29 Nov 2013

Wearable Art and Technology - Call for applications: PhD at CityU

The School of Creative Media of the City University of Hong Kong is now accepting admissions for the Doctor of Philosophy in Creative Media. Deadline for all uploaded documents December 4th 2013. Applicants are strongly advised to submit draft applications as soon as possible so they can get feedback before final submission.

School of Creative Media (SCM), founded in 1998, is Hong Kong's first institution committed to research across art, computing, technology, animation, music, sociology, and engineering.

Candidates will have advanced knowledge of media art, art history, arts institutions, and curating, or relevant fields of inquiry. They are required to hold a minimum four-year Bachelor's degree with Honours, and a research Master's qualification in a relevant discipline. Candidates should apply with a research project relevant to SCM's research foci and PhD supervisory expertise. Given the very nature of creative media and media art, interdisciplinary projects as well as those with an element of practice-based research are encouraged. Numerous scholarships covering the cost of PhD studies are available at the governmental level as well as at the level of the City University of Hong Kong and are awarded after assessment of the academic merits and artistic potential of the candidates.

Please visit the link below to see more about the wide range of subjects covered by our full team of PhD supervisors. This announcement highlights the research expertise of one of SCM's PhD supervisors.

Miu Ling

Dr. Miu Ling Lam is a robotic scientist and a media artist. Her research interests include cloud robotics, internet of things, complex systems, multifingered robotic grasps, wireless sensor networks and art-science.

Area of supervision

Cloud Robotics - The cloud computing frameworks can allow robots to offload compute-intensive tasks, to access to vast online resources, and to download and share new knowledge. Our group is developing new models and algorithms to create cloud-enabled robots that outperform traditional regime of robots.

Smartphone-based Robots - Modern mobile devices are becoming more powerful and equipped with sensors that are useful for robots. We are developing a set of smartphone-based robotic models that leverages the computational, networking and sensing capability of smartphones for robotic applications, and to allow dynamic acquisition of new knowledge for robots.

Art-Science & New Media Art Forms - We collaborate with artists and scientists to develop art-science projects on a range of inspiring topics such as complex systems, emergence, developmental biology, pattern formation, phyllotaxis, cymatics, neuroscience and algorithmic/generative art.

Wearable Art and Technology - This project aims to exploit e-textiles and wearable technologies to open a new paradigm to embed wearable products with electronics and reactive garments to create innovative and artistically fashionable designs.

More info at: miulinglam.com


For details on other research fields: www.scm.cityu.edu.hk/programmes/postgraduate/research-degrees/