Creative Grounding
The Collaboration Ground
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Hsuan Cheng Chen
Facing the environmental and survival challenges of the next generation, the ground that bears architecture and art is no longer just about form, aesthetics, and mechanics. It involves dealing with the water falling from the sky, the movement of air currents, and the surfaces where geological sedimentation beneath the earth's surface and biological activities intersect, creating an environment where problems and creation mutually nourish each other. Architecture and art explore and develop the vitality and growth phenomena in nature, seeking a dynamic coexistence between humans and other life forms. These local and relational successions affect a series of relationships, altering the nature of places over time and through usage, unfolding as a collaborative and mutually supportive relationship, rather than a unidirectional production and consumption. "The Collaboration Ground" reexamines the role of human construction, not as a destructive force concerned solely with human use, but through collaboration, actively understanding and repairing the environment. Through architecture and art, it explores and responds to the coexistence and succession of life, where life forms accumulate into different knowledge, encompassing logic, ethics, and sensory experiences. It's an action of repair towards oneself, life, and the land. This paper discusses the creative and research practices of the "Wilderness Museum" and the "Collection and Creation of Vanishing Landscapes," examining how art can develop various ways of coexisting with the land, combining botany, environmental science, and sociology.
Socio-cultural Dynamics of the Digital Arts: An Era in Jinling: A Digital Art Exhibition - an Interactive Landscape of Nanjing Project
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Jiangmeizi Zheng
Digital art brings people artistic experience through the combination of art and technology, and its characteristics include the digitization and diversification of creation methods, communication media, and presentation forms, which also bring people a broader space for creation, appreciation, participation, and comprehensive multi-sensory experience.This study uses the public digital art project An Era in Jinling: A Digital Art Exhibition: An Interactive Landscape of Nanjing as a case study, placing it in a dynamic time and space, combining experiential learning, embodied learning, and cultural learning theories to analyze the social and public education function of digital art. The study shows that 1. Public digital art should give full play to its cross-media integration, cross-temporal interaction, and multi-sensory immersion to stimulate participants' interest in participating in public digital art projects and enhance their ability to participate in digital art projects from multiple perspectives. 2. Establishing a dialogue among society, art and technology, and exploring the functions of public digital art from the perspective of "connection", so as to stimulate the new vitality of it. 3. Deeply explore local culture, promote the deep integration of art and society, enhance the connection and communication between people, culture and society, and serve the public to improve their aesthetic literacy and lifelong learning ability.
