LiQin Tan / 谭力勤

Tan has portrayed his inventive and autodidactic energy as an artist, educator and researcher for five decades while teaching in China, Canada, Singapore, and the U.S.A.

Tan is a Professor of Art and former Co-Director of the Department of Visual, Media & Performing Arts at Rutgers University–Camden. He has served as an Executive Committee member of the SIGGRAPH Digital Art Committee in the United States and has chaired both the Art Gallery Senior Review and the Student Animation Review. As an early contributor to China's influential '85 Art Movement, he has played a pivotal role in bridging artistic dialogue between East and West.

With over 45 years devoted to avant-garde art and theoretical research, Tan is internationally recognized for his pioneering integration of conceptual art with digital technology. His "Digital-Primitive" interactive animation installations have received numerous international honors, including first prizes and gold medals in digital art. His large-scale solo exhibitions have toured globally, with notable presentations at the China Millennium Monument, the Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, and Beijing's 798 Gallery and Songzhuang Art Museum.

A leading figure in art futurology, Tan has for nearly two decades been an early advocate and educator in AI art, Bio Art, and VR art in both China and the United States. His research investigates the evolution of art in the age of technological singularity, spanning conceptual animation, interactive installation, animation pedagogy, and contemporary art criticism.

Tan has authored numerous academic papers and published influential books, including Singularity Art, Subversive Biological Art, and Concept and Technology, as well as the collections Numerical Natural Art and Tan LiQin Digital Art Collection II. He is currently at work on three forthcoming volumes: Art Futurology, Invisible Art, and Quantum Art.