Brain Garden – The 5th Zhijiang International Youth Art Festival 2023 & Chinese Academy of Art (CAA) Graduation Season kicked off both online and offline on June 1, with an opening ceremony at Wulin Square, Hangzhou. The festival features a wide variety of online and offline artistic shows and activities centered on the future and youth. 

The Youth Art Festival is presented online on CAACOSMOS and West Lake Sky Screen and offline at six venues, namely Zhejiang Exhibition Hall, West Lake Art Museum, Zhejiang Art Museum, World Tourism Museum (1368 Xiangxi Road), Quan Shanshi Art Centre, and Yichuang Town, with a total exhibition area of nearly 70,000 square meters. Over 3,000 works from more than 2,500 Class of 2023 graduates (including 1,766 undergraduates, 688 masters, and 97 doctors) are showcased. Over 2,000 young artists, designers, writers, and scholars have gathered online for this youthful art event. The Youth Art Festival allows the graduation season to be enjoyed by all outside the campus, inspiring the public with art 

This year's theme is Brain Garden. The garden represents an age of innocence envisioned by humans. An educational institution is certainly a garden. Learning in an art academy is not an experience of carefree roaming in a garden, but a journey of working with nature and growing with beauty. 

In an era where human brains and machine brains simulate each other, and human intelligence competes with artificial intelligence, art has become a "brain garden". In the post-pandemic era, amidst the turbulence of excessive generation of AIGC, we call on everyone to nurture their own "brain garden" and summon forth the arrival of spring. Let the flowers of youth bloom and let the artistic creativity flow.  

Source: ELIA