Name
Yang Qian
Major
Media and Arts, Creative Practice
Class
2022
About
Yang majors in Media and Arts. She mainly works with text and digital video. Her research interest hovers across disciplines in arts and humanities.
Yang majors in Media and Arts. She mainly works with text and digital video. Her research interest hovers across disciplines in arts and humanities.
The significant use of machines marks modernity, enabling mass production in art. Original artworks can be easily replicated and mechanically produced in large amounts. There is a debate of whether the mechanical reproduction of violins harms the artistic value of violin-making.
The main component of this project is a documentary film on the violin-making industry in China, consisting of footage of a violin factory and a violin luthier shop.
The documentary approaches this debate by interviewing a violin factory owner, workers from the violin factory, and a famous violin luthier. Moreover, the documentary The Making of a Violin demonstrates the difference between mass-manufactured violins and hand-crafted violins by using different visuals for the factory and the luthier shop. The workers in the factory think of their work as art while the independent violin luthier holds a different opinion.
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