Digital art as a new art form has had a tremendous impact on contemporary art trends in the last decade. The Digital-Natural Art catalog is one of few personal digital art collections published in the world. The significant concepts, newly-created artwork procedures, masterful digital techniques, stunning artwork installations, and art-forms in this catalog will provide to all interested in modern art a fresh new look. The book may be used as a valuable reference source for contemporary artists, animators, film makers, art students, educators, & more.

LiQin Tan, art professor at Rutgers University (USA), established his inventive and creative energy as a digital artist, teacher, and researcher over many decades while residing in China, Canada, Singapore, and the U.S.A. Recently acclaimed as a “revolutionary artist” by art media, Tan is the recipient of a number of awards and high praise in reviews of his digital work both nationally and internationally.

While Digital-Natural Art is a collection of Tan’s contemporary fine-arts-animation and digital rigid-substrate printings, it also includes eight articles that critically assess his art. The visual creations of “Digital-Natural Art” consist of 3D animation/modeling images that are digitalized on rawhides, woods, and rocks. Additional images are projected onto rawhides/woods through the use of digital projectors from opposing angles. Each work in the series is accompanied with 3D animation through a group of LCD monitors and convex mirrors.

Digital-Natural Art has received accolades from the International Digital Media and Arts Association (USA). In addition, New York City’s highly-acclaimed art critic Bill Zimmer states that “Tan’s creations have been considered and adopted as a new art form and category for contemporary art.” Ed. McCormack, the Chief-Editor of Gallery & Studio Magazine in New York City proclaimed Tan’s artwork as “An innovation that may yet prove as influential to future generations as the work of the pioneering video artist Nam
June Paik.”