With the inspiration and initiative of the instructional innovation of art and technology combination and performance-empowered social practice,change I to ours, the Higher Education SPROUT Project of Taipei National University of the Arts, corresponds to the four goals of the Ministry of Education, including the implementation and enhancement of instructional innovation and quality, development of the school’s features, publicity of higher education, and fulfillment of social responsibility, while improves the quality of professional subjects, innovative cooperation on interdisciplinary education and societal trends, and general supporting systems of the seven schools of TNUA. In TNUA, forward-looking flipped education is implemented to advance students’ core competencies, employability, interdisciplinarity, global mobility, and learning autonomy. At the same time, instructors and students take knowledge out of the campus and embody the concern to regions, communities, and issues. Through this, students’ personal professional knowledge will be transformed into strength for the public and connect art with themselves and others.
Implementation and Enhancement of Instructional Innovation and Quality
1. Develop Innovative Teaching Models to Enhance Educational Research Quality
TNUA attained notable achievement on developing cross-cultural and international cooperation on benchmarking, deep professional innovation, interdisciplinary and international cooperation through introducing elite instructors and training systems, supporting educators to participate in learning communities and diverse teaching methods and materials.
The achievements of TNUA include MOE’s highlight in 2020 for TNUA’s Teaching Practice Research Program of 2018 and the choice courses of Open Course Awards of Taiwan Open Course and Education Consortium to courses including History of Western Music of Professor Lu Wen-Yea 2018, Taiwan Indigo of Professor Chen Wan-Lee of Theatrical Design and Technology in 2020 of the Moocs, and TaipeiArts Doctoral Research Lab (TAD Lab) Time-Shift and Culture Preservation of Professor Wei Xin-Yi in 2020 of the OCW.
Many professors have been researching creative teaching methods throughout the MOE Teaching Practice Research Program in recent years. For instance, in the course Inter-disciplinary Drawing, Professor Lin Chun-Chi of New Media Art cooperated with professionals of various fields to explore methods of instructions on drawing through pencils, body, sounds; Professor Tu Wei-Cheng of Fine Arts combined creating with social practice, guided students to investigate, to acknowledge, and to begin undertaking for the issues of the cultures of Taiwan; also, the The practice of traditional arts on modern society: A Study on Systematic Pedagogy of Beiguan Theater music project of Professor Pan Ju-Tuan of Traditional Music was a productive course in the Program.
【Highlight】Intensive Experimental Course: the Innovative Teaching Method Reinforced by the University
In 2019, TNUA reinforced innovative teaching through performing a trial method of Intensive Experimental Course in order to ignite instructors’ enthusiasm for curriculum development and teaching innovation. In 2020, the trial method became official, subsidized five departments and seven courses covering 199 students. The Intensive Experimental Course includes flexible class hours, creative curriculum structure, diverse interdisciplinary teaching, and subsidies for introducing professionals from around the world to reduce pressure on the professors of TNUA to enhance efficiency of every course. For example, in 2020, the School of Theatre Arts invited Swedish vocal training expert Hans Harald Michael Emgård to lead students to implement, explore, and apply the professional knowledge of human body and respiration and completed high-quality sound performance in a four-week intensive experimental summer workshop of Vocal Training, Scripts, and Performing. Moreover, the School of Theatre Arts invited the President, Dean of Academic Affairs, Dean of Research & Development, Deans and Chairmans of the Schools of Theatre and Dance, Chair of the Department of Music, and Division Chief of the Academic Affairs Division to Cross-school Observation and Communication to observe the course and exchange ideas on diverse vocal training systems for performers.
Rehearsal of Angels in America, the short-term presentation of the Workshop of Vocal Training, Scripts, and Performing.
2. Theory and Practice of Arts Program Opens the Door of Artist Career
The Theory and Practice of Arts Program organized courses through the Center for General Education and Graduate Institute of Arts Administration and Management from 2017 to 2019 and listed 37 courses including Exhibition and Curating of the School of Fine Arts, Operation and Management of Symphony Orchestra of the Department of Music, and Dance Production Practicum of the Institute of Dance and Focus Dance Company through examination and project meetings in 2020 to connect about 771 students with industrial innovation right after graduation.
