Institute for Creative and Digital Cultures
The Institute for Creative and Digital Cultures was launched at the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China in 2011 and is based in the Division of International Communications.
The Institute for Creative and Digital Cultures is inter-disciplinary in nature, encouraging collaboration within and without the university on the following broad themes: the creative industries, transnational cinema, affective lives and visual cultures, the Chinese media, and digital cultures. Its aim is both to maintain our existing research strengths and develop new opportunities that arise from our location in China and our growing post-graduate research activity.
Upcoming Events
Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts Conference 2011:| Connected Communities: global or local2local?
4th - 7th September 2011
Delegates from all over the world, including China, Australasia, United States and Europe, will explore and exchange current knowledge and future research opportunities in the rapidly advancing area of digital humanities. The DRHA brings together academics and artists, connected by their interest in digital research and resources, and transcending traditional boundaries of scholarly disciplines.
Public Art Exhibition and Symposium on ‘Political Poster Art in China'
June 2011
Working in collaboration with Yang Pei Ming (Owner/Director) of the ‘Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Centre’ this will be a two week exhibition containing 50 -70 pieces from Yang Pei Ming’s collection along with a talk regarding his own experiences at university in China during the Cultural Revolution, with a historical and political/aesthetic engagement with the proliferation of woodcut style posters appearing at this time (including the CR red guard movement; the anti ‘Lin Biao and Confucius movement’; the anti- ‘Gang of Four’ movement etc.). The symposium will explore a complex period of cultural history that witnessed a renaissance in the visual arts as a cultural mode of communication.
Shanghai Visual Cultures
June 2011
Over the last decade, alongside China’s rapid modernisation and urbanisation, there has been a surge of academic interest in the emerging and changing cultures of Shanghai, a city whose growth epitomizes and symbolizes China’s changes. One of the main sources of attraction is the increased inter-cultural nature of Western and Chinese visual cultures as they are emerging in new and old art spaces, communities, cinemas, galleries, streets, and the like.
The aim of this symposium is to foster international cooperative research into these visual cultures in Shanghai, and to forge multilateral relations between Chinese and international postgraduates and early career researchers. The aim is to begin building a network of emerging scholars that can publish, apply for grants, assist local development, and produce visual culture together. Intended outcomes include future grant applications, publishing opportunities, new creative methodologies, professional development, as well as the fostering of social and creative capital.
The symposium will ask participants to explore what it means when we call ourselves cultural researchers of visual cultures, and to reflect on how research can contribute to strengthening the community’s involvement in Shanghai life through visual cultures, as well as consider its ethical implications. As a starting point for participants, it is suggested that in a world that is increasingly globalised, diverse and technologically mediated, new practices are required to address the cultural challenges and contradictions that exist in modern Shanghai.