News in 2023-2024
Artstation’s Soundscape: finding future’s way
When and where was your last encounter of honeybees? In the recently opened exhibition, finding future’s way, the University Artists Anne Hayes and Glenn Davidson weave together the sound of local honeybees and the urban Hong Kong vibe. The artists collaborate with the Department of Fine Arts, the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Department of Architecture, and the School of Biological Sciences to present phenomena that would have been invisible to the naked eye. Go and find out what they are! Its opening attracted a high spirited crowd. Here is a glimpse of the event: [...]
Career Opportunities: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor (2)
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Art historian specializing in Chinese material culture (Ref.: 201601337) The Department of Fine Arts, HKU, invites applications for a tenure-track appointment as Assistant Professor in Chinese art history, with a specialty in pre-20th-century Chinese material culture. The appointment will commence on September 1, 2017, initially on a three-year fixed-term basis, with the possibility of renewal and with consideration for tenure before the expiry of a second three-year fixed-term contract. The Department of Fine Arts has one of the best art history programs in Asia, with a particular focus on Western and Asian art, and with special [...]
Career Opportunities: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor (1)
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Contemporary art history (Ref.: 201601330) The Department of Fine Arts, HKU, invites applications for a tenure-track appointment as Assistant Professor in contemporary art history. The appointment will commence on September 1, 2017, initially on a three-year fixed-term basis, with the possibility of renewal and with consideration for tenure before the expiry of a second three-year fixed-term contract. The Department of Fine Arts has one of the best art history programs in Asia, with a particular focus on Western and Asian art, and with special strength in intercultural study. There are on average 35 undergraduate majors per [...]
Prof. Clarke’s Photographs at UMAG
Prof. Clarke's Photographs: Interruptions 斷續 Interruptions: with photographs by David Clarke and essays by Xu Xi at the University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG) will open next week! All current and former students are welcome to its opening at 6pm on Tuesday 13 September. “The spine of this current project is a series of interlocking images and texts that began with a single photograph selected from David Clarke’s archive. Xu Xi then wrote an essay triggered by—but not necessarily in response to—the photograph, which led to David’s choice of a second work. The 12 images and essays construct a fascinating palimpsest [...]
Fine Arts Students at Art Basel 2016
As part of the Hong Kong Art Workshop, this year ran by Michelle Wong of Asia Art Archive (AAA) and Dr. Koon, in March, the students took part in AAA’s Open Platform Booth at Art Basel and talk to some of the experts and players who attend the fair. The conversations used a speed-dating formula as a way for students to get to the point quickly and to enable a range of experts to participate. The theme of their discussion was on how non-profit organisations can shape public discourses about art at a time when attention is increasingly focused on the for-profit art market. Guests [...]
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