Aiming at raising the value and popularity of start-up and transferring the power of creativity into entrepreneurship, TNUA’s arts entrepreneurship education examined resources in 2019 and established the innovation incubation counseling system in 2020. Also, the Theory and Practice of Arts Program organized schoolwide micro business competitions Dear Dream Maker and Kantaw Creative Market, established two core curriculums on entrepreneurship including intensive winter course Entrepreneurship: Stories of the Art Entrepreneurs, arranged the course of Arts Entrepreneurship Research in the Graduate Institute of Arts Administration and Management, introduced counselings from alumni and industrial experts, encouraged students to build proposal teams to contend for the prize and offer them knowledge and experience before entering the market. Furthermore, after the material display and fundraising, the most prospective team will have opportunities to apply for programs such as U-start Plan or 創業圓夢計畫 or resources from the industry to obtain more opportunities.
The Theory and Practice of Arts Program organized courses through the Center for General Education and Graduate Institute of Arts Administration and Management from 2017 to 2019 and listed 37 courses including Exhibition and Curating of the School of Fine Arts, Operation and Management of Symphony Orchestra of the Department of Music, and Dance Production Practicum of the Institute of Dance and Focus Dance Company through examination and project meetings in 2020 to connect about 771 students with industrial innovation right after graduation.
Aiming at raising the value and popularity of start-up and transferring the power of creativity into entrepreneurship, TNUA’s arts entrepreneurship education examined resources in 2019 and established the innovation incubation counseling system in 2020. Also, the Theory and Practice of Arts Program organized schoolwide micro business competitions Dear Dream Maker and Kantaw Creative Market, established two core curriculums on entrepreneurship including intensive winter course Entrepreneurship: Stories of the Art Entrepreneurs, arranged the course of Arts Entrepreneurship Research in the Graduate Institute of Arts Administration and Management, introduced counselings from alumni and industrial experts, encouraged students to build proposal teams to contend for the prize and offer them knowledge and experience before entering the market. Furthermore, after the material display and fundraising, the most prospective team will have opportunities to apply for programs such as U-start Plan or 創業圓夢計畫 or resources from the industry to obtain more opportunities.
The Theory and Practice of Arts Program organized courses through the Center for General Education and Graduate Institute of Arts Administration and Management from 2017 to 2019 and listed 37 courses including Exhibition and Curating of the School of Fine Arts, Operation and Management of Symphony Orchestra of the Department of Music, and Dance Production Practicum of the Institute of Dance and Focus Dance Company through examination and project meetings in 2020 to connect about 771 students with industrial innovation right after graduation.
Aiming at raising the value and popularity of start-up and transferring the power of creativity into entrepreneurship, TNUA’s arts entrepreneurship education examined resources in 2019 and established the innovation incubation counseling system in 2020. Also, the Theory and Practice of Arts Program organized schoolwide micro business competitions Dear Dream Maker and Kantaw Creative Market, established two core curriculums on entrepreneurship including intensive winter course Entrepreneurship: Stories of the Art Entrepreneurs, arranged the course of Arts Entrepreneurship Research in the Graduate Institute of Arts Administration and Management, introduced counselings from alumni and industrial experts, encouraged students to build proposal teams to contend for the prize and offer them knowledge and experience before entering the market. Furthermore, after the material display and fundraising, the most prospective team will have opportunities to apply for programs such as U-start Plan or 創業圓夢計畫 or resources from the industry to obtain more opportunities.
3. Increase the Efficiency of Students’ Professional and Interdisciplinary Knowledge
In TNUA, students obtain theory knowledge, practice training, employability, and critical thinking through public presentation and communication, general education, writing, programming, innovative entrepreneurship, and interdisciplinary courses.
In recent years, many approaches have been provided to students to reach diverse and flexible learning environments. Around 180 students minored or double majored in educational programs in the past two years and 1800 students per year enroll in various programs including Interdisciplinary Appreciation of Art of General Education, Required Interdisciplinary Courses of the School of Film and New Media, art service learning, GenieLab Project, etc.
