What is CIL?
Who should be in CIL?
What do I get out of CIL?
What may I become in CIL?
An introduction…
There’s rumor that at CIL you study just everything!!
Actually there are
3 converging areas…
THREE GROUPS of courses!!!!!!
Would that be too broad, too many…and lack of focus?
INTER-DISCIPLINARY MODEL…the trend of the humanities
That’s what CONTEMPORARY ART is…
- Grounded in critical theory of society and culture
FOUR GROUPS of experts collaborating!!!
Critical Intermedia Studies
Dr. Kimburley Choi
Dr. Stever Fore
Dr. Linda Lai
Dr. Hector Rodriguez
Visual Art
Ms Phoebe Man
Linda / Hector
Computer Graphics
Mr. Bryan Chung
Yuk / Hector
Cinematic Art
Mr. Ip Yuk-yiu (Yuk)
Linda / Steve / Hector / Kim
*(gray) = also in that area by background and artistic practice
WHAT DO THE THREE GROUPS OF COURSES
FOLLOW FROM IN THE YEAR-1 CURRICULUM?
Audio-visual Culture + Contemporary Art
1008 art of the moving image
1011 introduction to contemporary art
1012 creative writing
1013 introduction to photography
1014 sound basics and design
1016 moving image workshop
1208 introduction to 2D studio practice
WHAT DO THE THREE GROUPS FOLLOW FROM IN THE YEAR-1 CURRICULUM?
Critical Theory (everyday culture + urban space)
1011 introduction to contemporary art
1012 creative writing workshop
1013 introduction to photography
2007 culture, society & new technologies
WHAT DO THE THREE GROUPS FOLLOW FROM IN THE YEAR-1 CURRICULUM?
Digital Literacy (computer programming + interactivity)
1001 introduction to digital media
1205 interactivity
1208 introduction to 2D studio practice
2007 culture, society & new technologies
3 groups of CIL courses
Some examples…
Audio-visual Culture + Contemporary Art
Visual ethnography / Micro narratives* / Art administration / Installation / Sonic art / Space & narratives
/ Installation workshop / Creative electronics* / Cognition & the arts / Sound installation / Art
criticism / Computational cinema…
Critical Theory (everyday culture + urban space)
Creative city & urban critique / Visual ethnography / User research / Philosophy and history of
computation / Micro narratives / Game & play studies / Cultures & Identities / Space & narratives /
Open source: software as interaction / Sonic art & the history of sounds & noises / Critical theory
of society* / Information & communication in contemporary art / User Research…
Digital Literacy (computer programming + interactivity)
Fundamentals of programming* / Generative art & literature* / Computational cinema / Philosophy &
history of computation / Network based media / Subversive computing and tactical media / Game
interactivity fundamentals / Workshop in game design / Software art / Open source: software as
interaction …
NOTE THE OVERLAPPINGS…
NOTE THE THREE GROUPS ADDRESS THE QUESTION OF WHAT IS NEW MEDIA…
* = core course
WHAT IS AT THE CORE OF THE CONVERGING GROUPS OF COURSES?
NEW MEDIA…
AS NEW LITERACY
AS ART
AS A WAY TO THINK ABOUT SOCIETY & CULTURE CRITICALLY
The 10 core courses…
+ CIL electives
See cIL web
http://www.cityu.edu.hk/scm/program/courses/bacm2007_CIL.pdf
What is CIL?
core beliefs…
PURPOSE OF UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION
…an adequate general education for future specialization
core beliefs…
PURPOSE OF UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION
…an adequate general education for future specialization
FUTURE-ORIENTATED
…for the changing world of new media
*Integration
*Cross-breeding of creative media
*Multiple platform
core beliefs…
PURPOSE OF UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION
…an adequate general education for future specialization
FUTURIST ORIENTATION
…for the changing world of new media
*Integration
*Cross-breeding of creative media
*Multiple platform
PROCESS-ORIENTED LEARNING
…opening up: our own potentials, relations with culture & society
…creating experience
…research-oriented
unique PRACTICE…
SM4146 Portfolio & Practicum
All CIL students have to complete a digital portfolio before graduation.
The digital portfolio is a presentation of selected works from the 3-4 years of work with narratives to
explain one’s artistic purposes and beliefs, development, strengths and variety of skills.
The portfolio must also document a student’s outreach/professional experience as a student. (That
could be internship in a media organization, volunteer work in art events, cultural activist
participation, experience of hosting creative workshops for secondary schools, participation in a
festival or exhibition etc.)
See: http://criticalintermedia.scm.cityu.edu.hk/
Action Projects (AP)
Starting 2009-2010, CIL students can participate in one or more of the following AP’s created for
all BACM students. These “action group” activities are highly related to the CIL curriculum. They
were first initiated and experimented within the CIL in the past few years, now open to all BACM
students.
*Exhibition
*Media Art Criticism
*Study Tours for media & contemporary art
GT (graduation thesis) projects 2007…
Video
Story-telling & narrative games
Cross-genre
Process is content / creating experience
Creating new audio-visual experience
Animation
Research-based
Exploration of web platform*
Web Archive
Slimming culture
In search of Yuen Long
Virtual tourism & space-making in Tai Hom Village
Book-making
Installation / theatre
Code-based programmed multimedia works / interactive fiction
Link to thesis projects
What do CIL graduates do?
(art) education…[IVE, Art School, primary school, community projects, secondary
schools, Lingnan University]
art administration [HK Arts Centre, Para/Site Art Space, 1aSpace]
web design / multimedia production
advertising
journalism / publishing [SCMP, National Geographic]
TV & Film (writer, art direction, production) [nowtv, ontv, Cable TV, TVB]
cultural management
Graduate education: [fine arts, photography & urban studies, critical theory, cultural
studies, media design] / overseas (US, Canada, UK) + Hong Kong
Powerpoint notes by Linda C.H. LAI
Revised March 2009