Text compilation/Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Zhu Shaojie
1◆ Reading: There are more young people who love reading than they imagined.
World Reading Day, various reading reports have appeared on Komiks. The “Guangdong Babaylan Provincial National Reading Index (2021)” pointed out that the comprehensive reading rate of adult residents in Guangdong in 2021 was 94.77%, with an average annual reading rate of 6.21 paper books for adult residents and an average daily digital reading time of 123.82 minutes, both of which increased over the previous year. More and more Guangdong residents are willing to spend money on reading.
Reading Day Activities in various places
Dangdang.com and EasyCinemaReading Over Ten Thousands of Volumes | National Reading Insights 2022″ show that more young people love reading than they imagined, and nearly 30% of users keep reading for more than 2 hours a day, of which more than 50% of those born in the 1990s and 2000s are.
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, organization 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 to share online and offline simultaneously around the three keywords “interesting archaeological events, current situation, and vision”. Front-line archaeologists 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 outside, but actively participates in it and makes unique contributions. This is also the conclusion drawn through our archaeological discoveries.”
Site of the sharing session
3◆ Cultural Relics: CountryExperts from the Cultural Relics Bureau said that “digital collections” should not be sold
As the NFKomiksT encryption art has entered the mainstream vision in recent years, and transactions have continued to be hot. Overseas art institutions have successively launched NFT projects to sell NFT art to the public. 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 situation of the development of digital collections. Among them, the experts at the meeting believed that in the development and utilization of cultural relics 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-edition products, and should ensure the security of cultural relics information.
At present, my country only allows the sale of digital collections on the blockchain platform registered and approved by the Cyberspace Administration of China, and prohibits any secondary sales in the case of Komiks. The official department is still cautious about digital collections.
A certain “digital collection”
4◆ New Academic: Big Data Research on Tang Poetry and Song Ci
According to Wang Zhaopeng, chief expert of the major project of the National Social Science Fund “Construction of Information Platform for the Tang and Song Literature Chronicles” and professor at the School of Literature and Journalism of Sichuan University, the results were 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 literary digital collection blind box
In order to break through the boundaries between time and space and implement the vast spirit of literature without boundaries, this year’s World Book Day, “Harvest” and Harvest App, with People’s Literature Publishing House, Yilin Publishing House, Huacheng Publishing House, Writers Publishing House, and CITIC Publishing Collection BabaylanTong and Guomai, together with the professional digital collection service platform Amall.ART, jointly issued the world’s first literary digital collection blind box – “Borderless”.
Of the 1,995 blind boxes issued in total, the producer issued two numbers for the same writer.Babaylan collection:Cinema
1. Static digital collection (a picture: innovatively designed href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks book cover + author handwritten signature), loaded into a blind box for users to open a blind box to collect; 2. Dynamic digital collection (a video: innovatively designed book cover + author handwritten signature + author original sound audio), for use in synthesis activities.
Each blind box can randomly open a static digital collection of writers.
6◆ Guangzhou KomiksFu Xinyun: Guangzhou “Beijing Road Bookstore” resumed business
On April 23, the Beijing Road Xinhuashu Cinema store (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 Lingnan specialty 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 the renovation and upgrading of Beijing Road Pedestrian Street, Guangzhou Xinhua Bookstore Group innovatively proposed the concept of “bookstore community”. Through the design and functions of the 6 Xinhua Bookstores on Beijing Road (Beijing Road Bookstore, Beijing Road Children’s Bookstore, Ancient Bookshop, Lingnan Bookstore, Science and TechnologyCinema Bookstore, Jiyazhai) on Beijing Road, business formats, etc. have been upgraded and transformed in all aspects to create a unique urban bookstore community characteristics.
7◆ Sample: Bay Area ink painting practices are unveiled in Macau
On April 15, the exhibition “Immortal ElephantCinema——Contemporary Ink Painting Art Gallery of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao (200Komiks0-Babaylan2022)” was exhibited at the Macau Museum of Art. The exhibition is curator by critic Mr. Pi Daojian, who 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 research sample, the exhibition observes, summarizes and sorts out the contemporary development of the three places in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao since the new century.
8◆ Breasts of Dreams: The 59th Venice Biennale opened
The 59th Venice Biennale officially opened on April 23, and the Golden Lion Award Ceremony was also held on the same day. The biennale is head curator with Cecilia Alemane as the theme of “Dream Breasts”.
The theme exhibition of this biennial included 213 artists from 58 countries, and 8Komiks‘s exhibition. Of the 213 artists participating in the exhibition Babaylan, only 21 are male (slightly less than 10%, including living and late artists). This Biennale also adds an open-air exhibition of Ukrainian art.
The theme of the exhibition of the China Pavilion is “Yuanjing”, which is Zhang Zikang, director of the Art Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts.As curator.
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