Critical Intermedia Laboratory Curriculum's 5 core studio areas
City University of Hong Kong
School of Creative Media
Critical Intermedia Laboratory Curriculum's 5 core studio areas
LATEST... Study Tour in Germany (Berlin, Frankfurt, Karlsruhe) as SM3139 Special Topics.../ Sem B, 2011
(see draft plan details + expenses + course requirement)
QCLF 2009:
A grant was approved to subsidize 30% of an art exhibition (01-02.2010) to showcase CIL student artworks created in the various courses of the past academic year. (See below: 'Exhibitions')
QCLF 2008:
A grant was approved to subsidize 40% of an art study tour to 4 European cities. (See below: 'Art Study Tours')
QCLF 2006:
Our submission to the Quality Campus Life Fund for Year 2006-7 was granted for the project, "Digital & New Media Arts: a Study Tour in Germany for students at SCM's Critical Intermedia Laboratory (CIL)," which took place in June 2007. (See #4 below for details.)
TDG 2006:
Linda and Wesley were awarded a HKD200,000 Teaching Development Grant (2006) for an initiative titled "Creativity in Practice: Teaching & Learning Outside Classroom" (CIP).
The grant for CIP has TWO main purposes: (1) it provides funds to allow CIL students to gain more out-of-classroom learning experiences, including art education opportunities, internship in the media industry, organizing and participating in art events and exhibitions, developing one’s own art show and so on; and (2) it provides resources to help CIL consolidate its educational philosophy and enhance communication of artistic and professional excellence, such as acquiring professional help to run the out-of-classroom learning component, enhancing students in the creation of their digital portfolio, and maintaining an effective, community-based web-site.
CIL Week One Orientation, September 2005 [details]
CIL Week One Orientation, September 2006 [schedule]
CIL Week One Orientation, September 2007 [details]
CIL Induction Week, Aug 31-Sep 4 2009 [details]
CIL Creative Bulletin #2 - Lithium Carbon [link] [full catalogue compressed pdf-big file]
January 27 to February 4, 2010 / Art Commune, Cattle Depot / Grand opening: January 29, 2010 - 6:00pm
Sententia
A special cash grant awarded to quality student proposals to practice their exhibition and curatorial skills. Opened March 22, 2008
CIL Creative Bulletin #1 [link] [photos]
Opened on Dec 11, 2007, the CIL Creative Bulletin #1 has stayed through 4 consecutive days of open critique sessions between CIL students and instructors, occasionally joined by local artists and curators. The event closed at noon on Dec 19. The works are mainly from Visual Ethnography (with works resulting from a semester-long field research), Micro Narratives (a total of 51 short video works), and Creative Electronics Workshop, demonstrating what students have learnt in this past semester.
A few dozens of staff, student, alumni and friends of SCM plus visitors came to the opening reception at Shu Ning Presentation Unit, a multi-purpose loft space in Kwun Tong.
The CIL Creative Bulletin provided a chance for students to learn to set-up and present their works outside campus, where equipment and technical help would not be readily available. In addition, students need to draw their production plans and schedules in great details in order to open the show on time. They also learn to cope with all kinds of unpredictable circumstances while setting up their works in an external space.
Micro-narratives: Invented Time & Space in video [link]
An exhibition featuring video works from the 2002- 2005 editions of the course SM2202 Micro Narratives. A total of 108 works on 24 screen surfaces formed a video installation/sculpture, chanting the city songs of HK, shown to the public at Too Art Gallery, 2nd floor, Hong Kong Art Centre, April 8-28, 2006, Hong Kong
Playground [link]
An exhibition featuring 10 Hong Kong artists at Kaohsiung's Kao Yuan Art Centre, Kao Yuan University of Technology, Taiwan, December 21, 2006 to January 21, 2007... SCM members included a few of our faculty members: Phoebe Man, the exhibition's Curator, and Linda Lai, Ip Yuk-yiu, Hector Rodriguez, Justin Wong and Phil Shek (Artists).
The Writing Machine Collective 2nd edition (WMC_e2) [link]
A 6-month project (January-July, 2007), one of the 4 projects funded by the Arts Development Council to promote new media art. The project included a physical exhibition (Jan 12 to Feb 8, 2007) at both 1a and Videotage at the Cattle Depot Artists Village, a seminar-lecture on "artificial language," two Artists' Dialogues on "computing and literature" and "generative creative process," a 12-hour workshop series on "Inform 7" (a programming language for interactive fiction), and a one-day children's workshop playing with words and characters with simple animation exercise using Scratch (a programming language developed by the MIT Media Lab).
Key organizers were SCM people... From the faculty: Linda Lai (Curator / Artist), Justin Wong (Art Director / Web-master / Artist), Keith Lam (Artist), and Hector Rodriguez (Artist / Workshop Chair). From the SCM student body and graduates: Nick Foxall, Reine Wong, Eric Siu, Coco Ho, Janice Leung, Yvonne Lau, Zoie So, Carrie Chow, Vivi Bong, Kenny Chow, Morgan Wong, To Yip-sang, Yip Kai-chun, Lee Nga-chung, Ray Chan, Millie Chan, Daniel Chong, Damon Chan, Liu Suet-yee, Toby Cheng, June Lau, Tsang Chi-ming and so on. Many other SCM students had helped at various points with different tasks.
*Germany 2007
An art tour (June 13-29, 2007) to ZKM (key media art centre in Karlsruhe), the Skulptur Projekte 2007 (once in 10 years in Munster), the Documenta 12 (once in five years in Kassel), and various art galleries and institutions in Berlin bgan with a one-week exchange with staff and students in the Art & Management program at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. During the exchange week, 19 CIL students presented creative works of their choices to a German public. Works range from video, interactive installation, code-based programmed games, computational cinema pieces, web projects to live performances. [link] // Check out the [Video]
*four European cities - 2008
19 students joined an art tour (May 28-June 10, 2008) to major art galleries and museums in Paris, Bilbao, Barcelona and London. [details...]
'Good Theories, Smart Practice' - special workshop series + overseas artists-in-residence / January - March 2010 [details...]
Dr. Craig Smith is Senior Lecturer at LCC (London College of Communication, the University of the Arts London) conducted a 9-hour workshop (Mar 20) with CIL students, exploring the meaning of photography as a part of a system. Fieldwork in groups responded to his discussion by exploring the notion of 'co-production', 'collaboration', 'immersiveness' and the single-Vs-multiple photos. [website documenting the fieldwork for further development...] Smith also did a lecture (Mar 22) on interactivity as 'relational art'.
A group of well represented delegation from the UGC's RGC visited SCM to investigate our faculty member's research output on June 14, 2007. CIL faculty members presented various digital works and publications.