In Search of Identity: Chinese Design

The Chinese Designers’ Region (CDR) is delighted to invite you to a roundtable discussion hosted by CDR and associate professor Dr. Wendy Siuyi Wong. Dr. Wong will give a lecture on her current research into contemporary Chinese design. To promote the discussion on the topic, CDR also invites Moa Correia who is the author of China’s Creative Voice to talk about what she has discovered about the trends of Chinese youth culture. Selected CDR members will also present their recent works. Dr. Wong who is from York University, Toronto, is currently a research fellow at Royal College of Art (RCA). The event is sponsored by Asian Design History, MA History of Design Programme at RCA.

Date: Wednesday, 11th November, 2009
Time: 6:45 pm to 9 pm
Venue: Humanities Seminar Room, Royal College of Art, Jay Mews Building
Organized by Asian Design History, MA History of Design (Royal College of Art) and Chinese Designers’ Region (CDR)
Admission: Free

Advance booking is required. Please R.S.V.P to cdrsubscription@googlemail.com. For other inquiries and information about joining CDR, please email info@cdregion.com.

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CDR’s Member Xuhua Zhan who is working for Tate Galleries and ICON (Institute of Conservation) was recently interviewed by New Weekly magazine. The interview was made during the time she travelled to China with Pierre Thompson who is Head of Paper Conservation at Tate Galleries. They have given out many lectures about conservation to major art institutes in China. (Such as Central Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou Academy of Fin arts etc.) Below interview Miss Zhan has told how we can still be able to see the old Masters’ paintings today.  Full article is in Chinese and published by New Weekly magazine in Guangzhou.

泰特美术馆的名画修复师 – 艺术灵医
http://www.neweekly.com.cn/index/newsview.php?id=1204  

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艺术品修复不是纯粹的技术活，也是对名作的重新考量。如今，从物料到思想，修复师们对艺术品的了解比以往更多，但往往是想得多，做得比以前少。
　25名参观者穿越气闸，进入圣玛丽亚－德尔格拉齐修道院的餐厅，在《最后的晚餐》前逗留15分钟后，他们就必须离开。只有老太太比宁•布拉姆比拉获准搬一把椅子坐在画前，此前她将25年时光献给达芬奇，清除画上的“不纯物”，再以想象填满剥落了3/4的颜料。这是BBC拍摄的《旷世杰作的秘密》中所记录的一个艺术品修复师的工作。有人指责她使《最后的晚餐》变得更加不完整，但是至少，比宁•布拉姆比拉使世人不再将圣托马斯的手误认成一只面包。

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Founder and creative director of CDR, William Hailiang Chen’s collaboration project ResoNet (www.reso-net.org ) recently has been voted by netizens for inclusion in the Open Archive, part of the exhibition Toward the Sentient City (www.sentientcity.net) at the Urban Center in New York City(September 17 – November 7, 2009). The exhibition is curated by Mark Shepard and organized by The Architectural League of New York (www.archleague.org )

ResoNet project video was selected and uploaded into ipod touches which allow audience to watch during the exhibition period. ResoNet video was made in collaboration with CDR’s member Tiantian Zhu who made the sound design. For full project information and video, please see below:

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Source from http://www.britishanimationawards.com/ (Thanks Ann Xiao’s recommendation)

The British Animation Awards (BAA) covers all aspects of the UK animation scene, from student work to commercials, children’s entertainment, short and experimental art films, music videos, new technologies. BAA is held every two years.  The next BAA will be in 2010, to be kept informed, join our mailing list:  info@britishanimationawards.com

BAA 2010 Entry forms ready for download!
Student Entry Form
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DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES 30th NOVEMBER 2009