National Taiwan University of Arts 2020 Sprout Project Highlights
●Orientation: Implementing teaching innovations and enhancing teaching quality
●Project Goal: Set up the lecture of innovation and entrepreneurship to ensure and improve the learning effectiveness of students
●Summary:
We enforce the collaboration between the enterprise and academic area. Studios work and integrate proactively with the cultural and creative industry (CCI). Instructors and industrial experts will provide team members consultation service, technical direction, and 3C innovation course. We encourage our students to simulate a business model and cultivate the ability to meet the standards between university and industry. We hope our students will overturn the conventional rules of education and aim for elite promotions of CCI.
●Highlights:
We support twelve teams and create thirty-four pieces of work in 2020. The operation of the CCI studio ensures students narrow the gap between their university learning and employers’ expectations in the workplace, collaborate in team and workplace, accomplish multiple tasks, and improve students’ international employability and competitiveness. The project was exhibited at Bopiliao Historical Block, revealing the power of the creativity industry. The 2020 team is the extension of the 2019 team and be recognized as market-potential. They have the opportunity to participate in Pop Up Asia. Through international activities, we lead students to be in the international exhibitions instead of pure art performance. Students can face the truth when they come across the market through feedback from the audience and consumers, be vetted by the market, and then understand current market trends.
●Orientation: Development of School Characteristics
●Project Goal: The central Idea of the center
●Summary：
1. Historical Object Conservation Research Center:
We combine the traditional craft techniques and cultural heritage as the main two cores of preservation and care. With the practice of the Department of Architecture Art Preservation and Historical Object Conservation Research Center, we aim for enhancing students’ ability and skills. Based on skills of traditional craft and knowledge, we thus maximize the benefit of industry, promote the association with government and industry thus conducting the preservation of cultural and historical heritage.
2. Innovation Center for Art and Technology:
We focus on interdisciplinary multi-art and development of technology together with the aim to combine innovative practice, teaching cultivation, and marketing promotion. We further construct industry, government and academia collaboration to support annual projects and empower the capabilities of creation mainly in the field of art and research. Our ultimate goal is to build up a global platform for scholars, artists and cultural practitioners to exchange their works, experiences and ideas across disciplinary lines and institutional positions.
3. Center for Sound Art and Acoustics Research:
Recently we have organized exhibitions that combine art and technology. We now develop research of music technology and cooperate with famous international artists and music institutions. To foster the core competence of creation and performance, we have been in the vanguard aimed at Music Technology and Applied Digital Music for years.
●Highlights：
1. Historical Object Conservation Research Center:
We improve the analytical ability of conservation through purchasing analytical equipment. Meanwhile there are ten project plans running regularly with 100% achievement. Through the plans we effectively increase the professionalism and timeliness of our students and meet the needs of industry and government. We further construct a cultural property restoration in Northern Taiwan which is recognized by authority and offer courses to foster talented individuals.
2. Innovation Center for Art and Technology:
We plan to offer three multi-learning courses, two art-technological performances, and three industry-academy cooperation plans this year, which are “Using Augmented Reality Technology to construct a Gamified AR Venue Navigation,” “An Exhibition on International Concern for Taiwan Political Prisoners,” and “5G digital demonstration and development blueprint.”
3. Center for Sound Art and Acoustics Research:
We plan to offer four multi-learning courses, two performances, and seminars to attract students from different fields to perform interdisciplinary creativity, build up connections, and benefit each other in the future.
●Orientation: Develop the characteristics of school
●Project Goal: Academic research, Teacher qualification, setting of Taiwan Art Thinktank
●Summary:
Since our school majoly focuses on creation instead of academic research, we try to adjust our teaching practices to continuously elevate academic research capability with a strong foundation of creation. Through fostering talented individuals via plans and contests, holding interdisciplinary seminars, workshops, and professional learning communities, our teachers will improve the quality of research and let our students make successful and professional connections in industry that spans the globe.
●Highlights:
The art project rewards fourteen masteral and doctoral students for their outstanding performance: one bio-art installation, one series of craft art, two short films, nine seminars, and ten thesis at total. All pieces are successfully exhibited domestically and abroad because of funding. In the future, we expect to assist multiple projects in numerous platforms and open contests. We will have fourteen seminars and workshops on writing of research proposals during the current year. We target technological art and schedule a set of lectures, exploring the interaction between art and technology. We also encourage teachers and students to practice multi-media creation and thus have diverse extensions. All of these activities are supported and enriched with experience by our president and vice president.
Taiwan Association of Cultural Policy Studies (TACPS) inaugurate five professional groups and hold activities such as lectures, workshops, forums and seminars across a wide range of disciplines. With the live streaming software, more people can join the activities in distance despite the pandemic. Transdisciplinary Research Group on art history and art theory publishes Heartvillage.jpeg: photography project in Beitou at the end of this year. The photography project is one form of art that has been engaging actively and positively in social affairs and to fully understand the role of art in Village Culture of Taiwan and its heterogeneous context. Specific art words research group assembles to start the editing of vocabularies and finish the collection of twenty words this year.
●Orientation: Develop the characteristics of school
●Project Goal: Greater Taipei Arts Festival
●Summary:
Cultural governance is the key policy of developed countries and cultural institution establishment is the key index of city development. Thus NTUA built the Performing Arts Center, completed the project management of theater, provided qualified content of performance, and aimed to be a new local landmark for international arts. Furthemore, the Art Festival held by NTUA has been one of the characteristics of Banqiao District.
●Highlights：
The performance of Art Festival in 2020: five programs, seven shows, seven workshops, eighteen local action teams, three hundred and sixty nine interns, and four thousands eight hundreds ninety five people that are benefited.
1. Brand operation of NTUA: Since 2016, there have been 35 programs and 51 shows of Da Guan International Performing Arts Festival. We invite performance teams worldwide annually, and introduce contemporary performance to the audience. Due to the serious Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic nowadays, international performance art people cannot visit Taiwan. We reschedule the content of programs and concentrate on NTUA itself. Students and alumni of NTUA college of performing arts, department of music, department of dance, department of chinese music, department of drama, and PoYouSet assemble to show the rigorous power of art.
2. Promotion of art education: A Kaleidoscope of Chinese Music is the special event for disadvantaged students in remote areas to introduce the knowledge of musical instruments and performance content. To shoulder and fulfil social responsibilities as a higher art educational system, NTUA responds to social demands and in-depth art inclusiveness.
3. Cultivation of multicultural competence: Da Guan International Performing Arts Festival is the collaboration and engagement of all our teachers and students. We expect to connect industry and academic areas locally and globally and create opportunities for internships. Specifically, we have internships programs for administrative interns, social media manager interns, marketing interns, receptionist interns, and back-end interns.