News and Updates

06.01.2013 Advanced Institute Receives Inaugural HKADC Translation Fund

The Advanced Institute has been awarded a grant of HKD1.77 million from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council through the HKADC’s inaugural Hong Kong Literature Translation Project. This grant supports the translation and publication of ten works of contemporary Hong Kong literature over the next three years. The co-directors of the project within the Advanced Institute are Mr Christopher Mattison (Assistant Director) and Mr Enoch Tam (Senior Research Assistant).

06.01.2013 Green Roofs over Walls

The Advanced Institute, in partnership with Professor Graeme Lang in the Department of Asian and International Studies, has been awarded HKD300,000 from the CityU Campus Sustainability Fund. GROW is a cross-disciplinary project which will introduce Permaculture to CityU, including the development of green zones on rooftops and related GE courses. Phase I of this project covers converting a section of the ornamental garden on the roof of Academic 2 to a pilot permaculture site.

30.08.2012 Interview with Vincent W. S. CHUI

As I understand it, to be independent means to be outside of the mainstream, articulating one’s own voice. It also means to be outside of the institution and to emphasize multiplicity and diversity. An independent filmmaker should resist and contend with the institution; if not in the form of a social movement, then by providing one’s own voice. Take Spike Lee as just one example. His films are simple to understand, but this doesn’t make him a mainstream filmmaker. There are any number of independent elements within his work. Three Narrow Gates is independent because it is a film that people within the mainstream cannot make. This is what I understand as being “independent”.

30.08.2012 Future Culture (2-5 Dec)
[In]tangible Heritage | Design | Cross Media

The symposium NODEM 2012 HONG KONG will bring together leading theorists, practitioners and artists in conversation about the future of digital heritage, creative practices, design and emerging technologies. The symposium is intended for museums practitioners throughout Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, for researchers interested in forms of cultural mediation, students of cultural heritage and designers of new media.