Minshu Chen 陈旻姝

Minshu set up a digital library of Dong brocade in collaboration with the Cultural Tourism Laboratory as the background. As the Dong don‘t have a native script, Dong patterns are a record, transmission and expression of their culture. In order to stabilise and inherit its information patterns within a specific geographical and ethnic cultural gene, she collected and selected digitised patterns, analysed the visual semantics of the cultural gene, described and classified them through coding and created a digital archive, as a modern way of preserving the diversity of traditional intangible cultural heritage, while also promoting its development and its application in a more active way.

By using digital processing to deconstruct and regenerate the Dong traditional folk cultural heritage of Dong brocade, this collection also explores new techniques for experimenting with 3d printing on different materials. The control variables were used as experimental methodology to adjust the temperature of each layer during printing, the material feed, the XYZ axis, the speed, etc. and to modify the hot bed to control different fabrics. On this basis, a wide range of traditional 3d crafts such as cro-stitch, embroidery, weaving, etc. are presented. A re-telling of the visual representation of the Dong ethnic motifs through a combination of modern digital technology and traditional art forms.Describing the story of traditional artistic heritage in the context of the new technological revolution and its integration and balance with modern culture opens up opportunities for new relationships and dialogue.Thus promoting the need to revisit and regenerate intangible cultural heritage in the face of changing times and technologies, just as treating endangered resource need to reconsider the process of alternation and transformation.