New Media And The Variety Of Chinese Contemporary Art

Media, as a primary and fundamental carrier of art practice, should be treated as one of the core problems during the research of art theories and art creation. Today, the importance of media power is emphasized unprecedentedly. Artists express their doubt to traditional aesthetic objects by various forms and cross-border creation of contemporary art, such as experimental arts, comprehensive installation, video art and digital new media. These media pay more attention to forms than to content, which bring a lot of problems and controversial judgments to developing Chinese contemporary art. On one hand, it takes the update of art expression as its symbol; On the other hand, it causes rethinking about art noumenon in art history. These new media enlarge the space of art expression, and even affect the reflection of social thoughts. We begin to explore what the art is. Whether should art have a bottom line? What's the value of art?In the research of new media art, the first question is:Whether does it mean a form of art which rejects traditional art media, such as oil paint and sculpture materials, or something else? This is a prerequisite for the study of new media art language. To answer this question, this paper tries to elaborate new media art in the dynamic process of contemporary art starting from historic linear logic, and treats contemporary art as a historic contemporary concept which is different from narrowly defined art form required by formerly usual practice and specific aesthetics. To answer this question, this paper steps out of arguments of complicated concepts and tries to analyze the information of forms, technology, and concept which coved by Chinese contemporary artists and their works. Based on the media application of Chinese contemporary art, this paper will refine the question of art media noumenon from the development process of Chinese contemporary art, which includes questions of media and concepts, media and technology, media and aesthetics, media and ideologies. It has practical significance to the research of Chinese contemporary art. It restores the new media application which is relatively closer to the reality of history in the development process of contemporary art and different from the traditional art history, such as comprehensive materials, bodies, ready objects, installation, video, photography, digital technology, and network media and so on. Moreover, it researches the function and effects of these media application when art noumenon is involving into evolution of social thoughts so as to make basically reasonable judgment and orientation to Chinese contemporary art.