National Taiwan University of Arts 2018-2019 Sprout Project Results and Highlights
National Taiwan University of Arts 2018-2019 Sprout Project Results
Orientation: Implement Teaching Innovation
Project Goal: Interdisciplinary Innovative Teaching
Summary: The teachers’ innovative teaching will encourage the students’ innovative performances. In the interdisciplinary (cross-industry) conversation accompanied by the flexible and diverse courses in the teaching system, the teachers and students share the excellent achievement together.
Highlights: In 2018 and 2019, 29 diverse learning courses were offered. The teachers were from the campus, different industries, and foreign institutes, widely received by the students. The 8 seed teaching teams were formed to work with 17 public and private units for the practical courses. Among them, the teachers of Department of Motion Picture had the interdisciplinary cooperation with the judicial institutions, completed two plays of 30-minute short films, successfully applied for the subsidy of NT$4.3 million from Judicial Yuan, and produced 3 professional short films and 23 documentaries on judges.
Orientation: Implement Teaching Innovation
Project Goal: Art and Cultural Incubation, Innovation, and Startup
Summary: The workshop hands-on courses as the base will assist the students in setting up the cultural and creative studios for innovation startups. The matchmaking to the industrial resources will also help to connect with the industries.
Highlights: In 2018 and 2019, 22 innovative startup-oriented cultural and creative studios were set up. Besides producing 66 works, the works of “BEAR PICTURES” were nominated for the 56th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and won the special award for the film category from the 3rd Long Yen Da Guan Film and Photography Awards. Moreover, the workshop members participated in the great design exhibitions at “Seoul Design Festival” and “Handarty Korea” in Korea to increase the international exposure and the opportunities for industrial matchmaking.
Orientation: Develop School Characteristics
Project Goal: Promotion of Diverse International Cooperation
Summary: The international exchanges will broaden the international art vision of the teachers and students. The international alliance will invite the top artists to create internationalization at home together.
Highlights: The students are encouraged to become exchange students and join in the international exhibitions and competitions. On the other hand, the professional teachers from Russia, America, and Germany are recruited to give classes or be the artists-in-residence. The international art and cultural groups are also invited to hold workshops, such as the dance workshop led by the director of “Cie L'Oublié(e)”, Raphaëlle Boitel, and the music body workshop led by the music director of “Théâtre du Soleil”, Jean-Jacques Lemêtre, to create the opportunities for the future international cooperation.
Orientation: Develop School Characteristics
Project Goal: Quantity Value Increase of Exhibition, Performance, and Screening
Summary: The platform of Think Tank for Taiwan Cultural Policy integrates the research groups of graduate students and teachers, develops the think tank for cultural policies, and raises the academic research capacity and social influence.
Highlights: Think Tank for Taiwan Cultural Policy is established to combine the academic research and practical application capacity of the consultants, tenured and adjunct instructors, researchers, and PhD and MA students, hold 35 government-industry-university-institute forums, and actively strive for the discourse power of art and cultural policies and social influence.
Orientation: Higher Education Publicity
Project Goal: Complete and Caring Schooling Counseling
Summary: The complete schooling mechanism includes the promotion in senior high school classes, the reduction and subsidies for the examination fee, and the priority of admission in terms of recruitment as well as the economic, learning, and employment counseling measures and the comprehensive assistance for the students’ self-realization in terms of schooling.
Highlights: There is NT$17.15 million dollars from a variety of scholarships to be given to the economically and culturally disadvantaged students. In 2019, 21 students were assisted with the off-campus internship and 136 students joined the self-learning. The counseling and awarding mechanism and subsidy measures related to the economically and culturally disadvantaged students are added to the department introduction. In terms of recruitment, the students from the low-income households can join the screening test for free, and those from the middle-to-low income households will be exempt from 60% of the screening test fee. In terms of admission, Star Plan will offer 8 vacancies to the indigenous students, Individual Application will offer 17 vacancies to indigenous students, and Recommendation and Screening will offer 9 vacancies to physically or mentally disadvantaged students. The admission guide for 2020 Individual Application has the clear announcement that the economically disadvantaged students have the priority for admission.
Orientation: Higher Education Publicity
Project Goal: Professional Management of School Development
Summary: The IR system has been established to conduct the issue analysis. The electronic system of “Long Term Project Management” has been established to pursue the optimization of resource efficiency and achieve the goals of administrative management and sustainable management and development.
Highlights: The analysis of the suspension and withdrawal from day school from 2012 to 2018, the analysis of the origin of the day and night school undergraduate students, the analysis of the grades of the day school students through the different ways of admission, the survey and analysis of the 2019 day school new students’ information access, and the analysis of teaching assistants’ influence on teaching evaluation in the semesters of 2017-2 and 2018-2 are completed. The related results will serve as the reference in planning the future recruitment strategies, deciding on the recruitment targets, and raising the students’ learning effectiveness. The establishment and use of the system Long Term Project Management helps get hold of the planning, development, and expected goals of the campus projects and ensure the progress and quality of the administrative affairs through the schedule and checkpoint management.
