Exhibition
ORIENTAL ODYSSEY
OUTERNET LONDON
About
Digital Art Show
From 15 to 20 June 2025, the Oriental Odyssey Digital Art Exhibition was successfully held at Outernet London, a newly established cultural landmark in London. The exhibition was jointly organised by the Global Youth Leadership Laboratory,Perfect World Digital Art and UKYAA.
This six-day immersive exhibition employed cutting-edge technologies, including virtual reality and artificial intelligence, to reinterpret the cultural DNA of the East. It constructed a dialogue between traditional aesthetics and digital innovation, positioning itself as a notable case of how Chinese culture can be reimagined and presented on the global stage through digital means.
The exhibition was centred on the curatorial concept of “revitalising traditional culture through digital technology”, bringing together a series of pioneering works that integrate intangible cultural heritage with emerging technologies.
Dynamic Dragon-Pattern Glazed Tile, inspired by Ming dynasty glazed dragon tiles from temples in Shanxi, employed AIGC generative models alongside Kinect-based motion capture to construct an interactive three-dimensional environment. Audience movement activated rippling light patterns, while manual adjustments to the transparency of the dragon scales gradually revealed the underlying mythological totem.
Consort AR Opera Costume Experience, referencing costumes from The Drunken Concubine held at the Mei Lanfang Grand Theatre, used augmented reality to enable participants to virtually “wear” the nü mang opera robe. This allowed audiences to engage directly with the visual language of Peking Opera, particularly the phoenix and peony motifs that signify imperial elegance.
The digital animation Reimagining “Admonitions of the Court Instructress” brought figures from the classical scroll by Gu Kaizhi to life. Characters appeared to step out of the painted surface into a traditional Chinese courtyard, where the interplay between cyberpunk aesthetics and classical ink linework reinterpreted the cultural atmosphere of the Jin dynasty.
