The picture shows Xiang Yanli introducing the "Construction of Guizhou Shiju Ethnic Minority Art Big Data Visualization Network Communication Platform" at the launch ceremony of the project. Courtesy of respondents
Guiyang, China News Network, January 4 Title: Guizhou university team rooted in national art to promote the integration and innovation of tradition and modernity
Reporter Zhang Wei
"Guizhou ethnic minority culture and art is both traditional and fashionable. Science and technology connect national culture and art, so that the world can see colorful Guizhou! Xiang Yanli, head of the collaborative innovation team of information art design and ethnic culture digitalization of Guizhou University for Nationalities, said her New Year's wish in an exclusive interview with a reporter from China News Network on the 4th, and the National Arts Fund Communication and Exchange Promotion Platform Construction Project "Guizhou Shiju Ethnic Minority Art Big Data Visualization Network Communication Platform" that she presided over is turning the wish into reality.
Xiang Yanli is a Tujia girl from Enshi, Hubei Province, and what makes her more embarrassed is that she has not been deeply impressed by the Tujia family since she was a child. "Whenever someone knows that I am a Tujia family, they are always asked if they can speak tujia and sing Tujia songs?" Xiang Yanli told reporters, "Except for the ID card that can prove that I am a Tujia family, I have not even worn the traditional ethnic costumes of the Tujia family." ”
Data chart: "Guizhou Shiju ethnic minority art big data visualization network communication platform construction" mobile client APP. Courtesy of respondents
Fortunately, Xiang Yanli began a wonderful university study trip in Guizhou, and during her time in school, Xiang Yanli was deeply attracted by the splendid and colorful original ethnic culture. "Walking into the countryside of Guizhou, you will see many ethnic minority compatriots dressed in their own national costumes, simple and natural." Xiang Yanli said that this "beautiful" feeling was something she had never experienced before.
Xiang Yanli, who studied animation digital design, germinated the idea of protecting and inheriting this "beauty", and as early as 2013, he presided over the Guizhou Provincial Science and Technology Department project, which used digital technology as a way to protect and inherit intangible cultural heritage, and used motion capture technology to record the movement space data of Anshundi opera performers, breaking the traditional data collection methods such as traditional photography and video.
In 2014, Xiang Yanli was sent by the Chinese Ministry of Education to william Paterson University of New Jersry as a visiting scholar, and several stories that occurred during this period made Xiang Yanli more determined by her career dream of "connecting national skills with science and technology and letting the world see colorful Guizhou".
Data chart: "Guizhou Shiju ethnic minority art big data visualization network communication platform construction" PC-side three-dimensional website. Courtesy of respondents
During her time in the United States, Xiang Yanli's favorite thing to do is to visit museums and art exhibitions, many of which combine science and technology with national culture and art, and use virtual reality technology, VR and other new ways to convey excellent traditional national culture and art, which makes her greatly inspired. The work of one of the school's sculptors and teachers surprised Xiang Yanli even more, "At that time, from a distance, it looked like a messy wire coiled together, which at first glance made people a little inexplicable." After Xiang Yanli walked in, she found that many students were watching with mobile phones, "Scanning and watching this sculpture through mobile phones is actually the Milky Way, which is the application of AR technology." ”
Xiang Yanli said that the national cultural and artistic heritage has witnessed the development of the history of human civilization, and its importance has been widely valued. Relying on their unique advantages in national cultural and artistic heritage, countries around the world have successively built a series of colorful digital national cultural and artistic heritage resources, and through the development and construction of digital platforms, they can provide the people from all walks of life with the opening and sharing of national cultural and artistic heritage resources.
