Dajuin Yao founded the Open Media Lab in 2010, upon the establishment of the new School of Intermedia Art, at China Academy of Art. For these past ten years, the futurology-oriented Open Media Lab has been persistently using sci-fi as its methodology, and devoting itself to the alchemy of culture, art and technology. In 2016, Dajuin founded the virREAL Center for Art and Technology, which has provided his 30 Master's and Ph.D. students a technology-savvy environment, complete with brainwave and sensory detection, facial and motion capture, virtual and mixed reality, immersive sound and visuals, and AI and robotics. The original meaning of Intermedia art is to create new mediums and platforms "between" existing mediums. And Dajuin has established many courses that have not been offered in this country, such as live social media art, live audio-visual performance, sound art, future writing, scifi art, sci-fi virtual reality, FUI design, etc. Open Media Lab believes in liberating oneself from the medium-oriented ideology of art, and aims toward "forgetting the wares and keeping the Way," and finally to nurture a new generation of "New Renaissance Man/Woman."