Orientation: Social Responsibility
Project Goal: Deep-plow Da Guan Art Education Park
Summary: NTUA combines the international art energy and shares the resources with the schools of Da Guan Art Education Alliance, local communities, and people in greater Taipei to benefit the cultural and educational atmosphere in greater Taipei.
Highlights: We have assisted with 49 art and cultural societies and courses in the Art Education Park, served 1,070 senior high school, junior high school, elementary school, and kindergarten students, promoted the large performances, and further invited the students from 17 senior high, junior high, and elementary schools to the performances. The professionalism of the university has been combined to introduce the international art energy and resources to the local communities. We are dedicated to cultivating art talents and implementing local social responsibility.
Orientation: Social Responsibility
Project Goal: More Local, More International Art Practice
Summary: “Greater Taipei Arts Festival” presents the unique large international arts exhibitions in Taiwan by linking the government-industry-university-institute cooperation and the interdisciplinary innovation and provides the students with the opportunities to interact with the international important experts, scholars, and artists. At the same time, it also serves as the promoter of the local art and cultural development to increase the art atmosphere of Fuzhou, Banqiao, and shape the local developing prospect together by combining the local images, feelings, and development.
Highlights: “Greater Taipei Arts Festival” has been held for four times since 2016. In 2018 and 2019, there were 126 exhibitions/speeches and over 57,253 participants. The international art masters were invited for the coproduction to promote the international industry-university cooperation, manage the Taiwanese art brands, and deep-plow the local culture and history.
National Taiwan University of Arts 2018-2019 Sprout Project Highlights
“Greater Taipei Arts Festival” Builds the Unique Large International Arts Exhibition in Taiwan
National Taiwan University of Arts holds the large international arts event “Greater Taipei Arts Festival” to present the unique large international arts exhibitions in Taiwan by linking the government-industry-university-institute cooperation and the interdisciplinary innovation and provide the students with the opportunities to interact with the international important experts, scholars, and artists. At the same time, it also serves as the promoter of the local art and cultural development to increase the art atmosphere of Fuzhou, Banqiao, and shape the local developing prospect together by combining the local images, feelings, and development.
- Invite international art masters to co-produce and manage the Taiwanese art brand.
- In 2018, NTUA held Greater Taipei Biennial of Contemporary Art “Daily +,” inviting the winners of the Contemporary Art Award in France, Prix Marcel Duchamp, Claude Closky and Julien PRÉVIEUX, to hold exhibitions in Taiwan.
- In 2019, the world-known video artist, Gary Hill, and the computer graphics artist, Yoichiro Kawaguchi, were invited to hold exhibitions in NTUA. Da Guan International Performing Arts Festival “Towards__” invited the international art masters: the choreographer of Cie L'Oublié(e), France, Raphaëlle Boitel, the famous theatre music master and music director of Théâtre du Soleil, Jean-Jacques Lemetre, and the principal dancer of Landestheater Linz TANZLIN.Z, Austria, Andressa Miyazato. At the same time, the master workshops were held to exchange experiences and cultivate the international art talents.
- Add artistic value to local townships and deep-plow the local culture and history of Taiwan.
- In 2018, the Taiwanese famous novelist, Yi-Chin LO, was invited to be a writer-in-residence. The retrieved land on the north and south sides of the campus are made good use of as the creative exhibition space. The returned land is revitalized, and the local culture and history is organized.
- In 2019, the 15 local social welfare groups and schools (remote schools and Da Guan Art Education Park) were invited to the performances to deep plow the local art education. The number of the participants has reached 652. The film festival offered more than 700 seats for free. It was not limited to the campus; instead, it encouraged the residents of New Taipei City to participate in the art and cultural activities.
- Integrate the department professionalism to promote industry-university cooperation.
- Visual Arts: The students are assisted in organizing the curating team to plan “Snaps Omni Expo” with the contents spanning several fields including contemporary art, technology, pop music culture, fashion design, and ecological conservation.
- Performing Arts: NTUA presents the self-made program of “new theater,” “Epitome of Time,” which combines performing arts with new media and technology images through the cross-college and cross-department teamwork. It is a benchmark performance rarely found in the domestic university campus.
Photo: 2019 Da Guan International Performing Arts Festival- NTUA’s “Epitome of Time,” led by President Chen, Chih-Cheng, combines the elites of the contemporary theatre in Taiwan and creates a new milestone for performing arts in Taiwan by wandering between dance, theatre, music, and fine arts.