Education and Art

Reaching Out To Students: DSL Collection aims to expose university and art students to Chinese contemporary art. Starting in 2009, the DSL Collection will be offering a full Master course at Shanghai University’s School of Fine Arts, teaching students about Art Management.

Conferences: DSL Collection participates in conferences, seminars, and talks hosted by institutions or at special events. The DSL Collection has participated in a seminar at Tsinghua and Shanghai Universities. In 2009, we will participate at a seminar at ARCO Madrid 2009 and also at a lecture at New York University.

Developing Communication Tools: DSL Collection produces communication tools, including flyers, the virtual museum and the E-book on DVD, etc. In addition to being passed out personally to a network of curators and art professionals, the DSL Collection is also identifying bookstores, libraries, and art organizations that may be interested to distribute these communication items at different venues.

DslVoiceReader: DSL Collection works with Creative Star Group for develop the DslVoiceReader project. This is a Text to Speech software with natural sounding voices in English and Chinese. It can convert any written text such as MS Word, Web page, PDF files, and Emails into spoken words. It is quick and easy to use. It will be offered free in April.

Promoting multicultural studies with art and education projects in virtual world: a series of art and education projects from around the world will be introduced, with which we aim to highlight educators’ innovative teaching methods envolving latest communication and imaging technology, which effectively enrich students’ cultural experience as well as inspiring their creativity.