Today Art Museum planns extensive activities every weekend, including seminar, themic salon, artistic work, interaction between parents & children, small-scale performance and so on. These activities bring people closer to art from the perspective of art & culture. The participators will have chances to enjoy cultures, to relax and to receive spiritual cultivation.
- Today BBS previews | The whole view of DNA, explore the future of art and life
- Type:Listen –Art & Culture Lecture
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Host: today art museum
Speakers: Tim yip, Yu Jun, Alex Gao
Start time: 16:30, April 28, 2019
End time: 17:30, April 28, 2019
Where: 4th floor, hall 1, today art museum
Activist:
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"Tim yip: the whole view" has been held in today art museum for nearly two weeks, triggering more and more audience's thoughts on future art and science, future life and spirit and other topics. In this exhibition, artist ye jintian integrated art and science, proposed the concept of "spiritual DNA", and integrated his multi-dimensional discovery and philosophical thinking of time, space and life science into his artistic creation.
In the three-month exhibition period of "Tim yip: the whole view", today art museum, together with Tim yip studio and science and art research center, specially launched the series BBS with the theme of "the life of everything". BBS brings together famous artists, top scientists, science fiction masters and public knowledge from home and abroad. They will start from their respective fields of interest and carry out in-depth discussion and cross-border communication around the theme of "future thoughts and science and art".
▲ The spirit of DNA
The first edition of "everything in life BBS - full view of DNA" will be held at today art museum on April 28, 2019. The guests who will attend the BBS are artist ye jintian, Chinese genomics scientist yu jun, director gao peng of today art museum, and CAI xiao, founder of science and art research center, will be the host of BBS.

▲ Robot Lili

▲ Exhibited works - "spiritual DNA"

▲ Exhibition site

▲ Exhibited works - "brain"

▲ Exhibit - "antimatter"
BBS guest

Tim yip
As a world-renowned visual artist, costume designer and film and stage art director, Tim yip constantly practices his "new orientalism" aesthetic concept and interprets the inspiration of ancient culture for the future. In 2001, Tim yip became the first Chinese artist to win the Oscar for best art direction and the bafta for best costume design for crouching tiger, hidden dragon.
Since 2002, yip has held exhibitions in China, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, the United States and other places. In recent years, the individual large-scale exhibitions include the silence, illusion (Beijing today art museum), the dream, crossing, between "three shadows photography art centre (Beijing caochangdi)," In the Parallel Parallel "amiens cultural center (France)," Tim yip: manifold "museum of contemporary art (Shanghai, China), the Cloud Cloud (south London art center)," Tim yip: blue (China Hong Kong HKDI Gallery).

Yu Jun
Distinguished researcher of Chinese academy of sciences, doctoral supervisor of Beijing institute of genomics, well-known expert in genomics, bioinformatics and genetics. He graduated from jilin University (78 biochemistry) in 1983. In the same year, he was admitted to the institute of biophysics of the Chinese academy of sciences for postgraduate study, and was awarded the CUSBEA scholarship. After receiving his PhD in NYU in 1990, he worked as a research assistant professor. In 1993, he joined the department of genome science, university of Washington (Seattle), and participated in the international human genome project, engaged in genomics and bioinformatics research, and developed related scientific experimental equipment and instruments.
Dr Greenwood, formed in 98, after returning from genomics, Chinese academy of sciences, Beijing genomics institute, participate in and presided over the international human genome project (China), and the super hybrid rice, silkworm, chicken, dates, ginseng, carp and other large-scale genomic research program, two served as chief scientist at the national 973 plan. So far, more than 320 scientific papers have been published in major international journals including Nature and Science. He was awarded the qiushi outstanding achievement award (2002) by the Hong Kong qiushi science and technology foundation, the Chinese academy of sciences outstanding achievement award (2003), and the third world academy of sciences award for contribution to agricultural science (TWAS, 2012). In addition, Dr. Yu jun has cultivated a large number of outstanding talents in genomics and bioinformatics for China, which has played an important role in promoting the development of genomics in China and is one of the main founders of this field in China.

Alex Gao
Director of today art museum, studied in central academy of fine arts, university of the arts London successively, obtained bachelor's degree to doctor's degree, and post-doctoral degree in Peking University. He has been the deputy manager of cultural landscape of the 29th Olympic organizing committee, the deputy chairman of "friendly China" international association, and the chairman and head of greater China region. As the planning and execution of several domestic and foreign art exhibitions, constantly exploring the operation mechanism of sustainable development of private art museums, and introducing "future museum -- laboratory" into the operation mechanism of art museums, these series of attempts and practices have pioneered the new media field of domestic art museums. In 2015, he was co-chairman of BBS "global outstanding youth" in davos economy and was awarded the title of "global outstanding youth -- artistic emissary". Winner of the "Beijing May 4th medal" in 2015, member of the professional committee of art museum of China association in 2018, vice President of Beijing youth art development promotion association.
BBS host

Cheng Xiao
He is the founder of science and art research center and the scientific consultant of China science popularization press. He won the "best business citizen award" and "cross-border integration award" of bloomberg businessweek, EMBA of school of economics and management of tsinghua university, MPhil of school of communication of Hong Kong Baptist university, and BA of school of journalism of wuhan university.
BBS information
BBS theme
Complete view of DNA
BBS date
April 28, 2019
BBS time
16:30 - 17:30
BBS site
4 / f, hall 1, today art museum
Participate in the way
free
(note: admission to the BBS venue is required for the "Tim yip: a complete view" exhibition)
BBS seats
First come, first served
You are welcome to stand or sit on the floor when the seats are full