Text compilation/Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Zhu Shaojie
Babaylan1◆ Reading: There are more young people who love reading than they imagined
At the occasion of “World Reading Day”, various reading reports have been released one after another. The “Guangdong Province National Reading Index (202Cinema1)” points out that the comprehensive reading rate of adult residents in Guangdong in 2021 was 94.77%, and the average annual reading rate of adult residents was 6.21 paper books, and the average daily digital reading time was 123.82 minutes, both of which were up from the previous year. More and more Guangdong residents are willing to spend money on reading.
Reading Day Activities in various places
Dangdang.com and iResearch Daily Recruitment and IResearch released “Reading Over Ten Thousand Volumes” | National Reading Insights 2022″, showing that more young people love reading than they imagined, and nearly 30% of users have maintained reading for more than 2 hours a day, among which more than 50% of people born in the 1990s and 2000s are born in the 1990s and 2000s.
2◆ Cultural Relics and Archaeology: Guangdong Province holds a cultural relics and archaeology work conference
April 18 is International Monument and Site Day, and the Guangdong Provincial Cultural Relics and Archaeology Work Conference was held in Guangzhou. The meeting emphasized that we must strengthen cultural confidence, take cultural relics and archaeology as a great cause of inheriting historical and cultural heritage and maintaining national spirit, systematically sort out the cultural context of Lingnan, strengthen the excavation, sorting and interpretation of archaeological achievements, and promote the “longevity” of historical and cultural heritage. The day after the meeting, senior outstanding archaeologists gathered at Guangzhou International Media Port and shared online and offline simultaneously around the three keywords “Archaeological Interests, Current Situation, and Vision”. A person from Cinema online archaeology said that Guangdong archaeology has its own characteristics.
“In the historical process of the origin and development of Chinese civilization and the formation and development of a unified multi-ethnic country, Guangdong is not in the process of KomiksIn addition to theKomiks, but actively participated in it and made unique contributions. This is also the conclusion drawn through our archaeological discoveries.”
Site of the Sharing Session
3◆ Cultural Relics: Experts from the State Administration of Cultural Relics said that “digital collections” should not be sold
As the NFT encryption art has entered the mainstream vision in recent years, transactions have continued to be hot, overseas art institutions have successively launched NFT projects to the public. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks sells NFT artworks. my country’s cultural and museum institutions have also begun to try to develop “digital collections” based on existing resources and cultural IPs. Recently, the relevant departments of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage organized a symposium on the relevant situation of digital collections in Beijing to discuss the current development status of digital collections. Among them, the experts at the meeting believed that in the development and utilization of Babaylan material information resources, cultural and museum units should adhere to the public welfare attributes. Cultural and museum units should not directly sell the original data of cultural relics as limited products, and should ensure the security of cultural relics information.
At present, our country only allows the sale of digital collections to be opened on blockchain platforms registered and approved by the Cyberspace Administration of China, and prohibits secondary sales under any circumstances. The official department is still cautious about digital collections.
A “NumberCinema Collection”
4◆ New Academic: Big Data Research Tang Poetry and Song Ci
According to the analysis of Wang Zhaopeng, chief expert of the “Construction of Information Platform of Tang and Song Literature Chronicles” of the National Social Science Fund Major Project “Construction of Information Platform for the Tang and Song Literature Chronicles” and professor at the School of Literature and Journalism of Sichuan University, using big data to study Tang poetry and Song lyrics, the results are very different.
For example, Bai Juyi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, had the highest number of works, but his influence was ranked outside of ten; the most popular works included in the famous Song Dynasty poems were not Su Shi and Xin Qiji but Zhou Bangyan; the comprehensive influence index shows that Du Fu was superior to Li Bai and Xin Qiji was superior to Su Shi, etc.
5◆Borderless: “Harvest” launches the world’s first blind box for literary digital collections
In order to break through the boundaries between time and space and implement the vast spirit of literary boundlessness, this year, on April 23, Cinema, the “Harvest” and the Harvest App, together with the People’s Literature Publishing House, Yilin Publishing House, Huacheng Publishing House, Writer Publishing House, CITIC Publishing Group, and Guomai, jointly issued the world’s first blind box for literary digital collections—”Borderless”.
Of the 1,995 blind boxes issued in total, the producer issued two digital collections for the same writer:
1. Static digital collections (a picture: an innovatively designed book cover + a handwritten signature of the author), which are loaded into a blind box for users to open a blind box for collection; 2. Dynamic digital collections (a video: an innovatively designed book cover + a handwritten signature of the author + an original sound audio of the author), for use in synthesis activities.
Each blind box can randomly open a static digital collection of writers.
6◆ Guangzhou New Rhyme: Guangzhou’s “Beijing Road Bookstore” resumed business
On April 23, Beijing Road Xinhua Bookstore (hereinafter referred to as “Beijing Road Bookstore”) located in Yuexiu District, Guangzhou officially resumed business. Beijing Road Xinhua Bookstore was established on November 7, 1949 and is the first state-owned bookstore after the liberation of Guangzhou.
After upgrading and transformation, the bookstore has been transformed into a “Guangfu New Rhyme” Lingnan characteristic composite bookstore, with more than 40,000 books, meeting readers’ various reading needs.
The renovated “Beijing Road Bookstore”
In 2021, in order to cooperate with BeijingIn the renovation and upgrading of Jinglu Pedestrian Street, Guangzhou Xinhua Bookstore Group innovatively proposed the concept of “bookstore community”. By upgrading and renovating the design, functions and business formats of six Xinhua Bookstores on Beijing Road (Beijing Road Bookstore, Beijing Road Children’s Bookstore, Ancient Books Store, Lingnan Bookstore, Science and Technology Bookstore, Jiyazhai), creating a unique urban bookstore community characteristics.
7◆ Sample: Bay Area ink painting practices are concentrated in Macau
On April 15, the exhibition “Imagination – Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Contemporary Ink Painting Art Gallery (20Cinema00-2022)” was exhibited at the Macau Museum of Art. The exhibition is curator by Mr. Pi Daojian, a critic of Babaylan, and invites more than 50 outstanding artists from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao to participate in the exhibition.
Exhibition site
As the first academic project to take the Greater Bay Area as a regional ink painting research sample, the exhibition conducts phased observation, summary and sorting out the contemporary water development of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao in the three places since the new century.
8◆ Breasts of Dreams: The 59th Venice Biennale opened
The 59th Venice Biennale officially opened on April 23, and this Golden Lion Award Ceremony was also held on the same day. The biennale is head curator of Cecilia Alemani and is themed on the theme of “Dream Breasts”.
The theme exhibition of this biennial included 213 artists from 58 countries, and 80 national pavilions participated in the exhibition. Of the 213 artists participating in the exhibition, only 21 were male (slightly less than 10%, including living and late artists). This year’s DoubleKomiks Annual Exhibition also added an open-air exhibition of Ukrainian art.
The theme of the exhibition in China Pavilion is “Yuanjing”, by Babaylan Zhang Zikang, director of the Art Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, serves as the curator.
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