Through the creative methods that integrate Eastern and Western concepts and combine a variety of art mediums, such as calligraphy, ink painting, oil painting, photography, digital ink generative video art, interactive installation, and multimedia dance performances, the speaker explores how synthesis of different cultures and media could possibly bring innovation to digital art and promote the advancement of Chinese contemporary ink in the digital era.

Through the creative methods that integrate Eastern and Western concepts and combine a variety of art mediums, such as calligraphy, ink painting, oil painting, photography, digital ink generative video art, interactive installation, and multimedia dance performances, the speaker explores how synthesis of different cultures and media could possibly bring innovation to digital art and promote the advancement of Chinese contemporary ink in the digital era.

Lampo Leong, PhD, Central Academy of Fine Arts, MFA, California College of the Arts, is currently a Distinguished Professor, Doctoral Advisor, and Director of Center for Arts and Design at the University of Macau. Leong is also a Tenured Professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia in the USA and Visiting Professor at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Leong has served as curator and judge for over 60 art exhibitions and competitions, and presented more than 260 lectures across the US and Asia in institutions such as Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and China Academy of Art. Leong’s work has been featured in Christie’s, and in art expos, museums, and galleries worldwide through more than 70 solo and over 410 juried and curated national and international group exhibitions, and has received over 100 awards. Leong’s works can be found in more than ten museums, including the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, as well as public art commissions for Columbia City Hall, and an 8-meter-diameter granite inset calligraphic medallion for a San Francisco city park. Leong’s achievements have been documented in over 1000 reviews and publications in magazines, art books, and on TV internationally, including the front cover of the New Art International in New York, Art Frontier in the USA and the Creative Genius: 100 Contemporary Artists in London.