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Welcome back to SCM (and to Hong Kong, for those who have been traveling).
I am sure you have already noted, from school mail messages, the special two-session CIL Orientation activities in the first week of class, while other streams begin their classes right away. This is an additional invitation to remind you about the two-session event.
We assume you are all mature adults, so there will be no attendance taking to impose on any compulsory presence. We assume, however, that as a voluntary, elf-elected?member of the CIL, you are motivated to learn more about what it means to be part of the CIL. The sessions are for both Year Two and Year Three Students.
The purposes and objectives of the orientation activities are as follows:
(1) CIL is a team combining a broad range of scholarship, artist talents, technical skills, and professional experiences.
→ We therefore want to demonstrate the diversities and varieties of human resources.
→ The core teaching staff members of CIL will each present a work that speaks uniquely of what CIL embraces.
→ The work presented can be their own critical/creative research work; it can be a work that has inspired them or speaks of their own vision; it can be a student work that has demonstrated the concern of CIL.
(2) CIL is a place to experiment, integrate and open up dialogues. We want to spend the first week discovering special interests and talents represented in the CIL student body. We also hope the Year Two students would benefit from the experience of the Year Three students
(3) CIL is a team-building situation. The characteristics of the revised CIL curriculum need to be re-stated, and its structure explainedo help students maximize the benefits of their learning time.
(4) Formation of the CIS ?Critical Intermedia Society: objectives, tasks and possible organization will be discussed.
So once again, the time to meet will be:
Section 1 ?4:30 to 6:30pm (Tuesday, Sep 6), Screening Room
Section 2 ?12:20 to 3:00pm (Wednesday, Sep 7), Screening Room
Works presented by CIL core teaching staff-members:
Sep 6 (Tuesday) ?Yuk, Phoebe, Kimburley, Phil, Hector
Sep 7 (Wednesday) ?Wesley, Justin, Linda
***discussion on the formation of CIS will be conducted on Sep 7
See you all,
Linda (CIL leader)
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Links for works introduced at the CIL orientation (September 2005)
Kim shared to students a book on HIV+ as a good model for research methodology and poly-vocal writing…
Lather, Patti and Chris Smithies. 1997. Troubling the Angels: Women living with HIV/AIDS, Westview, Boulder, Oxford. **The book is in CityU’s Run Run Shaw Library.
Yuk talked about his recent project “PLAY>,” a curatorial project on game and play in media art…
http://www.emergencylab.hk/play
Hector presented his recent research-creation projects, highlighting the topic “Minor Technology and Cognitivism”…
http://sweb.cityu.edu.hk/smhect/metaesthesis
Wesley introduced the Tozar Pak’s “July-first” project and related works on urban drifting, creative cultural intervention, and appropriation of speech/discursive language
http://oneeyeman.com
Justin’s introduced the art of Rirkrit Tiravanija…
(various links for the artist Rirkrit Tiravanija)
http://www.blixa6.com/ci/Tiravanija.html
http://adaweb.walkerart.org/context/artists/tiravanija/tiravanija1.html
http://www.mip.at/en/dokumente/1164-content.html
http://www.nonstarvingartists.com/News/ImagedNewsItem.2004-10-07.2044.html
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/critic/feature/0,1169,1526893,00.html#article_continue
Phoebe recommended a web blog “Mouchette,” on multiple/enigmatic/virtual identities. The blog is based on a French film Mouchette by Bresson.
http://www.mouchette.org
Linda screened her own recent video project, an experimental documentary based on her video diaries, which reflects upon theory as (critical/creative) practice, narrative investigation, auto-ethnography and approaches to writing women’s history…
Linda presented her work I Told Them My Camera Was On (2005)
