Starting on Wednesday to June 21, the CAFA Art Museum in Beijing and its German partner the Hessen State University of Art and Design are holding an exhibition titled Moving in Time: B3 + Beijing Moving Image Exhibition, including artworks from 60 artists that were selected from over 120 applicants.
Among the presented works, juries will further select 10 artworks that will head to Frankfurt to join the B3 Biennial of the Moving Image in October. The theme of this year's Biennial will be "Expanded Senses," which looks to explore "the future of storytelling in the digital era."
Jury members include Bernd Kracke, founder of the B3 Biennial; Annita Beckers, curator of the B3 Biennial; and three CAFA members, Fan Di'an, president of the CAFA; Wang Huangsheng, director of the CAFA Art Museum; and Song Xiewei, deputy director of School of Design at CAFA.
During a press conference for the exhibition, Su Xinping, the deputy president of the CAFA, said that the moving image is the most direct and vivid form of art in this era. For this reason, international communication and cooperation is important to share the most cutting edge technology and designs.
Emphasizing this idea of sharing, one of the works at the exhibition is called Everyone is a Curator, a crowd-funding project that invites people to get involved in the exhibition and release their own creative potential.
Another exhibit, the Toshow: 100,000 Cat Project is a social media doodle project in which the public can submit their drawings of cats through social media platform WeChat and then have them displayed as part of the exhibit.
The interaction doesn't stop there. As visitors pass by a long wall where the doodles are displayed, they are able to use provided devices to leave comments about what they think about the pictures.
The exhibition also includes sound performances, film screenings, video games as well as other fun digital works for visitors to see and experience.
