“Origin”

The predecessor of "COMART International Digital Art Biennial Yearbook : 2023 - 2024" was the "D-ARTS Annual Sharing PPT" that we would share and release every year. Over the past decade, the digital art industry has witnessed vigorous development. We have been focusing on sharing and collecting cutting-edge works, concentrating on industrial information and the latest news, and building a bridge for knowledge exchange.

Since 2016, D-ARTS has released an annual collection yearbook that gathers outstanding digital art works from around the world every year (named in the format of "D-ARTS Annual Sharing PPT + year"). From its inception to 2025, a total of 7 issues have been released. It has accompanied the growth of batch after batch of practitioners in the digital art industry, has been highly praised in the industry, is deeply recognized by professionals, has received numerous favorable comments, and has attracted extensive attention from all walks of life. It has already become a shiny calling card for the digital art industry.

▲ "Digital Art Network Annual Sharing PPT - 2021"

▲"Digital Art Network Annual Sharing PPT - 2022"

The "D-ARTS Annual Sharing PPT" pioneeringly carried out very detailed classification and summarization according to the forms presented by technological applications & works, as well as the applied industries & fields. Moreover, it has been continuously improved and iterated in line with the development of the industry and the constant changes in the market.

Every year, we carefully select from a vast amount of materials and files, and finally include more than 100 outstanding works that possess both excellent quality and broad representativeness. Adhering to the concept of works that combines depth and breadth, namely "Appealing to both refined and popular tastes, Connecting the abstract and the concrete", we implement the screening process based on the carefully constructed "Pentagon of Good Works" standard.

Five Dimensions:

• Powerful dissemination ability ensures that works can reach a wide range of audiences.
• A broad audience scope reflects the universal appeal of works.
• Extraordinary aesthetics highlights artistic charm.
• Cutting-edge creativity, exquisite techniques and bold innovation demonstrate the core competitiveness of works.
• And outstanding sensory experiences fully mobilize the perception nerves of the audience.

In this way, we can accurately target those excellent works that meet the needs of the times and lead the development of the industry, and present the most valuable reference examples for colleagues in the industry.

Thanks to such manuscript selection requirements and the consistent adherence to free submissions and the absence of advertising pages, the purity and high quality of this material have been ensured every year. It has become one of the earliest and pioneering treasure materials for industry enlightenment and the popularization of industrial knowledge in the digital art industry, and has played a positive role in assisting academic research, industry insights, industry exchanges, spreading the digital art industry and promoting industrial development.

According to incomplete statistics, the materials shared every year can obtain tens of millions of exposures across the entire network, millions of reads, hundreds of thousands of reprints and shares for dissemination, and tens of thousands of downloads.

▲ Click to view the access methods for previous issues.

Policies

In the current era, the global science and technology and cultural industries are accelerating their integration. As a brilliant pearl among them, the digital art industry is shining with its unique luster and showing a strong momentum of vigorous development, especially in China.

The rapid development of science and technology has brought new opportunities for cultural construction and artistic creation. In particular, the emergence of new art forms such as digital art has made cultural supply more diversified and cultural consumption more robust.

In recent years, the state has attached great importance to the digital transformation and innovative development of the cultural industry and has introduced a series of far-sighted policy measures. From the "14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of the Cultural Industry" to the "Opinions on Promoting the Implementation of the National Cultural Digitalization Strategy", and then to the "Opinions of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism on Promoting the High-Quality Development of the Digital Cultural Industry" and other documents, the important position of the digital art industry in the national economy and cultural construction has been clearly defined, pointing out the direction for its development and providing a solid policy guarantee. These policies aim to promote the in-depth application of digital technologies in all aspects such as artistic creation, production, dissemination, and consumption, encourage the cultivation of new cultural business forms and cultural consumption patterns, facilitate the cross-border integration of the digital art industry with other industries, and enhance the national cultural soft power and the competitiveness of the cultural industry.

▲ Screenshots of some relevant policy documents.

