Macao Artists win Gold Medal Award at Glow Shenzhen Light Art Festival
The digital ink generative video art installation “Icy Fire”, created by Professor Lampo Leong and doctoral student Yanxiu Zhao from the Centre for Arts and Design at the University of Macau, won the Gold Medal Award at the “Glow Shenzhen” Light Art Festival held in Shenzhen, featuring a total of 209 public light arts around the city created by artists and art studios internationally.
Lampo Leong and Yanxiu Zhao’s “Icy Fire” is a digital ink generative video art installation measuring 7.5 meters by 4 meters by 4.8 meters. It consists of a large high-definition LED panel and multiple mirrored walls, ceiling and floor. “Icy Fire” is unique in its creativity and concept, completed using contemporary ink on paper, digital ink generative software and AI technology. It depicts the process of glacier melting through the splashing of ink and the artistic language of geometric abstraction, with a gradient of colors shifting from cold to warm. The installation combines sound, digital video, and immersive exhibition settings to allow the audiences to experience and appreciate the innovation and development of classical Chinese ink art in the digital and AI era, at the same time, commenting on the urgency of environmental protection.
This year’s “Glow Shenzhen”, with the theme of “Infinite Illumination”, using a “1+n” model, with 1 main event location (Shum Yip UpperHills and nearby parks) + 29 exhibition locations. “Icy Fire” was installed in the main exhibition venue, UpperHills 3L pedestrian street, opposite the south gate of the Mandarin Oriental Shenzhen. This immersive installation has attracted many visitors and has been praised for its stunning artistic effect.
Lampo Leong is currently a Distinguished Professor, doctoral supervisor, and Director of the Centre for Arts and Design at the University of Macau. He is also a Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri-Columbia in the US and a Visiting Professor at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. His works have been selected for over 450 national or international juried or curated art exhibitions and have won more than 115 awards, including the Red Dot Award: Best of the Best, Gold Award in the American Good Design, Gold Award in the “Creative Quarterly” International Art Competition in New York, and the China National Arts Fund. His works are housed in over ten museum collections, including the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Macao Museum of Art, and have been featured on the covers of publications such as “New Art International” in New York, “Creative Genius: 100 Contemporary Artists” in London, and “Art Frontier” in the United States.
