MAD-THOUGHT-INSPIRED/ DISCUSSION

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. (George Dickie, Aesthetics, 1971)

Moderator: andyDada,Shenzhen-Zhuhai-Hong Kong Art Critic and Creative Industries Researcher, Art Educator, UICDCCMAD Assistant Professor

The meeting, firstly will aim to exchange/ up-to-date museum practices in the field of contemporary art, especially focusing on the art geography fromLondon-UK-Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Zhuhai-Great Bay Area-China.

Secondly, it is also our pleasure to have ONE UICDCC alumni, Rose Fan, and to share her professional/ postgraduate study in curatorship @ Royal College of Art, UK(RCA, ranked NO 1 University for art & design from the QS World University Rankings). Besides, Rose also provides an insightful sharing in ArtNow to UIC staff and studnets.This meeting aims to facilitate for MAD Y4 students who are going to plan their postgraduate study and creative career.

The definition of art has been argued in-between art as objects and the artworld-New Institutional Theory of Art(Dickie, 1974). The art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto writes"The Artworld" (1964) and seeing something as art requires something the eye cannot decry—an atmosphere of artistic theory, a knowledge of the history of art: an artworld. Danto reveals how contemporary aesthetics is defined by institutions and communities that make up ‘the artworld’- that art institutions such as museums and galleries, and specific agents working within them, have the power to dictatewhat is art and what is not(Oxford Reference, 2021).

The meetingwill mutually/continuously develop a platform to further foresee the New Art Learning & Teaching Praxis and Moves on contemporary art. It also explores and establishes a UIC ICON as contributingCulture and Creativity, and Innovationthat create our vison for abetter “art & culture geography”.