Under the impetus of such favorable policies, remarkable achievements have been made in China's digital art industry. It is widely applied in multiple fields such as cultural tourism, museum exhibitions, popular science education, architectural design, entertainment experiences, and stage performances. Not only have a large number of outstanding digital art works come into being, but also a batch of digital art enterprises and innovative platforms with international influence have emerged. The industrial scale continues to expand, and the innovation vitality keeps growing, becoming a new driving force for economic growth and a new engine for cultural prosperity.

"COMART International Digital Art Biennial Yearbook: 2023 - 2024" emerged precisely under such a background of the times.

Introduction to COMART

The first edition of "COMART International Digital Art Biennial Yearbook: 2023 - 2024" (hereinafter referred to as "Digital Art Biennial Yearbook") is scheduled to be released on April 30, 2025. Its predecessor is the well-known "D-ARTS Annual Sharing PPT + Year (Annual Almanac of Outstanding Global Digital Art Works)" (hereinafter referred to as "D-ARTS Annual Sharing PPT") in the industry.

During the process of sorting, collecting and compiling, we adhered to an objective, rigorous, professional and innovative attitude, and widely incorporated the wisdom and strength from all parties, striving to make this yearbook an outstanding work in the digital art industry.

However, due to the rapid development of the digital art industry and its extensive coverage, it is inevitable that there are some deficiencies. We sincerely look forward to valuable comments and suggestions from readers of all sectors, so that we can jointly contribute to the prosperous development of China's digital art industry and march towards a glorious future of the digital art industry hand in hand.

The content covered by the "Digital Art Biennial Yearbook" is particularly rich. What it includes are not only 100 outstanding and benchmark works and projects carefully selected from tens of thousands of works and projects around the world, but also, to the greatest extent possible, various global awards & lists & selections, exhibitions, large-scale events, data reports & white papers, social organizations at or above the provincial and municipal levels, majors in colleges and universities, in-depth excellent articles, as well as industrial policies and guidance documents of governments at all levels that are closely related to the digital art industry.

Compared with the "D-ARTS Annual Sharing PPT", the "Digital Art Biennial Yearbook" has specially added an "Evaluation & Awarded Section", which mainly consists of two major units and 18 sub-items. The two major units are respectively the enterprise & institution & brand & individual category and the project & work category.

In addition, the "Digital Art Biennial Yearbook" will also invite 1 - 2 government departments in charge of the digital art industry, national official associations, and well-known colleges and universities as guiding units & academic guiding units. It will invite dozens of well-known platforms & media & enterprises and institutions inside and outside the industry as co-publishers & producers to participate in in-depth cooperation. Moreover, it will also invite many experts, scholars, well-known entrepreneurs, artists, and celebrities in the industry to give recommendations and messages.

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Attention

The "COMART International Digital Art Biennial Yearbook: 2023 - 2024" will be released globally in both Chinese and English versions. Therefore, each "co-creator" is required to provide one copy of the corresponding bilingual materialsrespectively , including but not limited to: abbreviated names of enterprises in Chinese and English, enterprise introductions, introductions to works and cases, personal names and personal introductions, etc.

The following will introduce the five co-creation methods, namely submission, participation in evaluation, joint release, recommenders & institutions, and yearbook sponsors one by one. We sincerely invite you to participate in it.

How to Submit?

The online registration, submission & evaluation entry will be announced at the end of February2025.The offline channel has been opened today.You can contact 🔎数艺网小白 for consultation.

▲ Wechat ID：shuyiwang2019 ▲

Section One：

"Selected 100 Global Digital Art Works & Benchmark Projects in 2023 - 2024"

Submission targets:

Domestic and foreign enterprises, institutions and individuals can all sign up in the capacity of individuals or institutions. In principle, there are no restrictions on nationality, ethnicity, age, institutional scale, personal occupation and so on.

Involved fields:

There are no limitations on the forms of works & projects, the use of technologies, themes, application fields, etc.

