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With continuing technological advancements, video art and digital media has been gaining greater prominence at art exhibitions and the art market. With a tech savvy society, the phenomenon seems inescapable. Yet, how is the general public to understand fast-changing formats of art and how does digital art really differ from Youtube or short documentary clips? To provide insight, this month’s Art Focus features a guided museum talk and a conversation between Gigi Guan (Asia Exhibition Manager of Lumen International Digital Art Prize) and Julie Chun (Art Historian and Art Convener) at the recently opened Modern Art Museum. The current exhibition “Unlimited” featuring the winning entries from the 2016 Lumen International digital art competition, serves as the apt platform for considering and reconsidering the role of moving images as an artistic construction that defies, subverts and even collaborates with the traditional medium of painting and sculpture.
Lumen Digital Art Prize is an annual international competition for digital art established in UK in 2013. As a not-for-profit social enterprise, Lumen seeks to promote the awareness of digital media in art through its competition, global tour and associated activities. For more information, please see http://lumenprize.comModern Art Museum is a newly established contemporary art museum in Shanghai that focuses on diversity, equality, exchange and education. With an open mind, the museum introduces classic art in the West and the East as well as innovative creations in all the creative fields. For more information about the Modern Art Museum, please see: http://www.yicangsh.org