【Highlight】Intercollegiate Interdisciplinary Cooperation of New Media Art
The School of New Media Art cooperates with the Department of Architecture of Shih Chien University and the Department of Civil Engineering of National Taiwan University to organize Light Weight, a three-week intercollegiate interdisciplinary creative workshop for sophomores and junior students. In the workshop, practical skills of installation will be strengthened through the perspectives of architecture and application of media be strengthened through the perspectives of art. Students from three institutes acquire experience and feedback from various perspectives from teaming up, starting from the coming up of concepts, producing, presenting to the critiques from instructors of the three institutes. In 2018 and 2019, the Workshop produced and presented artworks in Treasure Hill Artist Village and participated in the 2020 Treasure Hill Light Festival with other artists. In 2020, 119 students and 11 instructors of the Workshop worked on 10 pieces on the theme of Tower and presented them at C-LAB.
Development of the School’s Features
TNUA established unique and long-term inter-school projects like KuanDu Light Art Festival, Technology and Music Transdisciplinary Experimental Theater, Light Weight Intercollegiate Interdisciplinary Workshop, Taipei Arts Doctoral Research Lab, and Socially Engaged Art with well-planned strategies and learning autonomy of the students.
1. Interdisciplinary Curriculum of Fusion of Art and Technology
KuanDu Light Art FestivalDevelopment of Atypical Art Site Crossover Performance
Organizer: Department of New Media Art, Center for Art and Technology (2019)
Cooperator: Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts (2020), School of Dance (2019), Department of Music (2018)
Collaborator: Department of Theatre Art, Department of Theatrical Design and Technology
Kuandu Light Art Festival, a large subversive new media theatrical experimental production of New Media Art’s curiosity after “what is interdisciplinary art”, rebelled against the material limit and the boundaries of the venue in the 2020 Kuandu Light Art Festival - Quantum Entanglement and turned the art museum into a gigantic computing machine as an artwork. Professors, students, and alumni of New Media Art cooperate with different faculties during the 2020 Kuandu Light Art Festival and organized five courses, six workshops and reached 512 students. Moreover, the exhibition of the Festival has reached 7024 people from 23, October to 22, November with seven art promenades. The Festival enriched students’ practical capability of project implementation through courses, workshops, and introductions of professionals from the industries.
Relevant Links｜關渡光藝術節 官網｜關渡光藝術節 社群平台
《2020關渡光藝術節-量子糾纏》計畫成果與特色亮點
《2020關渡光藝術節-量子糾纏》影片
360度移動地圖方式紀錄展覽成果
Media Exposure｜《2020關渡光藝術節-量子糾纏》開幕報導
藝點新聞-2020關渡光藝術節 量子糾纏變有形作品
【典藏．展演． 觀察． 觀點】機械、實驗與演繹： 漫談當今科學藝術展的藝術體驗與科學性
【Highlight】Technology and Music Transdisciplinary Experimental Theater - Post-GardenDevelopment of Interdisciplinary Art Combination of Technology and Music
Organizer: Department of Music, Department of New Media Art
Cooperator: GRAME Centre National de Création Musicale, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon, Laboratoire d’Interprète / Scénographie Instrumentale
Based on the previous international collaboration with Centre national de création musicale, GRAME led by percussionist Jean Geoffroy on various experimental interdisciplinary contemporary music and technological art projects including Incarnating Sounds (2017), Looking Sounds (2018), and Energy Transfigured (2019), the Department of Music and the Department of New Media Art stepped further to cooperate with Conservatoires Nationaux Supérieurs de Musique et de Danse de Paris et de Lyon and Laboratoire d’Interprète / Scénographie Instrumentale to create Post Garden, a Technology and Music Transdisciplinary Experimental Theater in 2020 under the lead of professors of the two departments and worked through workshops, developments, short-term presentations, rehearsals in nine months to embody an experimental and innovative performance through handmade instruments and interactive installations.
As one of the few universities which contains both New Media Art and Music with comprehensive resources of technique and appliance of hard and software and professionals, the collaboration represented an unique and indispensable breakthrough of Taiwan’s art education. The collaboration has embodied the uniqueness of the combination of art and education with the New Media team developing sight and sound with technology and the Music team combining performing and composing with technology.
