Cultural Exchanges in July

The local municipal government has set aside budgetary funds for the festival, and is looking to raise further funding from sponsorship and selling the naming rights to the festival. Running the festival as a business, the city is hoping to attract participation from various social organizations in running the festival and performing tasks like producing, ticketing, and marketing.

6、The Body Media-International Interactive Art Exhibition

The Body Media-International Interactive Art Exhibition sponsored by the Shanghai Institute of Visual Art and Shanghai Sculpture Space was unveiled on July 15.

Conceived at the cutting edge of the trend, “Body Media—International Interactive Art Exhibition” uses its visitor’s “body” as interface, in the light of firsthand “individual experience”, explores the boundary between “Art” and “Technology”, and bridging them with the bricks of humanization and emotionization. “Art could be more, technology could be more.” this exhibition also wants to seek the future possibilities for both art and technology.

This exhibition features eleven most active artists and art groups in this field from ten countries bringing their magnum opus and latest works, each of which makes its debut in China. Companying each piece of work are photos or videos telling the process behind each piece, hoping to fill the gap between artists and viewers. From another angle, it proves that “Science and Technology” is not something isolated and abstract to human being, instead, it cooperates with human’s spirit and body until destroying our body’s limitations as it has done to the limitations of contemporary art.

Editor: Li Jing