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　　"We have grown up in agricultural civilization, feeling its warmth and conservatism, simplicity and perseverance. We are also struggling in the waves of modernization, resulting in winning a place to live in industrial civilization. However, as we can just take a breath at the moment of the tone, the information age, the network society, and the AI century are coming." Taiwan writer Yang Du feels the "sensation" of people who have lived through the era of agricultural, industrial and post-industrial times of omnimedia.

By December 2018, the number of Chinese netizens reached 829 million, and mobile Internet users approached 817 million – at the presence of the omnimedia era of "everything is media", from June 11th to 12th, the 11th Cross-Straits, Hong Kong and Macao Regional Art Forum, theming "Art and Literature in the Age of Omnimedia", hosted by CFLAC and Macao Foundation, invited experts and scholars from both sides of the Straits, Hong Kong and Macao to answer questions about literature and art in this particular era.

The era of the omnimedia has been unprepared. As if in an overnight, "communication" is no longer exclusive to paper, radio and television. The great power of the Internet has made the definition of "media" lose its borders, and also unlimited to unilateral information release, but provided interactive communication in multiple ways. "The omnimedia will definitely bring downwards to literature and art," said Meng Man, professor at the School of History and Culture of the Minzu University of China.

The integration of literature and the omnimedia is very typical. Today, the Chinese online literature has been able to compete with American Hollywood, Japanese anime and Korean TV dramas as the four major cultural phenomena in the world today. "In the past, we watched Korean dramas and Japanese comics. Now Americans are beginning to watch our online serial literature, because the carriers are different: everyone has a mobile phone, and the novel is uploaded to the Internet for one minute, resulting in, perhaps, tens of thousands of readers."Huang Wei, a network writer, believes that "one could read books when there are plenty of food", it is also the material basis for the dramatic changes in the literary and artistic ecology of the omnimedia era. In the two sides of the Straits, Hong Kong and Macao, the use of e-books, e-magazines and other new media has been battling with the existing publishing model, and even become an independent publication incubation base in the Chinese region.

According to Lv Zhipeng, a Macao cultural worker, the "Macao Literature" series launched by the city in 2013 combines a variety of different art forms: sand painting, video, music and literature reading... forming a multimedia literary film "Emerald Dream"; In 2017, Lotus TV organized "Reading Macao" in the cultural buildings, such as Dom Pedro V Theatre. Through the various art forms, like reading, poetry, prose, music, art, dance, film and television, it combines the beauty of sound and painting to spread and display Macao's multicultural traits. Rai Mutsu, a Macao writer also said that the members of the Macao PEN Club have held exhibitions related to photography and poetry for many timesin the past ten years. The novels of the writers, such as Ji Ran, Li Er and Li Yuliang, "Metamorphosis in the Darkness" "Colorful Fairy Tales" "Fairy Tale of the Chaotic World" have been adapted into the stage works. Rai Mutsu and Cheang Mio San's poems were quoted in the "Travel of the Story · Macao" of Portuguese Southern Theatre Company, openingthe way for the use and transformation of Macao literature in other art forms.

Literature uses other art media to obtain the continuation of life, and the omnimedia realizes the expansion of literature for the audience. The audio information platform, such as Himalayan relies on the fragmentation time, eagerness to liberate the five senses, low cost and high efficiency, and concomitance of users in such era, has been greatly developed in this era. According to Zhou Xiaohan, vice president and editor-in-chief of Himalayan, 70% of users will listen to audio books on this platform. "From two hours to three hours, it represents, in such Internet environment, that users, the readers' desire for literature and art. From this perspective, it is so exciting," she said.

"The largest advantage of the omnimedia is that there is no limit to interaction, communication and interaction are everywhere. Everyone can become an artist, recipient and critic. The relationship between comics and the public is very close. It's easy to establish and implement interactions." Li Chen, a professor and painter of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, began to make shelf comic strips in 2010 as he presented the comic strips on the shelf. With the advantages of the frame, it could more deeply convey the perception and feeling of life and solve the artist's use to express the spiritual character of the object. "The comic strip stepping into the exhibiting hall not only enhances the coverage of communication, but also realizes the interactive experience that comes with the spread of the omnimedia." Li Chen said.

