由缘分新媒体艺术空间主办，美国新泽西州罗格斯大学协办，Ellen Pearlman策展的谭力勤数码艺术个展“数码无血”将于2009年6月13日至7月10日在798缘分新媒体艺术空间举行。开幕式定于6月13日（星期六）下午2点举行。此展览为谭力勤教授近年创作的观念动画装置与数码印制系列精品。

力勤教授现为美国新泽西罗格斯州立大学终身教授，北京大学和中国传媒大学兼职教授，美国SIGGRAPH数码艺术画廊评审，SIGGRAPH学生动画竞赛评审主任。谭力勤早年是85美术新潮的活跃分子之一。十几年前，他转入数码艺术领域，独创“数码原始”形式，赢得美国及多国艺术界的一致好评，多次获得国际数码艺术展头奖和金奖。谭力勤曾在世界多所大学发表演讲, 在国际数码艺术展览研讨会和美术馆展出作品。被美国主体媒体称为“数码艺术界的革命性的艺术家”。

力勤教授认为数码是短期有限性的, 而原始是永恆无限的，任何现代数码技术都是可被取代的,而原始观念则永久地保留其自身涵意，今天的现代科技也许是明天的原始技能。力勤教授自称为“数码自然艺术家 ”，认为人类必须改变其原来思维方式来认识一种新的自然。因为它不是一种人类熟悉的实物，而是人类心灵科技虚拟的新空间。

力勤教授主张科技也是创作源泉，因当今科技发展迅猛，而许多新技术导致产生了新的艺术手段和内涵。他认为观念和技术都是数码艺术的核心要素，两者平行俱进，缺一不可。在数码艺术探讨上，他力求观念和技术的两重突破和创新。

力勤教授近一年来兼职于北京大学前卫动画工作室，其作品把现代数码科技与中国几千年的农业工具紧密地结合了起来，采用互动动画的形式来展现他对中国几千年农业文化的当代诠释。

“Digitally Bloodless”——The Solo Exhibition of LiQin Tan

Hosted at the Yuanfen New Media Art Space in 798 art distract from Jun 13th – July 10th 2009, LiQin Tan’s “Digitally Bloodless” solo exhibition will feature his recent conceptual animations installations and digital print series. An opening ceremony will be held on Jun 13th at 2pm 9Saturday) at the exhibition. This exhibition is co-organized by Peking University, Communication University of China, and Rutgers University (USA).

Tan is a tenured professor at Rutgers University (New Jersey, USA), and is currently serving as an adjunct professor of Peking University and the Communication University of China. He has served as the juror of the digital art gallery and as a curator of the Space-Time animation competition at SIGGRAPH. He was one of the key activists during the 85’ art trend of China. More than a decade ago, he transferred to the field of digital art, and since has created the original "Digital-Primitive” form, which has won great acclaim and a number of awards from American and multinational art scenes. He also gives frequents lectures at universities worldwide, and has been called as “a revolutionary digital artist” by mainstream US media.

One way in which Tan thinks about the relationship between primitive and modern technology can be symbolized as “Digital < (Finite) and Primitive  (Infinity)”. He would suggest that any modern technology could be changed or replaced; however, the primitive systems of signification retain their significance. As the ideologies and technologies of society change, today’s state-of-the-art technology will be tomorrow’s primitive skills.

Claiming him as a digital naturalist, Tan states that "Digital-Primitive" artwork should unite human spirit, natural beauty, and digital-prettiness created through digital 3D simulation. Humans have to free their minds and spirit from what they are used to before they can use the complete capability of digital space to create and appreciate digital nature. In a variety of ways, they are determining digital space in the form of the 3D material site that they live in. But digital space is not a material site and intrinsically 3D, as an alternative, digital space is a site for the mind and spirit.

In last year, Tan has led the contemporary animation studio at Peking University. His artwork closely combines the thousand-year-old Chinese agricultural tools with modern digital technology, displaying the contemporary annotation of Chinese agricultural culture of thousands of years through interactive animation.