Prof. Danqing Shi is a digital media artist, designer, and educator, teaching at the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, and serving as the director of Academic Affairs, and the deputy chief of the Information Art & Design Dept. Centered around Interaction Design and New Media Art, Danqing Shi dedicates himself to in-depth studies of interactive digital exhibition design as well as the wide exploration of large-spanning interdisciplinary innovation, forming a “T-shaped” research framework:
1. Interactive Space Design for Immersive Exhibitions
He is specifically interested in media architecture as a narrative pace for interactive exhibitions and museums and explores the mixed reality design of physical and digital space. As the chief designer, He led Tsinghua University’s design team and won many important design competitions and carried out such as the 2015 Milan Expo China Pavilion, Forbidden City Duanman Digital Palace, and Microsoft Beijing Innovation Center. And during 2010-2012, he worked as a computational designer at ART+COM Studios in Berlin and played important role in many projects such as Micropia in Amsterdam, King Abdulaziz Centre for World Culture, etc.
2. Interdisciplinary Exploration based on New Media Art
Danqing takes the artistic expression of data as the breakthrough point for interdisciplinary innovation across new media art and cutting-edge science. He and his research team is exploring the crossover between space art & Aerospace Technology， ecological digital art & environmental science， public art & new materials, etc. The interdisciplinary artworks were exhibited and awarded at world-class new media art platforms in China or overseas, such as the Ars Electronica Festival, the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, and the Art and Science International Exhibition Beijing.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Information Art & Design / Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 2016 - 2020
MFA Digital + Media / Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA, 2007 - 2009
BA Digital Media Art / Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China, 2002 - 2006
EMPLOYMENT
Associated Professor / Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 2017 - 2020
Visiting Scholar / Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing China 2013 - 2014
Lecturer / Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 2011 - 2017
Computational Designer / ART+COM, Berlin, Germany, 2010 - 2012
Critic Lecturer / Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA, 2010
Academic Talks
11/2022 Moderator: International Symposium on “Interstellar Migration and Distant Homeland” ICADE 2022
10/2022 Talk: CUBE Co-creation Conference at Beijing Design Week, “The ‘True’ Universe: Outer Space as a New Frontier for Art Design”
09/2022 Talk: Science and Art Symposium of the Beijing Association for Science and Technology, “Data-driven Ecological Environment Perception and Artistic Expression”
10/2021 Talk: Sino-German Art Museum Conversations: Collection, Digitization and Cultural Identity Forum hosted by the Goethe-Institute, Germany, “Fictional Narrative and Experience Displays upon the Underlying Scientific Logic”
10/2021 Talk: Chinese Congress on Artificial Intelligence – Artificial Intelligence and Artistic Computing Special Forum “Computational Artistic Expression between Fiction and Reality”
11/2021 Talk: 2021 International Conference on Design Futures, “The ‘True’ Universe: Outer Space as a New Frontier for Art Design”
11/2021 Moderator: International symposium “New Experience under the Mixed View of Time and Space” ICADE 2021
11/2020 Panel Moderator: 2020 International Conference on Design Futures
09/2019 Talk: AR for Education Panel at the Cannes Lions Creative AR Summit
10/2019 Talk: Nature’s Wisdom: China-Africa Design Forum, “Future Zoo – New Media Art Links Humans and Nature”
11/2019 Talk: Boao Cultural and Creative Forum & Culture Industry Expo, “Parallel Worlds – Immersive and Interactive Learning Space”
08/2017 Talk: 4th International Congress of Positive Psychology, “Situational Interaction: Bringing Language Learning back to Its Nature”
09/2015 Talk: Global Innovator Conference of the APEC Business Advisory Council, “Psychological Experience in Interactive Media Space”
07/2015 Talk: 2nd International Congress of Positive Psychology, “Psychological Experience in Interactive Media Space”
09/2014 Talk: Smart City Forum, Beijing Design Week, “Planning and Design of Smart City Experience Center”
11/2013 Talk: 3rd ICID Symposium “Interdisciplinary Teaching and Practice Based on New Media Art”
12/2013 Talk: 2013 SIGGRAPH Asia (Singapore), “From Computer Aided Art to Computational Art”
10/2012 Talk: Chinagraph’ 2012 (Chengdu), “Interactive Display Design of Digital Cultural Heritage Combined with Physical Media”
09/2012 Talk: Interactive Beijing Forum, Beijing Design Week, “Interdisciplinary Studies Based on New Media Art”
08/2012 Talk: 2012 Berlin Electronic Technology Conference European Commission, “Research Design and Production Market of China’s Parametric Products”
07/2012 Judge: Art Gallery of the 2012 SIGGRAPH Asia (Hong Kong)
05/2012 Judge: International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment.
Exhibitions
01/2023 “Garden of Parallel Evolution”, A World of Coexistence – 2022 Jinan International Biennale (exhibition), Shandong Art Museum, Jinan.
11/2022 “Data Water Maps – Song of Oujiang River”, 2022 Oujiang River Landscape Poetry Road Image Art Exhibition, Zhejiang Museum, Hangzhou
04/2022 “Ice Planet”, Nurturing the Future Together: Olympic Science, Technology and Art Exhibition, Tsinghua University Art Museum, Beijing
10/2021 “Cosmusica” Sci-Ficene: Art and Science Concept Exhibition, May 2021, Shougang Park NO.3 Blast Furnace Museum, Beijing
08/2021 “Millennium Wheel”, permanently installed and displayed at the Xiong’an High-speed Railway Station
08/2020 “Digital Ice Sculpture Park”, Winter Olympics Beat: 5G+8K Digital Ice Art Exhibition, Beijing,
09/2020 “The Silk Road Landscape Map Digital Art Exhibition”, Palace Museum, Shimao Group, Maritime Silk Road Museum, Fujian.
12/2019 “Future Zoo", Mirror & State Art and Science Concept Exhibition, Tsinghua Academy of Arts & Design Museum, Beijing
09/2016 “The Night Revels of Han Xizai Digital Scroll” Ars Electronica 2016, Campus Exhibition, Linz, Austria.
09/2017 “MetaLife”: The Fifth China Changchun World Sculpture Conference Exhibition, Changchun China.
05/2015 “Field of Hope”: China Pavilion at Milan World Expo, Milan, Italy
09/2014 “The Collider”: Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Awards
16/2022 “Cosmusica ”, Grand Prize, China-US Young Maker Competition, Ministry of Education
04/2016 A Moment Shared by All: A Moon-based Sundial Outstanding Creativity Award, the Chang’e 4 Creative Payload Contes.
12/2015 The 11th Top Ten Outstanding Youths in China’s Design Industry, Nomination Award
07/2014 “Last Clock”, Jussi Ängeslevä, Philipp Bosch, Ross Cooper, Danqing Shi, Prize for Artistic Innovation, AppArtAward, ZKM, Germany
05/2010 “Avatar Morphing Station”, OBIE Award, Golden Prize
Patents
02/2022 D. Shi, A. Zhao, H. Yao, CN215867770U: Immersive interactive system based on CAVE environment
04/2022 X. Li, G. Yu, P. Gao, Y. Wang, D. Shi, CN216363721U: One-piece bathing suit for astronauts in a zero-gravity environment
01/2021 D. Shi, F.Xian, CN112215963A Online exhibition method and device for simulating the 3D effect
12/2017 D. Zhang, D. Shi, H. Mi, CN105205317B A method and device for reflecting the degree of cooperation of at least two participants