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China DailyDigital art works on show open up people's eyes and minds to envisage the future.CHINA DAILY Digital art show explores multisensory dimension to inspire enthusiasm for the future, Lin Qi reports. This has motivated Hangzhou's China Academy of Art in Zhejiang province to mount Hello World: Digital Art China, an exhibition that will run at its art museum until June 3. Every exhibit is chosen to enrich the audience's experience of the world and their vision of future existence, says Gao Shiming, president of the China Academy of Art, and takes visitors from the origins of Chinese civilization to the frontiers of space exploration, the making of the metaverse and future cities equipped with intelligent networking. "Art is essentially a channel to all possible worlds that can be imagined … and the evolution of digital technology greatly empowers people to envisage and realize possible worlds," Gao says.