Hayward Gallery /
Art of Change:
New Directions
from China

Overview

The Hayward Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in London situated by the River Thames. Together with the Royal National Theatre, it’s also known as the Southbank Centre. For the exhibition “Art of Change: New Directions from China”, which took place from September to December 2012, we created a digital archive that covered 130 key events in Chinese art history from 1979 to 2012.

We designed 130 icons, using Chinese traditional colours and Chinese numerals, to navigate the users and let them intuitively explore the archive by year, artist or events in Chinese political history. The icons are programmed to keep moving slowly, following the Yin and Yang theory, in a three-dimensional digital space. The digital archive has joined the collections at the Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong, the Centre for Contemporary East Asian Cultural Studies of the University of Nottingham, the DSL Collection in Paris and Live Art Development Agency in London.