The “MADmedia Showcase” was held on 1 December 2021 at 2:30pm in T5-105. The showcase presented 13 group works from Media Art and Design year 2 students Introduction to Media Aesthetics course.“In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." (Andy Warhol, 1968) The Showcase aimed to initiate the student’s visual concept, forms, colors, storyline, and media aesthetics that have...

Lei ZihanFourth-year student of the Media and Design programmeWinner of the First Class Award for three consecutive yearsWinner of the Mr Fung Sun Kwan Scholarship of ExcellenceWinner of the Scholarship Scheme for Internship and Social PracticesKeep pushing yourselfExplore the possibilities in your fieldPrioritise the important tasksAt a new media literacy course in her second year, The teacher...

More than 70 percent of UICers opted for postgraduate studies at home and abroad. Many of those who chose to study in Chinese mainland were admitted to top universities, including Tsinghua University, Peking University, Wuhan University, Sun Yat-sen University, Beijing Normal University, Renmin University of China, etc.As the Unified National Graduate Entrance Examination 2022 is approaching, s...

When you walk into Mark Lent’s office in the DCC building on the UIC campus, the cameras command your immediate attention. Over 100 of them actually, and from all corners of the world. “The large one is from World War 2 and was used on a B-17 bomber to photograph the damage done to German targets during bombing raids by allied forces,” he pointed out. Mark Lent has been an instructor for nin...

The 19th Asia Pacific Council on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education (APacCHRIE) was held online between 2 and 4 June. Senior students from UIC Culture, Creativity and Management (CCM) Programme, Zheng Jie, Xu Xingjian, Zhong Huining, and Wang Zihan, attended the conference and presented their academic papers.Jie ZHENG and Xingjian XU gave speeches at the meeting and had in-depth disc...

Art-ON-Museums Seminar: Towards End of Art A work of art in the classificatory sense is 1) an artifact 2) on which some person or persons acting on behalf of a certain social institution (the artworld) has conferred the status of candidate for appreciation.(Dickie, 1971. Aesthetics,) "Art- On- Museums Seminar" was completed and organized by Division of Culture and Creativity (DCC) on 5 May 2021...

Collective Creatives from MAD Students and Staff  “….From the camera obscura in the era dominated by painters to the photography in the 19th century, people have been trying to capture the chemical reactions of different “lights”.….. Such fission process has not only greatly extended the boundaries of photography concept, but has also gradually infiltrated the construction of other medi...

On May 6, 2021, DCC’s photography class was given the brief to work on nature photography. The location for this was to be the Doumen Crocodile Farm and Nature Park, located approximately one hour by bus from the UIC campus. The students were instructed to look for "detail" in their images rather than filling the entire scene within one image. This is a standard for more advanced image making ...