraphy set, (right)

http://www.charliebyrne.com/news_archive_details.php?ID=81

1 "Chinese Dynasty Guide - The Art of Asia - History & Maps". Minneapolis Institute of Art. Retrieved 10October 2008.2 "Guggenheim Museum - China: 5,000 years". Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation & Solomon R. GuggenheimMuseum. 6 February 1998 to 1998-06-03. Retrieved 10 October 2008.

Chinese Traditional Concert, at Xiamen University, (left)

http://zzxq.xmu.edu.cn/News/Express/201205/7129.shtml

Chinese Traditional Food, (right)

http://wenwen.soso.com/z/q194315809.htm

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It is worth pondering, why are Chinese young generation no longer interested in thetraditional cultures? Such as young people like coffee, not like tea, like to listen to foreignfolk to resist the Chinese drama, and in foreign countries, coffee is a traditional, but stillpopular, and even rock music is also traditional, but still allow young people to fanaticism.Young people abroad do not have too much avant-garde with the traditional distinction lotof fashion from the traditional evolution.

Chinese traditional art that happens of course, has many causes, but one important reasonis our lack of understanding of Chinese traditional arts, their cultural and spiritualconnotation, and many value the lack of popular scale publicity, manyyoung people asmasters of the future society, the traditional art is poorly understood, and so on, a broadrange of traditional art in China will one day vanish.

From the point of view of cultural appreciation, the traditional national, ethnic world; buton the other hand the level of cultural identity and protection, the tradition only is thenation's traditional arts of China, of course only by China's ownprotection. The creation anddevelopment of traditional art can not be separated gave birth to her national identity andnational habits. Only a collection of all forces in order to accomplish this glorious mission.

Childhood Spaceship

Cai Guo-Qiang: Sky Ladder

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Collection of the artist, commissioned by The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles

http://www.caiguoqiang.com

There are already Chinese contemporary artists that success in re-fashion or re-creativeChinese Traditional Art. Our wish is to hope that through our efforts, to show traditionalChinese art is long, deep, beautiful and variety so that more people understand China andChina's traditional art, so that these art treasures to flourish, to survive.It is difficult toimagine that there is no drama, no Chinese knot, no Lantern dumplings, tea ceremony, nopainting, as will a few thousand years of ancient civilization do? But believe that with ourjoint efforts, all this would never have occurred.

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Dadawa: Save the Voice Grow In The Land Of China

Introduction, English vision: http://ent.sina.com.cn/y/2009-01-07/19452332518.shtml

Official web page, most Chinese:

http://ch.undp.org.cn/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&catid=4&topic=43&sid=458

http://ent.sina.com.cn/f/y/showtheworld/index.shtml

3 News from Nanfang City, http://music.yule.sohu.com/20100510/n272029623.shtml4 Promoting Cover, http://cul.china.com.cn/renwu/2011-12/28/content_4728768.htm

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I will combine digital data, new media methodologies to re-create the oldest ChineseTraditional Art in my final project. This concept was showed in my previous works.

1st term: Processing

http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~ma101fz/Lab6/index.htmlIt's a concept that simulate Chinese ancient sleeve dancer dancing in the song played byAncient Chu Culture Chimes.Read more: http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~ma101fz/myPFA.html

2nd term: Processing

http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~ma101fz/unPuppet/index.htmlThis is a processing project combine Shadow Play, try to remain the elements but createart works in new art forms.Read more: http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~ma101fz/PFATerm2.html

2nd term: Physical Computing

Link of video: https://vimeo.com/39659970

This project here will use 2 sensor as inputs, one is "HC--SR501 Body Sensor Module"which I bought online, the other sensor is "tilt switch" which leds and animation on screenare the outputs, which use the background of a famous Chinese Opera story combinenewest technology.Read more: http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~ma101fz/PhysicalComputing.html