Danqing Shi

As a digital media artist, designer, researcher and teacher, Danqing Shi’s trajectory started from experimental films. During his undergraduate study in Central Academy of Fine Art (China), he integrated his architectural and literary interests into cinematic expressions. In 2009, he received his master degree from Rhode Island School of Design (USA), Digital+Media Dept. where he expanded his exploration to programming and interactive art. He developed series of networking games as platforms of generative storytelling. After the graduation, he taught at RISD in the joined course between Digital+Media Dept. and Architecture Dept. on the subject of “Self-organized Urbanism” which exploreed varies digital media influences in urban design. In 2010, Danqing Shi moved to Berlin and worked as a computational designer in ART+COM AG. He designed and implemented many interactive experience spaces for high-profile clients. Through those commercial projects , he was interested in organically merging interactive technologies with architectural space.

Danqing Shi returned to China in 2012, and started lecturing at Tsinghua University (Beijing China), Academy of Arts & Design and conducting interdisciplinary program and research combining the academic resources from both the art and science fields.He specifically interested in media architecture as a narrative or gamified space for exhibitions and museums. As the chief designer, Tsinghua University’s design team won many important design competitions, such as: 2015 Milan Expo China Pavilion, Forbidden City Duan Palace digital Museum, Microsoft Beijing Innovation Center. His media art works are also get selected and reward, such as Ars Electronica Austria, ZKM Germany etc. His papers were published on journals such as Leonardo and ACM Ubicom 2011. He also juried in many international conferences, such as Siggraph Asia 2012, and ACE (International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology).