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 ...

MAD teaching staff Dr. Janey HUANG published two research papers, titled "Second Life, a hope for ideal, but only in its imaginary" in Asian Social Science Vol. 17, No. 2; 2021, PP 109-112 | ISSN 1911-2017. "Are we real in virtual worlds?" in International Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Studies, Vol. 8, Issue 1, 2021, PP 15-18| ISSN 2694-6296. Asian Social Science (ASS)  is an int...

In December, the results of the 4th "National Art and Design Competition" were announced. Students and teaching staff from the Division of Culture and Creativity, Media Arts and Design (MAD) programme were awarded great achievements in this competition.The competition was divided into teacher group and student group, MAD teaching staff Dr. Janey HUANG was awarded the First Prize in Photography,...

From Nov 4-7, 2020, the First MAD (Media Arts and Design) MADONE exhibition was held. All exhibits were from MAD students.The exhibition helped UICers interested in MAD to know more about on-campus artistic production. The concept of MAD may be different in everyone's mind, and it was those different ideas and their realization MADers wanted to show students.The name MADONE has multiple meaning...

MAD students have won the Tencent First Prize of Game Design Competition. On behalf of the MAD programme, Dr. Purrie Ng, acting Programme Director of MAD, would like to express her sincere thanks to Dr. Oksana and all MAD staff and AIs for teaching and supporting the MAD students in building up their artistic and creative foundations. Dr. Purrie Ng would also like to send her congratulations to...

The Media Arts and Design (MAD) programme of UIC's Division of Culture and Creativity held the MAD Showcase for Introduction to Media Aesthetics on 27 November.Audience members watching the short films The showcase used the theme "Introduction to Media Aesthetics"and different students' artworks were represented. The students explored various kinds of media art, including video, animation, stop...

On 16 March, a panel of five professionals conducted an on-site accreditation of the Media Arts and Design Programme (MAD) that is aiming to be offered next academic year.Their two-and-a-half-day schedule was intense, featuring tours of facilities, as well as meetings with the MAD Programme Planning Team, Advisory Committee members, potential employers and students. The informative visit convin...