China News Service, Beijing, January 1 (Reporter Ying Ni) A special event for the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Academy of Arts in Guqin Art and Digital Cultural Creation was held in Beijing a few days ago.

In the context of the integrated development of "culture + technology", this event aims to showcase the latest achievements in digital protection of guqin art through high-tech means, so as to explore more possibilities for digital protection, inheritance and innovation of traditional culture.

  The China Academy of Art is the only national comprehensive academic institution in my country that integrates art research, art education, art creation, intangible cultural heritage protection, and cultural and art think tanks.

In recent years, the China Academy of Art has actively explored the integration and development of traditional culture and modern technology, and innovated the protection, inheritance and dissemination methods of traditional culture with the help of digital information technology.

In 2021, the China Academy of Art and Tencent will cooperate on the digital protection and innovation practice of Guqin Art based on the King Glory Digital IP, which will be open to the public with a wider range of information release, deeper content delivery, and more diverse forms of interaction. —Especially young people popularize guqin cultural knowledge and show the artistic charm of guqin.

Photo courtesy of Lin Chen, representative inheritor of Guqin art, a representative project of national intangible cultural heritage

  As the institution with the most concentrated collection of guqin in the country, the China Academy of Art now has 92 pieces of guqin handed down from generation to generation.

This cooperation focused on the three-dimensional digital collection of 30 courtyard-collected guqins such as "Withered Wood Dragon Yin" and "Mingfeng", and established a three-dimensional image database of courtyard-collected guqins.

This is also the first attempt by the Chinese Academy of Art to collect three-dimensional data from the Guqin collection.

  During the event, a "digital guqin" small program based on the above-mentioned digital collection results was released, presenting the rich collection of the Chinese Academy of Art from the three aspects of the guqin's sound, spectrum, and instruments, and spreading the guqin through interactive H5 pages, knowledge questions and answers, etc. Knowledge and protection concepts, to build it into a professional and popular guqin art display and communication platform.

Experts and scholars present at the meeting

  After the launch ceremony, participating experts and scholars discussed the two topics of "Practical Exploration of Guqin Digital Cultural Creation" and "Digital Protection, Inheritance and Innovation of Traditional Culture", and discussed the protection and inheritance strategies of traditional culture in the digital environment from multiple angles.

Experts believe that the integration and development of traditional culture and digital technology is overwhelming. In this process, it is necessary to stick to traditional genes, guard the root and soul of culture, and strike a balance between content and form.

Only by focusing on the people and disseminating and popularizing traditional culture in a way that the public loves to hear can better meet the people's growing spiritual and cultural needs.

  After the conversation, two famous qin masters from the Chinese Academy of Art, Wu Zhao and Lin Chen, the representative inheritors of the guqin art of the national intangible cultural heritage representative project, took the stage one after another to bring wonderful guqin performances to the guests.

The performance adopts a digital multimedia venue design, and creates an immersive guqin performance space through holographic laser projection and interactive special effects. While enjoying the music, the audience can also experience the three types of "minus-character spectrum", "elephant invisible" and "beyond the string" Interactive installation to further experience the innovative expression of the digital exploration of Guqin art.

  As the application and protection unit of the "Guqin Art" project on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List of Humanity, the Chinese Academy of Art has done a lot of work in the rescue, protection, inheritance and dissemination of the project in recent years, and has achieved remarkable results .

The relevant person in charge pointed out that in the next step, the China Academy of Art will continue to explore the profound connotation of Chinese excellent traditional culture, grasp the pulse of the times, innovate expression forms, activate the inherent vitality of traditional culture and art in a way that advances with the times, and spread its deep implications. The humanistic spirit and value of the times.

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