▲ Overview of Forms

▲ Application fields

Requirements for Submitted Content:

Fill in the information required for submission and registration truthfully and accurately, such as the name of the work & project, introduction, location, completion time, duration of existence, creative team, and so on.

（1）Picture materials

(unlimited in quantity, must be high-definition pictures with a resolution of 1080P or above. It is especially preferable to have pictures related to behind-the-scenes, relevant creative design techniques, or on-site work photos).

（2）Video materials

(at least one high-definition main video. The number of supplementary videos is not limited depending on the circumstances. It is especially preferable to have behind-the-scenes videos or exclusive interview videos).

In principle, it is required that the works and projects must have been completed and implemented, and the completion/implementation time should be within the period from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2024.

Source of materials:

It is preferred to submit content with your own copyright. If external materials are used in the submitted and evaluated content, you must note the source of the materials and the situation regarding the usage authorization to avoid copyright disputes.

Inclusion Criteria:

D-ARTS and the expert review committee of the biennial yearbook will conduct research and review on the submitted cases. Adhering to the fundamental concept of catering to both refined and popular tastes as well as integrating the abstract and the concrete, we will then screen and select them by comprehensively considering five dimensions, namely dissemination ability, audience scope, aesthetics, creativity & technology & innovation, and sensory experience. The final selection will be made by combining the opinions of various experts. After the review is passed and the inclusion is confirmed, an inclusion receipt will be sent to you via text message or other means.

Fees:

Submission is free of charge, and inclusion is also free of charge.

Section Two：

Digital art industry-related content review

Submitted Content:

Submit the registration application online and complete the filling in of relevant content. For details of different sections, please refer to the form. For the offline channel, you can contact and consult🔎数艺网白展堂（Wechat ID：shuyiwang2019）

Inclusion Principles

For the content of this section, we will follow the basic principle of "collecting and recording everything that should be collected and recorded" without missing any valuable information. Meanwhile, we will conduct a comprehensive and all-round evaluation and meticulous screening based on multiple key factors such as the breadth of influence, the strength of dissemination power, and the level of authority. Once your submitted content passes the review and is officially confirmed for inclusion, we will immediately send you an inclusion receipt via convenient and efficient communication methods like text messages so that you can be informed of the result at the earliest time.

Entry for Evaluation

The online registration, submission & evaluation entry will be announced at the end of February 2025.The offline channel has been opened today.You can contact 🔎数艺网小白 for consultation.

▲ Wechat ID：shuyiwang2019 ▲

3 units

18 sub-items

Selection Principles:

The evaluation criteria will take into comprehensive consideration multiple core dimensions, including the performance strength and brand awareness at the institutional level, personal achievements and influence in the personal category, as well as product quality, sales volume, industry reputation and contributions to the industry. All these factors will be weighed comprehensively to reach a final conclusion.

Fees:

Registration for participation in the evaluation is free of charge. If the evaluation is successful, the cost for the evaluation will be charged: CNY¥3,000.00 per item. After the review is passed and the successful evaluation is confirmed, we will contact you via telephone, text message, WeChat or other means and handle the follow-up matters.

All major industry media and platforms related to the digital art industry are welcomed to participate in the joint release of the "Digital Art Biennial Yearbook", including but not limited to many fields such as cultural heritage, architecture, design and creativity, art display, convention and exhibition, film and television, cultural tourism night tours, AR/VR, themed entertainment, commercial real estate, event public relations, and immersive industries.Meanwhile, enterprises and institutions with self-media resources in the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain are sincerely invited to join in and jointly promote the yearbook.

Participation methods：

Please fill in and submit the form [scan the QR code below] or copy the link and open it in a web page: （https://www.d-arts.cn/cooperate_sign/com_index.html). After receiving the application, the Digital Art Network will send you the invitation letter and receipt for the joint publisher according to the contact information you left.

▲ Become a "co-publisher"▲

Material information：

The joint publisher is required to provide the short and full names (in both Chinese and English) of the media, platforms and enterprises, a brief introduction within 150 characters (in both Chinese and English), vector or high-definition logos (two kinds, suitable for light and dark backgrounds), etc.

