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Renaming from Visual Studies (VS) to Digital Arts and Creative Industries (DACI)

16/01/2023|News
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We are happy to inform you that, the Department of Visual Studies (VS) is now called the Department of Digital Arts and Creative Industries (DACI)

In 2009, the Department of Visual Studies launched the Visual Studies (VS) programme, which was originally housed in the Department of Philosophy. The VS curriculum emphasizes the history, theory and expression of visual arts and material culture in China, East Asia, and the West. The Department has recently undergone ambitious changes in its programme curriculum. It introduced a new MA in Curating and Art History in 2020, and revamped the BA in Visual Studies curriculum with multidisciplinary emphases on art history, film art, and practical training in creative and media arts. The Department also introduced a new MA in Creative and Media Industries in 2021 and a new BA in Creative Media Industries (Senior Year Programme) in 2022. In addition to these new programmes, the Animation and Digital Arts (ADA) programme migrated to VS, which is the most significant advancement for VS.

As a result of the department’s growth over the past few years, our academic staff are international and drawn from a variety of disciplines across film and media studies, media industries and policies, museum studies, and contemporary art. Understanding the interplay between film and new media, contemporary arts, and the creative industries is indeed the focus of the department today. Therefore, we believe it makes sense to have a new name - Digital Arts and Creative Industries - that reflects what we do and what we intend to do in the future, as well as the changing market conditions in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area.