A Project funded by the Teaching Development Grant of UGC Creativity in Practice (CIP): Teaching and...

A Project funded by the Teaching Development Grant of UGC

Creativity in Practice (CIP): Teaching and Learning Outside Classroom

Principal Investigator: Dr. Linda LAI Co- Investigator: Mr. Wesley TANG (left

CityU in 9.2008) Current course coordinator of

Portfolio and Practicum: Mr. Yue-jin HO

City University of Hong Kong

School of Creative Media

TDG Project No. 6000135 PI: Dr Linda Lai

What is Creativity in Practice (CIP)?

INTEGRATION OF THEORY & PRACTICE IN MEDIA ARTS

•Managed under a CIL core course Portfolio & Practicum (SM4146) & assessed by all faculty as part of a student’s Graduation Thesis (SM4140)

•For the roughly 90 Critical Intermedia Laboratory

(CIL, one of the 3 study areas in BACM) students

• Last for 20 Months (January 2007 – August 2008)

• Investigated by Studio leader Dr. Linda LAI

• In Alignment with the CIL curriculum (PILOs)

Formalization & Consolidation of Existing Good Practices for Systematic Administration and Assessment


What is Creativity in Practice (CIP)?

DIGITAL PORTFOLIO

created in

Portfolio

& Practicum

SM4146

Expository Writing:

Writing

for CV

DVD

Production

Website

Production

Art/Cultural Projects

(Community Services)

Internship

(roughly 6 weeks)

(Professional)Art Workshops

(Educational)

SKILLS

CIL Creative Bulletin #1

(Art-Making)(annual showcase of CIL course-

art-works to the public)

Sentensia

(Curatorial Practices)(competitive cash award for

students to run an exhibition)

Talks and Seminars

(Alumni & professional experts to

Broaden Horizons)

Outreach

Activities

13-week

training in class


The aim & activities of CIP

• Reflect and apply creative art knowledge & skills

• Develop leadership, presentation and communication skills

• Learn more about own views and abilities

• Deliver works meeting the professional standard of

media industry

• Exercise concern for society in concrete actions

• Verify own values in real organization’s actual practice

• Develop and extend professional networks

• Build a website to demonstrate evidence of PILOs:

display students’ digital portfolios & documentation of

outreach activities

(2A) Outreach Education Programme

(2B) Internship at Media Organizations

(2C) Local Art & Cultural Events

(3) Digital Portfolio

(4) International and Local Experts(5) Exhibition

Differentiated ILOs for * Students (ILOs) * Staff * the School

*Realize with the help of a research assistant, student helpers and the faculty members in CIL

(1) Create a Core course Portfolio and Practicum


(1) “Portfolio and Practicum” the course

• http://sweb.cityu.edu.hk/sm4146

13 weeks of 3-hour workshopWriting:

Personal narratives of creative development + artist’s statements + c.v.

Reflection:Personal creative path, internship and outreach experiences

Multimedia productionDVD production, web-site production

Seminar with professional experts and alumniCase studies: sample portfolios by good artists


(2A) Outreach Education Programmehttp://sweb.cityu.edu.hk/teachingandlearning/new/events.shtml#schoolcia

(Senior-year) Students practise

what they have learnt in SCM through

teaching others

35 student-instructors, 16 teaching teams, 16 secondary schools,

16 4-to-8-week creative workshops on

Photography, Creative Writing, Video, Animation . . .


26 students, 15 media production companies including Television Production,

Animation, Design, Website Design, Publishing, Advertising . . .

Full-time commitment of students in the field of media productions

Full-time employment of some graduates in the organizations

they worked as interns

(2B) Internship in Media Organizations

Performance of students Evaluated by 33 organizations joining the internship:

Exceptional: 4

Greater than required: 16

Meet Expectation: 8

Below Expectation: 0


(2C) Local Art and Cultural Events

Support art and cultural organizations in the form of

local art community services

32 students, 10 art and cultural institutes including research, production,

communication, administrative, operational . . .

Positive Feedback from Students and participating organizations

Students are excited to participate in local art event

Continuation of part-time involvement of students

in the affiliated organizations


(3) Digital Portfolio

(i) Student digital portfolio

(ii) CIL digital archive for student works from different courses

• All portfolios are uploaded to the internal e-Portfolio archive

• Good works are uploaded to the CIL website: http://sweb.cityu.edu.hk/cil/works.htm

• A news section for the CIL community is created: http://cilnews.wordpress.com/

• A server is bought to store all CIL-related digital archives (Videos, portfolios etc.)

“The CV and portfolio writing workshops in Portfolio and Practicum is useful in

making a better portfolio for potential employers”

“Through good course works of senior students, I can understand what

the courses are about. The showcase can be an inspiration

for my own course work too.”


International and local experts are invited to broaden their horizon

(4) International and Local Experts

Around 60 students, 4 guest speakers, 6 seminars

Expertise Name of Expert Seminar Topic

Sound Art, experimental documentary, video essays

Robert Iolini sound / image / text

Phonographic art, web community and cultural heritage activism

Anson Mak Media literacy education

Curatorship for museum and contemporary art space

Stella Fong Exhibition and curatorial practice

International Contemporary Art Curatorship

Álvaro Rodríguez Fominaya

Art valuation

Art curatorship with a “green” concern

Music composition, sound art, phonography and sound theories

Dr. John Drever Live performance with dance, video and sound


(5) Exhibition

An end-of-semester exhibition

showcasing 60 works

CIL Creative Bulletin #1Course-based student work showcase

open to public

“SENTENSIA”Creative Community:

Group Exhibition Fund ($10,000)

A community based 5-day-exhibition

organized by 7 CIL students

Art-making & Curatorial Experiment


Achievements in CIP

CIP deliverables are realized:

16 Creative Art Workshops, 38 internship experiences in 25 organizations,

32 Digital Portfolios, A CIL studio webpage, 6 guest lectures and seminars,

involvement of more than 80 students

Sustainable impact

• The course Portfolio and Practicum becomes a core course

• All CIL students graduate with a digital portfolio

becomes a mandatory practice

•Awareness of the importance of portfolio

• Extending the CIL community to key players and professional

in the art community including:

Secondary school, commercial companies, art and cultural institutions,

the local and international art community, and the public at large . . .

• “Theory as Practice” enforced as concrete experiences

inside and outside campus


Reflection(1) The necessity to sustain a CIP through broad networking with

an extended notion of internship

(2) The difficulty of sustaining multiple expertise

for Portfolio and Practicum

(technicality, writing, presentation, narratives on artistic development . . .)

(3) The requirement of human resources to sustain

a comprehensive outreach programme

(4) The difficulty in evaluating the effectiveness of CIP

Suggested Improvements on Digital Portfolio

(1) Topics and tree structure could be refreshed

(2) In Consideration of the target reader (for Personal development, Documentation of educational experience in CityU, future employers or art curators in museums and

galleries . . .?) for the final submitted portfolio


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