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 ...

The Immersive Musical & Exhibition titled "The IslandDawn" organized by was held on 2-6 May at UIC exhibition hall.This event organized by UIC University Musical "The Island" Student Original Team, co-organized by UICER, Imusic, Singing Paradise, Staff and Student Activities Center & Division of Culture and Creativity. UIC musical "The Island" is an original university musical adapted from Vict...

Many outstanding students of the Division of Cultural and Creativity attended the 2019-2020 Scholarship Award Ceremony. A total of 46 students of DCC won a first-class scholarship and 90 students won a second-class scholarship. DCC expresses congratulations to these studentsWe interviewed several outstanding student representatives from different majors, and they shared their study and life exp...

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...