Inspired by this, Xiang Yanli decided to try to show Guizhou's national culture and art in the form of big data visualization. After returning to China, Xiang Yanli, with the support of Guizhou University for Nationalities, formed a team to apply for the National Arts Fund project. "Initially, I did it with a try-and-try mentality, and the teachers and students in the school were very supportive." Xiang Yanli said, "Young people should not be afraid of failure, if we do wrong, we can start all over again." ”
In 2019, presided over by Xiang Yanli and declared by Guizhou University for Nationalities, the construction project of the communication exchange and promotion platform "Guizhou Shiju Ethnic Minority Art Big Data Visualization Network Communication Platform Construction" stood out from more than 9,000 application projects submitted by China after expert review, and won the 2019 annual funding of the National Arts Fund, becoming the first new media project in Guizhou to receive the national art funding.
Relying on the project, Xiang Yanli and her team grew up rapidly, "We use the mentality of 'play' to do, 'play' out of new things, so that the national culture of Guizhou can be spread out, so that more friends at home and abroad can accept." ”
The team "Little Test Cow Knife" used AR technology to produce a batch of digital cultural and creative products of "Guizhou Welcome to You", and the interactive display method made it shine at the 2018 China National Double Creation Achievements Exhibition, becoming a "blockbuster" product, and hundreds of sets of industries were sold out three days before the exhibition. "There were a lot of people lining up to buy it, and even a few children pooled their money to buy a set of products." This greatly encouraged Xiang Yanli and her team, "which proves that our ideas work, and 'national culture + tourism + big data' can bring new selling points." ”
However, the road to scientific research is not always smooth, in early 2020, the sudden outbreak of new crown pneumonia caused the project to be suspended for several months; the team's students also left because of graduation, and it took longer for new people to join; after the project worked normally, Xiang Yanli unfortunately broke her knee during a fieldwork.
After unremitting efforts, on December 22, 2021, the National Arts Fund Communication exchange and promotion platform construction project "Guizhou Shiju Ethnic Minority Art Big Data Visualization Network Communication Platform Construction" was launched online. The project takes the excellent traditional culture and art of 17 hereditary ethnic minorities in Guizhou as the research object, and uses big data visualization technology to digitize and model the culture and art of the ethnic minorities in Guizhou, fully integrating the latest Internet information technology and big data technology.
The project team studied the art of ethnic minorities in Guizhou from four categories: silver jewelry, clothing, architecture, and opera masks, and adopted fieldwork and big data reptile mining techniques. Through multi-channel excavation, thousands of guizhou ethnic minority art graphics and patterns were sorted out, and they were sorted into a library, and three network platforms were used for dissemination and promotion using mobile app app, PC-side three-dimensional website, and social platform.
Experts believe that the research results are innovative achievements in the deep integration of Guizhou's national culture and art and science and technology, and a strong driving force for Guizhou's national culture and art to move towards a high-quality development track. The project research is conducive to promoting the external publicity of guizhou ethnic minority culture and art, and will play a strong role in promoting guizhou's social and economic development.
"The further we go, the more scientific art becomes, and so does science." The two parted at the foot of the mountain and turned back to meet at the summit. Art and science are both different and interrelated, inserting scientific and technological wings into national culture and art, and making national culture and art go to the world. Xiang Yanli said that in the future, she will continue to work hard and move towards a higher goal.
"Just as our team set up the main purpose of this project at that time - technology connects national art and lets the world see the colorful Guizhou, we have been working tirelessly towards this goal." Xiang Yanli hopes to use the Internet information technology means to disseminate ethnic culture and art, to spread the story of Guizhou well and spread the good voice of Guizhou through the network of ethnic minority culture and art; on the other hand, it also transmits positive energy by promoting the excellent traditional culture and art of the nation, and through the integration of multi-ethnic culture and art with science and technology, it will cast a solid sense of the Chinese national community.
In the future, Xiang Yanli and her team will take the intersection of arts and sciences and the combination of art and technology as the main teaching characteristics, focusing on the field of digital media and information interaction design, and cultivating art and design composite innovative talents with interdisciplinary cross-vision. At the same time, relying on the advantages of Guizhou Province's rich ethnic cultural resources, taking the research direction as the guide and the project as the starting point, we will work together to promote the integration and innovative development of Guizhou's multi-ethnic culture in the era of digital economy, and use modern information technology means to achieve the synchronization of Guizhou national culture and the development of the new era. (End)