Supported by:
Goethe-Institute, Beijing
Greenwood Global Media, USA
Institute for New Media, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
University of Hertfordshire, UK
Digital
Art Projects – Field of Vision - Beijing 2006
Helen worked with Digital Art Projects and
helped curate an exhibition and produce a short video for
Field of Vision, China. Digital Art Projects is a network
of artists interested in international collaboration for example
Field of Vision, a pioneering artwork that fuses photography,
performance and the moving image. The group works between
the UK and Berlin with its permanent virtual base on the web-servers
at the Institute for New Media in Frankfurt a.M. [INM]. The
group has initiated projects with artists whose home countries
are as far apart as Taiwan, Mexico, Brazil, Finland, Poland,
Russia, Turkey, Slovenia, Chile, Nigeria, Senegal, USA, Canada,
UK, Germany, Ireland, Australia, Serbia, New Zealand, Singapore,
Spain, Italy and South Africa.
Field of Vision was created in three distinct
stages, the week long process of building the field begins
with pasting a wallpaper of digitally stitched photographs;
a journey between Shanghai and Beijing. These layers form
the backdrop for a vast collection of over a thousand visual
blogs and as the work evolves, it migrates from billboard
poster to a complex mosaic of overlapping, idiosyncratic perceptions
of China. Field of Vision: Beijing, the culmination of a year’s
work by its artistic director Stephan Hausmeister and the
Gao Brothers in collaboration with a core group of international
artists. The Installation predominantly features work by Chinese
artists brought together by the Gao Brothers. Featured artists
include Cang Xin, Feifei Lu, Han Bing, Ji Shengli (Hei Yue),
Lao Liu (Tian Yi Bin), Fei Liu, Ma Han, Miao Xiaochun, QingQing,
Ye Fu.
