由緣分新媒體藝術空間主辦，美國新澤西州羅格斯大學協辦，Ellen Pearlman策展的譚力勤數位藝術個展“數位無血”將於2009年6月13日至7月10日在798緣分新媒體藝術空間舉行。開幕式定於6月13日（星期六）下午2點舉行。此展覽為譚力勤教授近年創作的觀念動畫裝置與數位印製系列精品。

力勤教授現為美國新澤西羅格斯州立大學終身教授，北京大學和中國傳媒大學兼職教授，美國SIGGRAPH數位藝術畫廊評審，SIGGRAPH學生動畫競賽評審主任。譚力勤早年是85美術新潮的活躍分子之一。十幾年前，他轉入數位藝術領域，獨創“數位原始”形式，贏得美國及多國藝術界的一致好評，多次獲得國際數位藝術展頭獎和金獎。譚力勤曾在世界多所大學發表演講, 在國際數位藝術展覽研討會和美術館展出作品。被美國主體媒體稱為“數位藝術界的革命性的藝術家”。

力勤教授認為數位是短期有限性的, 而原始是永恆無限的，任何現代數位技術都是可被取代的,而原始觀念則永久地保留其自身涵意，今天的現代科技也許是明天的原始技能。力勤教授自稱為“數位自然藝術家 ”，認為人類必須改變其原來思維方式來認識一種新的自然。因為它不是一種人類熟悉的實物，而是人類心靈科技虛擬的新空間。

力勤教授主張科技也是創作源泉，因當今科技發展迅猛，而許多新技術導致産生了新的藝術手段和內涵。他認為觀念和技術都是數位藝術的核心要素，兩者平行俱進，缺一不可。在數位藝術探討上，他力求觀念和技術的兩重突破和創新。

力勤教授近一年來兼職于北京大學前衛動畫工作室，其作品把現代數位科技與中國幾千年的農業工具緊密地結合了起來，採用互動動畫的形式來展現他對中國幾千年農業文化的當代詮釋。

“Digitally Bloodless”——The Solo Exhibition of LiQin Tan

Hosted at the Yuanfen New Media Art Space in 798 art distract from Jun 13th – July 10th 2009, LiQin Tan’s “Digitally Bloodless” solo exhibition will feature his recent conceptual animations installations and digital print series. An opening ceremony will be held on Jun 13th at 2pm 9Saturday) at the exhibition. This exhibition is co-organized by Peking University, Communication University of China, and Rutgers University (USA).

Tan is a tenured professor at Rutgers University (New Jersey, USA), and is currently serving as an adjunct professor of Peking University and the Communication University of China. He has served as the juror of the digital art gallery and as a curator of the Space-Time animation competition at SIGGRAPH. He was one of the key activists during the 85’ art trend of China. More than a decade ago, he transferred to the field of digital art, and since has created the original "Digital-Primitive” form, which has won great acclaim and a number of awards from American and multinational art scenes. He also gives frequents lectures at universities worldwide, and has been called as “a revolutionary digital artist” by mainstream US media.

One way in which Tan thinks about the relationship between primitive and modern technology can be symbolized as “Digital < (Finite) and Primitive  (Infinity)”. He would suggest that any modern technology could be changed or replaced; however, the primitive systems of signification retain their significance. As the ideologies and technologies of society change, today’s state-of-the-art technology will be tomorrow’s primitive skills.

Claiming him as a digital naturalist, Tan states that "Digital-Primitive" artwork should unite human spirit, natural beauty, and digital-prettiness created through digital 3D simulation. Humans have to free their minds and spirit from what they are used to before they can use the complete capability of digital space to create and appreciate digital nature. In a variety of ways, they are determining digital space in the form of the 3D material site that they live in. But digital space is not a material site and intrinsically 3D, as an alternative, digital space is a site for the mind and spirit.

In last year, Tan has led the contemporary animation studio at Peking University. His artwork closely combines the thousand-year-old Chinese agricultural tools with modern digital technology, displaying the contemporary annotation of Chinese agricultural culture of thousands of years through interactive animation.