Relevant Links｜《後花園：科技與音樂跨域實驗劇場》計畫成果與特色亮點
《後花園：科技與音樂跨域實驗劇場》影片
Media Exposure｜顛覆性的跨域呈現《後花園：科技與音樂跨域實驗劇場》
【Highlight】Musical Theater Begun-branch LineA Sincere, Critical, and Sensory Musical Work by Students
Cooperators: Department of Music, Department of New Media Art, Graduate Institute of Theatre Art
Begun-branch Line, the winning artwork of the Special Jury Award of Performing Art at the Taoyuan Art x Technology Festival was produced interdisciplinarily by the theatre team of students from the three faculties of TNUA with strict training from creating, producing, crowdfunding to performance. The team illustrated the indispensability of authenticity, inseparability of interdisciplinary cooperation, and the forwardness of integration of art and technology.
Relevant Links｜原創美聲音樂劇《白港-支線》展演情形
Teaser of Begun-branch Line｜導演｜作曲家｜創新形式現代歌劇工作坊辦理成效
2.Performance-driven Knowledge: Interdisciplinary Creating and Learning
In 2020, students participated and experienced the issues of the society and used art to demonstrate the problems and create new definitions and messages.
【Highlight】The Fragrance of Living Water III : Dance, Music, and Cultural Heritage
Cooperating Courses:
-Theories and Practices of Traditional Music of the Department of Music,
-Form and Style in Performance of the Institute of Dance,
-Fieldwork and Conservation of Folklore I of the Graduate Institute of Architecture and Cultural Heritage
The Fragrance of Living Water Project has been reaching out to communities and people including Folklore Festival of Tudigong in Taoyuan or traditional art workers in Vietnam and Cambodia for three years. In 2020, students reached deeper into cultural heritage, traditional art and folk culture through classes and field trips and turned the knowledge and experience into inspirations for artworks like Through Mist and Rain, a piece choreographed by Professor Zhang Xiao-Xiong of the Institute of Dance with the other two departments to demonstrate the interaction of traditional music and contemporary dance.
Performance of Through Mist and Rain
Relevant Links｜跨域混創學習「活水的芬芳」計畫成果與特色亮點｜《一簑煙雨》排練影片｜舞蹈影像
Media Exposure｜疫情間尋找平靜的力量 張曉雄舞一蓑煙雨｜ 一蓑煙雨 舞出生命坦然態度
Enhancement of the Publicity of Higher Education
1.Comprehensive Admission Benefit
In order to coordinate with the Higher Education Sprout Project of Enhancement of the Publicity of Higher Education, TNUA offers admissions and support for outstanding students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Moreover, TNUA offers diverse admission approaches including Ｍulti-star Project Recommends Admission, Individual Enrollment, Individual Application, Four-Year College of Technology/Two-Year Junior College Special Selection and other benefits for outstanding students from disadvantaged backgrounds. The admission number of bachelor programs has increased from 7.18% in 2018 to 9.21% in 2019 through the support for the students. However, the number of applicants decreased by 27.6% in 2020, therefore, the admission rate was 6.8%, lower by 26% than 2019. The admission rates of the students from disadvantaged backgrounds have maintained a certain ratio since the rates were in the range from 0.25% to 0.27% in the past three years.
In order to inform more students from disadvantaged backgrounds about admissions and benefits, TNUA organizes art workshops and visits to reach students. In the first two seasons 2020, activities were canceled due to COVID-19; and in the last two seasons of 2020, TNUA held on-line or real-life experiential classes with high schools of prospective students. According to the record from 2020, among the students who attended the admission events, 7.1% were from disadvantaged families, 6.4% from offshore island or remote regions, 1.9% with indigenous background, 2.6% from families of immigrants, and 0.4% with special needs and it shown that about 2 to 3% of the students were economically or culturally disadvantaged.
