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Blackbow Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for AI Track of Go 2.0 Interactive Performance in Performing Arts, Stage, Style and Scenery Design
Blackbow honored for performing arts, stage, style and scenery design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 28, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ AI Track of Go 2.0 Interactive Performance by Blackbow has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Performing Arts, Stage, Style and Scenery Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
More About AI Track of Go 2.0 Interactive Performance
AI Track of Go 2.0 is an interactive stage performance based on the traditional Chinese board game of Go. The performance combines dance with artificial intelligence and holographic projection. The stage is formed as an L-shaped holographic box built with a projection net curtain, projectors and a fusion system. The complete experience lasts three minutes and includes a dance sequence of two and a half minutes. The projected background moves from Chinese landscape painting to stars and algorithmic worlds. Visitors can also enter the holographic box to take photographs.
About Blackbow
Joe Wang founded the creativity-driven company Blackbow in 2010, and since 2010, he and his team have been applying the concept of "art + technology" to live performances, travel experiences, and new media interactive marketing. Blackbow acted as an important part of the new media production and design for the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Award Record
With this recognition, Blackbow is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Performing Arts, Stage, Style and Scenery Design Award
The A' Performing Arts Design Award is an international competition recognizing excellence in set, stage, and performing arts design by top designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to performing arts designers, set designers, theater architects and costume designers from all countries. Typical entries include choreography, dance moves, theatrical sets, dance costumes, stage lighting and opera props. The awarded performing arts designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/performing-arts
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/128004
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/128004
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!128004
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/294934
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.blackbow.cn/work/tencent-tgc-festival-2020/
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- AI Track of Go 2.0 Interactive Performance
- Function
- Interactive Performance
- Category
- Performing Arts, Stage, Style and Scenery Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Arts and Entertainment
- Colors
- Black, Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray and Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Blackbow
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #128004
Credits
- Team
- Beijing Black Bow Cultural and Creative Production Team, Joe Wang, Yujia Cao, Shan Jiang, Sijia Li, Xiaowei Zhang, Jingyan Li, Nuoqiu Wang, Jiayi Lin, Wenya Yi, Xinya Zhang and Yinghua Qiu and others
- Image Credits
- IP belongs to Tencent Board
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- AI Track of Go 2.0 is a digital art performance where art technology and traditional Chinese culture collide on the stage. The interactive performance based on Tencent's AI Fine Art and holographic technology a clever fusion of traditional Chinese culture and the most advanced technology, an inspired interweaving of artistic aesthetics and competitive strategies, and a perfect choreography of human dancers and artificial intelligence systems.
- Inspiration
- In Chinese culture, Go is not only an intellectual sport, but also a humanistic tradition. Combining Tencent Games' concept of conveying Chinese Go culture and wisdom through modern digital technology with the combination of Taoist dialectics and the use and contemplation of gaming, the performance of dancers interacting with artificial intelligence is presented in a clever double space, with one real and one imaginary board form, inspired by ancient Chinese paintings.
- Research
- In order to be able to better reproduce the performance of the art of Go, the art of Go was restored as much as possible, from the design of the stage venue to the dance and projection content. From the basic Go set, to the study of famous historical Go games and ancient paintings of the Tang Dynasty, all add to the artistic expression of the content. In addition to this there is the study and representation of the cosmic stars and data algorithms that link cultural history to the digital world.
- Challenge
- Cultural Innovation: Breakthrough heritage of Chinese traditional culture in the digital age. Technological challenge: The use of artificial intelligence technology and holographic projection technology in performing arts. Performance Innovation: Innovation of the interaction mode between digital technology and human performance.
- Realization and Technology
- Technology: Holographic Projection Box Materials: Projection net curtain, Projector, Fusion system
- Operation and Interaction
- The complete experience lasts three minutes, and the dance performance lasts two and a half minutes. From the screen subtitles to the actors' appearance, surrounded by the traditional Chinese landscape painting screen background to the astral universe, from technical tools to human philosophies, and finally into the algorithmic world and digital civilization, completing the transformation from the traditional link to the technological universe. In the free time after the performance mode, the audience can enter the holographic box in photo mode to take pictures for memory.
- Project Duration and Location
- November 19, 2020 Wanlv Park, Haikou, Hainan Province, China
- Specifications
- AI Track of Go 2.0 is divided into two modes: performance mode and photo mode. About 20 people can watch the dance performance at the same time in performance mode, and about 25 people can experience it at the same time in photo mode. By the connected sides to L-shaped around the performance stage - holographic box. The structure of the top of the viewing corridor is optimized to retain the frame structure of the viewing corridor, and the top is replaced by a wooden structure with a soft material.
- Keywords
- AI, Light interaction, Immersive experience, Holographic Projection, Digital Performance, Chinese Traditional Culture
