Modern Approaches to Restoration: The Dispersed Chinese Art Digitization Project

Modern Approaches to Restoration: The Dispersed Chinese Art Digitization Project

Lecture
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5540 South Greenwood Avenue Cochrane-Woods Art Center (CWAC 157)
Add to Calendar 2024-02-05 16:45:00 2024-02-05 18:45:00 Modern Approaches to Restoration: The Dispersed Chinese Art Digitization Project We cordially invite you to join us for our next meeting of VMPEA, taking place next Monday, February 5, from 4:45-6:45pm at *CWAC 157*. This event will be featuring:   Ouyang Zhenyu Lecturer in Fine Arts, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Xi’an Jiaotong University Who will be presenting the paper “Modern Approaches to Restoration: The Dispersed Chinese Art Digitization Project (DCADP)”   *With a light reception to follow in the CWAC lounge*  This is a hybrid event, for Zoom participants, please register at this link (password: 000000). Please see the abstract and bio of our presenter below.   Abstract This lecture will mainly introduce the overall academic concept and research methods of the DCADP project. Through introducing the research achievements and processes of the Zhihua Temple Digital Restoration Project and the Empress Procession Restoration Project in Binyang Central Cave, Longmen Grottoes, this presentation aims to elucidate the value and role of plastic artists and digital technology in the field of art history. Taking the Empress Procession restoration project as an example, this presentation hopes to bring forward discussions on the definition and concept of “restoration” as well as some thoughts on how to accurately interpret the significance and possible application of our restoration research.    Bio Ouyang Zhenyu is a lecturer in the Fine Arts Department in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Xi'an Jiaotong University. He is also advising several Master’s theses and currently a doctoral candidate in the School of Human Settlements and Civil Engineering at Xi'an Jiaotong University. He is a practicing sculptor and has engaged in research on traditional Chinese plastic arts. In recent years, he primarily focuses on research related to the digital restoration and exhibition of Chinese cultural heritage dispersed overseas.   This event is sponsored by the Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago in collaboration with the VMPEA Workshop. 5540 South Greenwood Avenue Cochrane-Woods Art Center (CWAC 157) Department of Art History drupal@seastar.uchicago.edu America/Chicago public
Ouyang Lecture 2-5

We cordially invite you to join us for our next meeting of VMPEA, taking place next Monday, February 5, from 4:45-6:45pm at *CWAC 157*. This event will be featuring:

 

Ouyang Zhenyu

Lecturer in Fine Arts, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Xi’an Jiaotong University

Who will be presenting the paper

“Modern Approaches to Restoration: The Dispersed Chinese Art Digitization Project (DCADP)”

 

*With a light reception to follow in the CWAC lounge*

 This is a hybrid event, for Zoom participants, please register at this link (password: 000000). Please see the abstract and bio of our presenter below.

 

Abstract

This lecture will mainly introduce the overall academic concept and research methods of the DCADP project. Through introducing the research achievements and processes of the Zhihua Temple Digital Restoration Project and the Empress Procession Restoration Project in Binyang Central Cave, Longmen Grottoes, this presentation aims to elucidate the value and role of plastic artists and digital technology in the field of art history. Taking the Empress Procession restoration project as an example, this presentation hopes to bring forward discussions on the definition and concept of “restoration” as well as some thoughts on how to accurately interpret the significance and possible application of our restoration research. 

 

Bio

Ouyang Zhenyu is a lecturer in the Fine Arts Department in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Xi'an Jiaotong University. He is also advising several Master’s theses and currently a doctoral candidate in the School of Human Settlements and Civil Engineering at Xi'an Jiaotong University. He is a practicing sculptor and has engaged in research on traditional Chinese plastic arts. In recent years, he primarily focuses on research related to the digital restoration and exhibition of Chinese cultural heritage dispersed overseas.

 

This event is sponsored by the Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago in collaboration with the VMPEA Workshop.