Panel Statement

Keywords: Creative and cultural industries, Beijing, China, urban space, creative clusters, art parks

Panel: Creativity and Participatory Urbanism in China

Supported by research and policy reform, China’s creative and cultural industries have seen explosive growth in recent years and this rapid expansion is anticipated to have an unprecedented and farreaching influence on the future of the country and its economy. Researchers from Cultural Development Institute (CDI) based at The Communication University of China (CUC) and The College of Fine Arts (COFA) at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) present recently generated data and discuss Beijing as a case study to provide an informed overview of the recent proliferation of art parks and creative clusters in the city.

• Dr. Xiao Yingying, The Culture Development Institute, The Communication University of China, Beijing, China, is an Assistant Professor at the Culture Development Institute (CDI) at the Communication University of China, Beijing. Xiao’s research interests and focus investigates the rapid development of China’s Cultural and creative Industry in particular the burgeoning Chinese television and film culture. She is also Deputy Director of the International Relations Office at CDI and in this role has been instrumental in furthering the links between CUC and UNSW that have led to the formation of this pane presentation at ISEA.
• Dr Jiang Duo, The Culture Development Institute, The Communication University of China, Beijing, China, is an Assistant Professor at the Culture Development Institute (CDI) in Beijing and Executive Editor-in-Chief of “China Cultural Industries Yearbook”, an annual publication that gathers and publishes data documenting the progress and achievements in growth of the cultural and creative industries across all the regions of China where this is occuring. Jiang’s research focus is centred on investigating how the cultural and creative industries might best be fostered in China’s cultural and economic environment. She is a Doctoral Candidate in Media Economics at CUC.
• Ian McArthur, The College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, AU, is a hybrid practitioner and a design academic at the University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts, Sydney. In 2001-2003 Ian was Program Director of Graphic Design at La Salle DHU (Donghua University, Shanghai) where he initiated The Collabor8 Project (C8) an ongoing research platform that fosters creative collaboration between China and Australia. His recent work with Brad Miller (2011 – 2012) utilises granular and generative synthesis, mobile technologies, open source platforms and protocols to create experimental sonifications for responsive media environments that have been exhibited in Australia and China.
• Brad Miller, The College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, AU, is an Artist and Senior Design Academic at University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts; he lives and works in Sydney. With his installations, augment_me, data_shadows and mediated_moments Miller worked with personal photographic memories and associations. During 2011 Miller worked in Shanghai with the multi-disciplinary Design Studio/LAB Rare Earth, was in-residence at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. Miller exhibited installations, plasma_flow and mediated_moments in GeoCity SmartCity: An Exhibition of International Information Design at CMoDA Beijing during Beijing Design Week.

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