【Highlight】Special Admission for Distinctive Students
Special Admission for Disadvantaged Students with Distinctive Artistic Talents
Each department set its own standard to provide opportunities, counseling, and resources to outstanding students with enthusiasm for learning but with disadvantaged or special educational backgrounds (overseas Taiwanese students, children of immigrants, students of experimental education). According to the survey, 40 economically disadvantaged students were among the 161 students of Special Admission of 2021, which grew by 21% from the previous year. The Department of Theatre Art recruited only disadvantaged students and the rate increased by 34.6%, which showed that the Special Admission is critical for scouting talents.
2.Indigenous Students Resource Center supports Friendly Campus
TNUA established Indigenous Students Resource Center on 1, July, 2020 and cut the ribbon on 22, October, got ready to offer comprehensive counseling service, provide a secure campus for students, and reassure a diverse and friendly environment. In 2020, the Center surveyed the level of indigenous language and origin of each student to understand the background of the indigenous students.
3. Resource Sharing and the Transparency of the Performance
TNUA updates information of its performance in teaching, creating, performing, extension education, events with community and industries annually on various approaches including the public platform of school affair, APP of school affair, announcements on the school’s website. TNUA has reached 92 institutes and 47661 people in 482 events including annual exhibitions and performances, festivals, practical courses, admission events, art experiential courses, and other projects in 2020.
Relevant Links｜本校辦理藝術推廣教育計畫｜本校執行教育部美感教育中程發展計畫｜本校校務資訊公開平臺｜本校高等教育深耕計畫網站
Fulfillment of Social Responsibilities
Through the establishment of the USR Hub, TNUA connects with local communities, builds systematic knowledge base of local historical studies, and transforms cultures with creativity to fulfill its social responsibility. In 2020, four subprojects acquired subsidy and support from TNUA with one project personnel and one million NTD of commercial cost.
Relevant Links｜本校藝術社會實踐中心｜本校USR計畫Hi-Five Plus: 從北投平埔族群到屏東原住民的國際藝術對話｜本校藝術服務學習成果
【Taipei City, Beitou】Guandu -Fun Guandu Festival Moved from TNUA to Independent Operation
Fun Guandu, a festival organized by TNUA and connected with schools in Guandu, village office, communities, social organizations, and Taipei City Government in 2015, has become a role model of humanity reformation, concern for local, and community empowerment. In 2019, Gandu Culture and Art Foundation was founded by TNUA and communities. In 2020, Fun Guandu has transformed to a foundation-supported independent event.
【Taitung County, Guanshan】Drama Creation Project for Guanshan Old Story Art Festival in Taitung - the Battle at Thunderbolt
The project is focused on cultural sustainability, such as culture and traditional artistry of indigenous people in Taitung. Therefore, after several discussions and cultural programs, Kaadaadaan Village in Guanshan, Taitung, an independently developed community, was chosen to be the location of A Traditional Story of the Battle at Thunderbolt, an annual theatre project since 2013, and Director Sun Wei-Jhen visited Guanshan to work with elders and residents in the Kaadaadaan tribe to create the performance of 2019.
The engagement of elders in plot and playwriting, stage properties making, scene design, and Kaadaadaan folk songs was the original goal of the program. However, to empower children and young people to know their own culture, artistry, and music, the program helped the next generation to learn performance management, music, cloth dyeing artwork, bark artwork, and wooden knife making through workshops dedicated to the annual theater show in 2019.
【Taitung County,Green Island】2020 Green Island Human Rights Art Festival “Remembrance & Marginalization – TNUA Special Exhibition
After a semester of reading and sharing of issues, students pondered the issues of their concern and studied deeper into the early democracy of Taiwan and demonstrated them with artworks. Judges include Chen Chun-Hung, Director of National Human Rights Museum, Chen Kai-huang, President of TNUA, Lai Shu-Ya from the Centre for Applied Theatre Taiwan, Tsai Hai-Ru, artist of the 2019 Green Island Human Rights Art Festival, will choose five outstanding artworks to participate in the 2020 Green Island Human Rights Art Festival: the TNUA Special Exhibition. The artworks demonstrate memories through visual paintings, new media art, theatrical installations in the perspective of marginalization of Green Island in the history and revert the thoughts of contemporary Taiwan society.
Relevant Links｜2020綠島人權藝術季－北藝大特展