Program Introduction

The four-year degree program prepares students for a career in new media arts, enabling them to contribute to contemporary Chinese culture, involving new ways of making, exhibiting, teaching, collecting, and evaluating artworks and technologies.
 Taught by a distinguished team of international artists, equipped with state-of-the-art technology, the course acts as an incubator of new art forms, promoting innovation of purpose and practice, and providing students with ways of understanding and presenting new forms of artistic and cultural expression through critical discourse, analysis and theory, and navigating the new media art environment that is arising in China, Europe, and the Americas.
The program aims to impart digital skills, enhance creativity, and develop fluency in making, analyzing, and evaluating new media art. Graduates of the program will be part of the important and growing movement of new media art in China, leading it to compete with the rest of the world. Students in the Technoetic Arts program are at the cutting edge of this process, developing a flexibility of mind, manifold skills, and originality of attitude that will enable them to pursue a successful, and remunerative future.

Training Goals

The Advanced Class B.A. Technoetic Arts is designed to prepare students for a career in the field of new media arts. The program aims to enable students creatively to develop a predictive intelligence to tools, materials, software, methods, and processes making technoetic art practice anticipatory whilst grounded in the contemporary art, science, and technology movements.

Curriculum Description

 

The curriculum aims to enable individual creative development in relation to art, technology and consciousness research, and it is built on the generative principle of the lattice, an open network, consisting of: Information (knowing), Structure (building), Concept (thinking), Analysis (materials, software, tools, systems), Theory (historical and emergent), Social application (real world problems),Speculation (anticipatory, propositional, expressive), Interaction (transformative instrumental), Telematic Narrative (time-based, interactive), Moistmedia (bio, neuro, nano), Syncretic environment(variable reality, modeling, prototyping, Internet of Things), Behavioral studies (performance, identity, collaboration), Communications(language, semiotic systems, cyberception).

Career Prospective

 

Students may work in a wide range of artistic practices, including digital telecommunications, Internet connectivity, screen-based hypermedia, digital film, multi-media installations, intelligent architecture, smart products, robotics, telepresence, computer modeling of behavior, remote sensing devices, cyberspace and virtual /augmented reality, artificial life, popular culture, contemporary music, sonic art, video art and performance.

Selection of students

Students have to have a proper secondary education with evidence of knowledge and skills in arts, humanities and/or sciences. They need to have an interesting and promising portfolio of selected works (either physical and/or digital), and have computer skills that enable them to work with text, sound, video, and image. Furthermore, candidates have to have: An understanding of the nature, potential, and application of the field of Technoetic Arts. A potential to work technologically, theoretically, critically, and creative in collaborative, transdisciplinary, and transcultural contexts.