by admin | May 19, 2026
The Faculty of Arts has launched Music Entrepreneurship and Popular Practice (MEPoP), a pioneering initiative which aims to bridge the gap between the creative and the business sides of the music industry in Asia by bringing together artists and music business...
by admin | May 19, 2026
Books, movies and games that completely absorb one’s attention have long been described as ‘immersive’. But advances in VR production and headset technology are taking absorption to a whole other level.In Encounter Dinosaurs, developed by Hollywood director Jon...
by admin | May 19, 2026
Early research on the nascent field of GenAI creativity has produced intriguing but conflicting results. Some have found it inspires artists to push at the boundaries, while others find it homogenises output. Professor Jie Gong and Professor Yulin Fang of the HKU...
by admin | May 18, 2026
In a tech-driven world, the humanities can seem to fall by the wayside, steamrolled by the momentum behind STEM-related subjects. But in HKU’s Faculty of Arts, that story is being flipped.Under the leadership of Professor David Pomfret, who was confirmed as Dean in...
by admin | May 15, 2025
After the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984, many filmmakers and writers in Hong Kong and elsewhere speculated on the possibility of a resulting identity crisis. Professor Alvin K Wong, Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, says...
