Lei Zihan is a year-4 student from UIC's Media Arts and Design (MAD) programme. She has been admitted to MA Fashion Design Management Programme at the University of the Arts London.If you look at her profile, you will be amazed by the long list of her achievements during the past four years:Zihan won the First Class Award for three consecutive years and the UIC Student Internship Scholarship. H...

The opening of the 2022 Graduation Show of Media Arts and Design Program kicked off at 2 p.m. on April 19th, 2022 in CC 323. A total of 64 pieces of work were on displayed, including dissertations, graphic design, video art, interactive design, installation art, paintings and etc. Along the way of growth, MAD students have become more intelligent and confident under the cultivation of and all k...

A seminar about Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli kicked off in CC-326 on April 8, 2022. The seminar was hosted by Ms. Angelica ZHANG part-time lecture of the Media Arts and Design program. The aim of this seminar is to get participants to know art history and artists in the Renaissance period, get in-depth of how to appreciate the art. And expect it to be a window for our students to be in...

The "MADartnow 2021" course exhibition opened at the DCC Building Ground Floor on December 2, 2021. The month-long exhibition presents six groups of works by Media Art and Design students from the course Visual Arts Since 1900. The course covers most key theories, philosophical trends, political and social changes that have shaped the development of Modern, Post-Modern, and Contemporary Art, su...

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...

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...

Art-ON-Museums Seminar: Towards End of ArtA 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 media fo...