当代艺术与社会思想研究所

当代艺术与社会思想研究所

当代艺术与社会思想研究所

Institute of Contemporary Art & Social Thoughts (ICAST)

当代艺术与社会思想研究所(ICAST)隶属于中国美术学院跨媒体艺术学院,位于中国杭州,是一个培养博士和硕士研究生的策展教学机构。ICAST致力于建构社会思想、媒体实验、当代艺术与策展实践的互动知识体系,探讨艺术作为一种社会思想形式对于当代智性和感性知识生产的意义。

ICAST联合国内外著名策展人、艺术家与学者,以文化研究、策展实践、媒体实验、艺术创作等四维互动的教育框架,培养具有现实感受力与独立实践能力的策展人和批评家。

The Institute of Contemporary Art & Social Thoughts (ICAST) is part of the School of Intermedia Art at the China Academy of Art, located in Hangzhou, China. ICAST is an institute of curatorial studies for doctoral and master’s degree candidates.

The Institute is devoted to building an integrated knowledge system that brings together social thought, media experimentation, and diverse art and curatorial practices. Here, art is positioned as a form of social thought that contributes to the production of intellectual and perceptual knowledge.

The teaching staff of ICAST consists of established curators, artists, and scholars from around the world. ICAST’s educational framework is based on a four-way interaction between cultural studies, curatorial practice, media experiments, and artistic creation. The degree programme is designed to cultivate critics and curators with both intellectual vigour and the capacity to realize independent projects.