Professor Tan Liqin  lectures at GAD

展览海报

Exhibition poster

On October 25, Professor Tan Liqin was invited to give a lecture on "Science and Technology Intelligence will Reconstruct Artists, Art and Creativity". Professor Tan Liqin is currently a professor at Rutgers University in the United States. From participating in the Chinese 85 art movement to proposing singularity art, he has been engaged in the forefront of work, pioneering art creation and theoretical research for nearly 40 years. He is an advocate and experimenter of world singularity art. Lin Zijie, Dean of GAD, Li Heng, Director of Visual Communication and Digital Media programme, as well as the instructor Zhang Lulu and Yang Yanyan, who took students majoring in visual biography and digital media, attended the lecture.

 

讲座现场

Lecture scene

 

讲座以“什么叫奇点”开题，向学生介绍了目前我们所处的时代和未来即将面对的生存和创作环境。让学生明白当人类的智能逐渐非生物化，其智能程度远远高于今天的智能的情况下，我们必须转变自己的思维方式，不是线性思维，而是“指数思维”，学会用未来指导现在。谭力勤老师从“艺术家自身的重构”、“艺术环境的重构”、“艺术材料的重构”，“创造力的重构”和“艺术及审美的重构”五个方面，解释了科技智能对我们的影响以及今后设计的发展走向。

The lecture begins with "What is Singularity". It introduces students to the present age and the future living and creative environment they are facing that let students understand that when human intelligence is gradually non-biological, its intelligence is much higher than today’s intelligence, we must change our way of thinking, not linear thinking, but "exponential thinking", learn to use the future to guide the present. Professor Tan Liqin explained the influence of scientific and technological intelligence and the development trend of design in the future from five aspects: the reconstruction of artists themselves, the reconstruction of artistic environment, the reconstruction of artistic materials, the reconstruction of creativity and the reconstruction of art and aesthetics.   

教师合照

Teacher group photo

 

讲座提问环节，谭教授与学生对强人智能；作为学习艺术和设计的学生，如何从事科技工作以及合作问题；在奇点艺术的过程，有关道德、伦理、法律等问题展开了深入地探讨。开云在线网址 邀请谭力勤老师担任客座教授并颁发证书。此次讲座开阔了学生了思维，在开拓眼界的同时，让每个学生思考在这样一个即将超越人类极限的时代，他们应该怎样发挥自己的创作力，以及为此做出哪些知识技能的准备。

During the lecture, Professor Tan and  students discussed the issue of strengthening human intelligence, how to engage in scientific and technological work and cooperation as a student of art and design, and the issues of morality, ethics and law in the process of singularity art. GAD also invited Professor Tan Liqin as a visiting professor and presented certificates.   While broadening their horizons, this lecture allows each student to think about how they should develop their creativity and what knowledge and skills they should prepare for in an era that is about to surpass the limits of human beings.