Cooperation rights and interests：

• Your name, introduction, logo and other information will be published in the yearbook.
• And your brand will be simultaneously displayed in the PDF electronic version, web version, as well as in various promotional tweets and promotional materials.
• You will obtain the right to have the simultaneous first release of the official release tweets of the "COMART International Digital Art Biennial Yearbook: 2023 - 2024" together with nearly a hundred other domestic and foreign joint publishers. And you have the right to delete the body content of the release and write relevant abstract content that conforms to your own publicity on the basis of ensuring that the main body content and key content of the text remain unchanged.
• You can attend relevant activities related to the "COMART International Digital Art Biennial Yearbook: 2023 - 2024" for free, such as the expert review meeting (as an observer), the yearbook release conference, the award ceremony (with VIP seats), relevant touring promotion activities, etc.
• Other related rights and interests.

Here, we would like to express our deepest gratitude in advance for the support you may provide! Your participation as a "recommender / institution" is not only a high recognition of our team's continuous efforts, but also injects powerful impetus into the booming digital art industry, inspiring more people with lofty ideals to devote themselves to it and jointly create a bright future!

If you are willing to become a "recommender / institution", please fill in the following form [scan the QR code below] or copy the link and open it in a web page: https://www.d-arts.cn/cooperate_sign/per_index.html.

Hong Bin, the founder & CEO of the Digital Art Network and the initiator of the Digital Art Biennial Yearbook, will contact you directly. Your support will endow the yearbook with stronger authority and make it a benchmark leading the industry!

▲ Become a "referrer&institution"▲

We would like to express our gratitude to all the "sponsoring partners" for your long-term financial support, which reflects your recognition of the value of our D-ARTS and the "Digital Art Biennial Yearbook". Thanks to this, we have been able to devote ourselves to the production of the "Annual Sharing PPT" for seven consecutive years and are currently preparing to upgrade and release the "COMART International Digital Art Biennial Yearbook". We promise that we will not let down the trust of all our "Friends of D-ARTS", and high-quality services and returns of rights and interests will follow.

If you are willing to become a "yearbook sponsor", please fill in the following form [scan the QR code below] or copy the link and open it in a web page:

https://www.d-arts.cn/cooperate_sign/sponsor_index.html.

style="text-align: center;">▲ Become an "sponsor"▲

We believe that the "COMART International Digital Art Biennial Yearbook: 2023 - 2024", which will be released globally for the first time, will build a bridge for you with more potential customers and partners and continuously create the value that all parties expect.

Advertising Rights and Interests:

• The official promotional articles of the "Digital Art Biennial Yearbook" will be gradually released in the next few months on nearly 100 professional media and platforms at home and abroad (including joint publishers and cooperative media), and will continue to generate a large number of related news reports.
• The electronic version of the "Digital Art Biennial Yearbook" will be distributed to more than 8,000 domestic and foreign institutional users and over 250,000 individual users on the D-ARTS platform, and will be open for free application and acquisition by hundreds of thousands or even millions of potential users covered by the cooperative parties.
• For the first batch of the hardcover printed version of the "Digital Art Biennial Yearbook", 5,000 copies are planned for printing. The advertising content of sponsors can be displayed in the form of pictures and texts, header and footer LOGOs, etc. either before or after the main text content of the yearbook, and will be synchronously presented in an appropriate manner on the PDF electronic version and the web version.

Other Rights and Interests:

• Attend relevant activities derived from the "Digital Art Biennial Yearbook" for free, such as the expert review meeting (as an observer), the yearbook release conference, the award ceremony (with VIP seats), relevant touring promotion activities, etc.
• Relevant honorary certificates of the "Digital Art Biennial Yearbook".
• Evaluation fees (enjoy certain discounts or free quotas).
• Other additional rights and interests can be further negotiated.

不妄“数”大招风，

但求“艺”路有你！

We don't seek excessive attention just because of our achievements in the digital art field,

but we sincerely hope that you can accompany us all the way on this artistic journey!