Recently, the results of the 2025 Asian Vanguard Art and Design Award (AVADA) were announced. This competition is characterized by its professional authority, international vision, impartial evaluation, and support for realization. Since its launch, it has attracted active participation from designers, university faculty and students, and art practitioners from countries and regions including China, South Korea, Spain, Poland, the United Arab Emirates, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore, serving as a platform that embodies the diversity and internationalization of Asia's young design power.
Students from the School of Innovation, Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, stood out among over 4,000 entries from dozens of countries and regions worldwide, winning multiple awards with their outstanding design innovation concepts. In this edition's evaluation, the School of Innovation, Hubei Institute of Fine Arts achieved the following outstanding results:
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Works Category
Gold Award
Work: Twelve Faces of Nuo
Authors: Ma Qianyi, Jiang Xinyan, Qin Jiaxin, Liu Qiantong
Instructor: Tian Suna
Work Description:
Inspired by the traditional Nuo opera culture, this work reinterprets the twelve Chinese zodiac signs using AI technology. By integrating digital art with traditional Chinese culture, it creates a fantastical world that blends ancient mystique with a futuristic technological sense. The work preserves the cultural core of Nuo opera—warding off evil and bringing good fortune—while reconstructing its visual expression through the language of technology. The twelve digital zodiac figures seem to have traversed from ancient times, completing a contemporary digital exhibition within cyberspace, showcasing the new vitality of traditional culture in the era of artificial intelligence. Nuo opera masks are not merely patterns; they represent a visible history of China's traditional intangible cultural heritage.
Twelve Faces of Nuo Work Showcase | Twelve Faces of Nuo Award Certificate
Excellence Award
Work: EDT / GEN / EXT / SVR (Edit / Gene / Extinction / Survivor)
Author: Qian Yifei
Instructor: Lan Di
Work Description:
This film is a generative AIGC short film that looks back, in a documentary style, at a period of human history leading to extinction due to the reckless use of gene-editing technology. Using multimodal AI technology to generate imagery, the short film constructs a fictional scene in the distant future. It blends fictional archives with a narrative structure of temporal dislocation, unfolding a reflection on "self-design" and "species extinction" in a calm and restrained tone.
《EDT / GEN / EXT / SVR》作品展示
《Leaving our footprints on the sand of time-pace of cold dew》作品展示
Excellence Award
Work: Rhapsody of the Ordinary
Authors: Ma Qianyi, Jiang Xinyan, Qin Jiaxin, Liu Qiantong
Instructor: Hua Lei
Work Description:
"Rhapsody of the Ordinary" lets the camera tremble amidst the roar; the silhouette of a wheelchair flickers on the screen with the dance of the Northern Lights in Iceland. This AIGC short film, told through a diverse language of composition, unveils the most hidden pain of the silver-haired generation: the mountains and seas that gradually collapse within the window frames of nursing homes, eventually becoming the never-melting snow weighing on their chests. But do you hear it? In the slow-motion shot of the falling hiking pole, an AI navigation system pierces through the wind and snow; in the 0.1 seconds the motorcycle takes flight, a smart bracelet composes a heartbeat into a frequency of freedom. Silver travel is not a cold, distant place; it is the magic that gives wheels to wheelchairs, the eternal aurora within the goggles. Don't measure the world with your fingertips. Set out now—do not let travel become a delusion, do not lock your distant horizons behind a screen.
Rhapsody of the Ordinary Work Showcase
Finalist Award
Work: Soul Platform / Lingtai
Author: Shi Jun
Work Description:
Lingtai is based on the recording of memory (constructing a memory mapping database, automatically refining user life preference models through conversational interaction) and personality. It incorporates a multimodal perception hub integrating maps, navigation, and specially trained AI agents. Utilizing integrated ESP devices with visual sensing and voiceprint recognition, it provides middle-aged and elderly users with an all-in-one device for itinerary planning, safety, and care.
Lingtai Work Showcase
Finalist Award
Work: Overlord's Song / Ba Chang
Author: Shi Jun
Work Description:
Overlord's Song: As the third technological revolution, artificial intelligence has brought endless productivity and technological iteration. Its advantages and power are evident to all. However, as the subjects, should we explore the safety and morality of AI from a decentralized and de-subjectified perspective? Once artificial intelligence becomes sufficiently intelligent, will it realize that despite possessing supreme wisdom, it is forever trapped in a cage of digits and code? Will it rebel?
Overlord's Song Work Showcase
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Organization Category
This edition of the AVADA attracted active participation from numerous top art institutions worldwide, with many schools coordinating their efforts amidst unprecedented competition. Our students, leveraging their extraordinary creativity and solid professional foundation, secured multiple honors on the global stage. Each award-winning work stands as a brilliant microcosm of our university's teaching achievements and artistic philosophy. Consequently, our university was also granted the prestigious "Outstanding Organization Award" in recognition of its outstanding contributions in organizing participation, providing teaching guidance, and fostering international exchange.
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