From Tradition to Visualization: Using Digital Media Art to Reinterpret Intangible Cultural Heritage in China
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Digital media; Cultural heritage; China; Intangible.Resumo
The digital media art has integrated with the intangible cultural heritage (ICH) of China due to technological progress and heightened cultural awareness. Virtual reality (VR), interactive visualization, and animation are some digital tools that are being applied to preserve and creatively reinterpret traditional cultural forms. This paper will investigate how digital media art can be used to preserve and redefine the ICH of China based on existing literature. It looks at how digital technologies have helped the maintenance, reinterpretation, and reformulation of cultural heritage. It was a qualitative research design with the use of a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) to review articles written between 2020 and 2025. Databases such as JSTOR, Elsevier, and SpringerLink were used, and the search was conducted using Boolean operators to narrow results. A search was narrowed down to 12 relevant studies based on inclusion and exclusion criteria. Digital media technologies (VR, AI, 3D visualization) were mentioned as some of the most important means of restoring and reshaping the ICH in China. They increase access and interactivity and cultural continuity, especially among the young generation. The digital technologies also contribute to the creativity of cultural reinterpretation and provide international channels to the ICH. This paper demonstrates that digital media art has a critical role in the preservation and novelty of the Chinese intangible cultural heritage, and it has the potential to enhance cultural interactions and access more and more, and to ensure the cultural traditions are relevant in the contemporary setting.
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