1. Pictures of the 3 rd International Art and Science Exhibition and Academic Symposium and Chinese university Damian Hills YI JI

2. Background  The 3 rd International Art and Science Exhibition and Academic Symposium mainly intended to reward innovation talents in art and science. The organizing committee selected over 112 works from 22 countries and regions from 462 works submitted through appraisal by relevant experts.  The works exhibited come in various forms, including scientific works that demonstrate integration of art and science such as new media art, product design, architectural, environmental design, visual communication design and art creation etc.  The theme of the event is “informationecologywisdom”, and is intended to pool together the most frontier research achievements in contemporary international artistic and scientific fields, and gather the pluralistic cognitive concepts and diversified means of demonstration in the current artistic and scientific fields.

3. The opening ceremony of the 3rd International Art and Science Exhibition and Academic Symposium

4.  The opening ceremony of “the 3rd International Art and Science Exhibition” was grandly held in China Science and Technology Museum on the afternoon of Nov. 1, 2012. Over 3000 people comes from 120 universities around the world attended the event.

5. Academic Symposium  In addition to high-end international exhibition of art and science works, the event has also carried out a series high-level symposiums under the theme of “information, ecology and wisdom”. I have had a constructive communication with professor Lu xiaobo who is the chairman of symposiums committee and dean of Academy of Art & Design, Tsinghua

6.  Nearly three hundred experts and scholars from various colleges and universities nationwide also attend the symposium.

7. Pictures of two Chinese universities Tsinghua university China Central Academy of Fine Art (CAFA)

8. Tsinghua university I. Tsinghua is the national center for training engineers, scientists and artists (top 2 in China) II. Tsinghua has 14 schools and 56 departments, 68 research centers (thousand of research funds/y)

9. Tsinghua International Auditorium Tsinghua Teaching Building

10. Tsinghua Art & Sience Gallery

11. I.University now has over 25,900 students, including 13,100 undergraduates and 12,800 graduate students (research based university) Features of University

12. Tsinghua design studios

13. China Central Academy of Fine Art (CAFA) I. A leading institution for modern art education in China II. The only art academy of higher learning directly under the Ministry of Education

14. CAFA Museum

15.  It is composed by six schools, colleges and industries (have a closing relationship with Chinese industry) Features of University

16. CAFA Design Studios

17. Digital virtual lab (large digital LED screen), its funding has been proved by Chinese company

19. I. International academic workshop