by admin | May 15, 2023
MUSE, for My University Spotlight Encounters, was created as a collaboration between the Cultural Management Office (CMO) and the Music Department to offer framed artistic experiences with intellectual engagement, and to fulfil the bigger creative objective of taking...
by admin | Nov 21, 2022
In 2012, American artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg unveiled a new project, Stranger Visions, consisting of portraits derived from people’s DNA that she had extracted from detritus collected from the street – cigarette butts, lollipop sticks, strands of hair and the like....
by admin | Nov 21, 2022
In the summer of 2019, Dr Peter J Cobb, a joint appointee of the Faculties of Education and Arts, decided to create a course around his archaeological fieldwork in Armenia. The idea was that HKU students would travel to the country the following summer to help with...
by admin | Nov 20, 2022
Professor Stephen Yiu-Wai Chu’s book Main Melody Films: Hong Kong Directors in Mainland China, was partly prompted by the words of President Xi Jinping at the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 2017 when he said: “Our compatriots in Hong...
by admin | Nov 20, 2022
In 1977, NASA launched its two Voyager spaceships to travel to the distant reaches of the galaxy. Attached to each vessel was the ‘Golden Record’, an LP made of gold-plated copper containing 90 minutes of music from around the world, as well as a montage of other...