Lv Zhipeng believes that the era of the omnimedia can be regarded as an era in which the recipients change from elites to the masses, which is difficult to avoid fragmentation in literature and art. Therefore, short space, straightforward language and life-orientation will be the trend. "Internet, and literature and art are a very interesting pair of friends. Literature and art have appeared at the beginning of human civilization. The Internet is the product of the great period of human science and technology. One is everlasting new, the other is newly-appeared with dynamic strength. And when the network develops to 4G today, as we are about to enter the 5G era, we preserve that they are inseparable, presenting a brand-new look." Zhou Xiaohan said.

"When we unconsciously participate in the appreciation process of literary and artistic works, big data will be fed back, and the horrible phenomena about absolute readers/audience orientation is that people who lack thinking will be manipulated – audience participation becomes the manipulation of the audience." At the moment, Xu Anhua is directing the film "First Incense", but it was called the "First Furnace Steel" by the netizens due to the male and female protagonists selection, Xu Anhua must give the performers more psychological guidance during the shooting process. Xu Zidong, a professor at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, takes this example to show that when literary and art workers have not yet completed their work, the online masses may have participated in the creative process.

When composing "The First Building of the World", He Jiping was" the people looking for information": she went to the courtyards located to Beijing's east, west, north and south to visit different people; in the deserted small alley of Beijing's southern city, she found the authentic three-generation descendant of Roast Duck, Tian Wenkuan, who brought He Jiping into the Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant, and she began to experience life in the kitchen. The "life experience" in front of the oven has opened a fascinating new world for her. In order to understand the "spoken words" amongst chefs, she went to study cooking and also claimed the second-class chef certificate. In today's era of "information targeting people", she and Xu Anhua read the three-meter-thick materials to create "The Moonlight", "Many people was most moved by Tony Leung Ka Fai in the movie and - most of the guerrillas of the year are gone, the few sporadic people left were the 'little ones' who were in their teens. Now they are ordinary people who drive taxis or do trade. They live in the crowded narrow streets of Hong Kong. They used to be great icons in the past, but they hid their identities without any complaints, one sentence 'we all have to eat!' is the exact mentality" - too much material, He Jiping eventually has to return to the characters, and be attracted by them to select some real events and characters, focusing, changing, adding, highlighting and re-organizing the relationship between characters and reshaping their characters. "The golden age of my creation is precisely the period when publishing is booming and the picturemaking industry is in the ascendant. It is the warm-up period before the arrival of the omnimedia." Li Chen believes that the hand-painted comic strip involves a new cognition of realism, integrating the creative spirit of traditional comic strips into the cutting and transformation of new social life, and making handpainted comic strips, a traditional form of painting, as it retains the natural, unrepeatable hand-made plastic marks, continuously refresh the visual experience, and thus maintain the vivid and lively artistic vitality in the era of art globalization and diversity of visual art image brought by economic globalization. It comes from the slow life era, but also from the most real life, so it can still touch the softest corners of people's hearts nowadays, and therefore it is most precious.

"In the era of omnimedia, the spread of words is not an insurmountable technical problem. The breadth of influence can be easily obtained by the sensational headline writings. However, the depth of creation ultimately determines the durability of the work." Yuan Shaoshan, director of the Macau PEN Association said. Zhou Xiaohan believes, in the era of content domination, the literary and art workers do not have to reject or fear the arrival of the Internet. Both sides need "Two Minds": conscience, ingenuity, awe, and sincerity and goodwill. "Perhaps as the artists tend to not consider readers in their creations, the more likely they are forgotten in history." Xu Zidong said.

"The constant change is our normality. Wandering is our residence." Yang Du said that because of living in the age of great changes, we can compare the difference between agricultural and industrial civilizations, the relationship between the network age and traditional civilization, we can experience the pain and joy, loneliness and jealousy, courage and fragility, human nature and profoundness of human heart.

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