Primitive Level Signal, digital art by LiQin Tan

May 6, 2012 - PRLog -- “Primitive-Level Signals” - Solo Exhibition of LiQin Tan

Exhibition: June 1 – June 23, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday June 1, 2012, 5 – 9 pm

In his "Primitive-Level Signals" exhibit, Tan presents two of his art series: “Brain Spirit Levels” (2012) and “Burl + 4” (2003-2004).  In the former, Tan uses spirit levels as a signal to describe a natural phenomenon in humans, where human brain development is an equalized procedure. The competing concepts of the brain--whether the battle of the brain's size versus its intellectual capacity, or of its technological versus its spiritual side--are always kept in equilibrium. In the latter art series, Tan presents himself as a digital naturalist, choosing the burl/lava as the natural art form to explore his “Digital-Primitive” theme in a multifaceted and reciprocal process: Making digital 3D images through primitive technology and materials, while also making primitive rawhide/wood/rock art through digital technology.

This exhibition of work consists of spirit-level installations alongside dozens of digital prints on metal, wood, and rawhides. There are also numerous animations projected onto suspended rawhides and LCD monitors displaying separate animations.

LiQin Tan is a co-director and professor of art at Rutgers University-Camden. He has served as a core board member of the Digital Art Committee and as a juror for the digital art gallery at SIGGRAPH.
He was also one of the key activists during the ’85 art trend of China. Since transferring to the field of digital art, he has pioneered the "Digital Primitive” and “Digital Nature” concepts, which have won great acclaim and a number of awards from both the American and the international art scenes.
                               
The exhibition will be on view at the Dalet Gallery, 141 North 2nd Street, Old City, Philadelphia, PA 19106