https://www.scmp.com/rss/507511/feed ReNew Vision blazes new trail for art and culture with technology. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Artists have long celebrated the beauty and power of the natural world. But as concerns grow over global warming and the melting polar ice caps, rising levels of toxic smog polluting cities and deadly wildfires ravaging forests, they have become increasingly vocal about safeguarding the planet. They are now using art, theatre, dance and music as platforms to call for change and urgent action to tackle the climate-change problems threatening the Earth’s future before it is too late. We wanted to... https://www.scmp.com/presented/lifestyle/arts-culture/topics/when-artworks-click/article/3108245/holograms-award-winning?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/lifestyle/arts-culture/topics/when-artworks-click/article/3108245/holograms-award-winning?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 10 Nov 2020 01:00:24 +0000 https://www.scmp.com/presented/lifestyle/arts-culture/topics/when-artworks-click/article/3108271/how-virtual-reality?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/lifestyle/arts-culture/topics/when-artworks-click/article/3108271/how-virtual-reality?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 04 Nov 2020 10:00:13 +0000 Technology’s impact on the world of music – through decades of evolution of instruments, tools and other equipment – saw the Beatles and producer George Martin, and the Beach Boys all experimenting in the mid-1960s with things such as sampling, multitrack recording machines and tape-delay double tracking. A decade later Queen created its groundbreaking, six-minute operatic rock song Bohemian Rhapsody, featuring multiple overdubbed harmonies. How artist has turned forgotten Hong Kong novels into... https://www.scmp.com/native/lifestyle/arts-culture/topics/when-artworks-click/article/3106128/how-has-covid-19-helped?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/native/lifestyle/arts-culture/topics/when-artworks-click/article/3106128/how-has-covid-19-helped?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 20 Oct 2020 08:31:29 +0000 Literature has long inspired other art forms. Nineteenth-century painter Sir John Everett Millais famously depicted, on canvas, the tragic death of Shakespearean character Ophelia, in Hamlet, in his eponymous painting. Many of the longest running Broadway shows such as The Phantom of the Opera, Wicked and Les Miserables were all inspired by literary classics. In 2010, a “sculptural” book called Tree of Codes was published, created by bestselling American author Jonathan Safran Foer, who cut up... https://www.scmp.com/native/lifestyle/arts-culture/topics/when-artworks-click/article/3105641/how-artist-has-turned?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/native/lifestyle/arts-culture/topics/when-artworks-click/article/3105641/how-artist-has-turned?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 16 Oct 2020 06:30:13 +0000