OCAD University
Toronto, Canada

“The International Art Collaboration Studio was initiated in the Photography program in 2010, but now includes students from many disciplines, this year – Photography, Sculpture/Installation, Integrated Media and Graphic Design. Cross-disciplinary practices are key to OCAD’s environment and INTAC embodies this philosophy, attracting students interested in international and collaborative experiences, in cultural exchange and online communication. This fits well with OCAD’s commitment to exploring digital culture and its relationship to contemporary art. Understanding that the local and global are inextricably linked in today’s world, INTAC hopes to create direct experiences for the participants and forge ongoing networks of creative individuals.”

~ Prof. Peter Sramek,
Prof. Meera Margaret Singh
Photography, Faculty of Art, OCADU

OCAD University is located in Canada’s largest urban centre, offers a full complement of Art and Design, as well as focused Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies programs leading to BFA, BDES and BA degrees.

TAMK University of Applied Sciences
Tampere, Finland

“Photography, Video, Performance and Media art in general are among interdisciplinary tools that students from TAMK are using in INTAC. The key aims are to develop an environmentally, socially and ethically sustainable learning platform and to motivate the growing number of participating students who have been intensively joining INTAC since 2010. INTAC is a new way of collaborative working – producing creative inventions, developing students’ project management skills and critical thinking in the international contemporary art scenes – denaturalizing a Nero myth, the romanticized idea of a lonely, Nero-like artist who does masterpieces alone in the studio.”

~ Dr. Juha Suonpää, Head of Fine Arts, TAMK.

Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) is located in the second largest city in Finland and is ranked as one of the most popular universities in Finland according to the number of yearly applicants. The Faculty of Art, Music and Media offers a variety of BA programs such as Music, Film and Television, Interactive Media and Fine Art. In 2014, the Fine Art Program is being merged into the international English-speaking Media and Arts program with a future, which is open for applicants from all over the world.

Chung-Ang University
Seoul, South Korea

“INTAC is a creative art activity of working on collaborative projects with students from universities around the world. It uses a team-based environment in which ideas and materials have been exchanged through Skype, blogs and social media. Using group meetings, video conferencing and the online learning management system, as well as more public and popular social networking tools, students communicate and develop projects under professors and instructors at each school. Students should be willing to take the lead in building new relationships, sharing ideas and communicating online. Through the art project ‘Fake’ students were highly motivated and able to work well with each other in an environment where online communication activity is at the core of the process.”

~ YongHwan Lee,
Prof. Silas Fong
Prof. Gustav Hellberg
Department of Photography, CAU.

Chung-Ang University (CAU) is a private institution with 30,000 students and 982 faculty members. It consists of 10 undergraduate colleges and 16 graduate schools over two campuses, in Seoul and Anseong, Korea. Established in 1918, CAU has endured through the painful course of Korea’s modern history, upholding its ideal of “Truth and Justice”. Since then, CAU has taken a leading role in nurturing intellectuals of the nation. Respected as leading institution providing quality education, CAU has sped up the pace of innovation in local education. Fully accredited by the Ministry of Education and Science Technology of Korea, CAU offers a wide range of bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programs including a law school, global MBA programs and a medical school. Thanks to these schools’ vibrant activities, CAU gained top recognition in the nation from the MEST for the last eight years. As a major private institution, Chung-Ang University is fully committed to guiding its Korean and international students to envision their life goals and achieve their maximum potential in the increasingly competitive global society.

University of Europe for Applied Sciences
Berlin, Germany

“Since 2013, UE Berlin campus has participated in INTAC as a full member, cooperating with the other three schools, organizing exhibitions, collaborative research possibilities and guest lectures. The frame of INTAC is allowing UE to open its curriculum to sharable, interdisciplinary art projects and in the last two semesters about 35 students from BTK have actively participated. Each school is working to create exhibition opportunities and my connections in Slovakia will take us next November to Bratislava.”

~ Prof. Walter Bergmoser, Vice Rector, UE.

The INTAC partners at the University of Europe for Applied Sciences(UE) are located in the Berlin design and art campus. The university challenges and trains the creative minds of the future in five Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) programs – Motion Design, Interaction Design, Communication Design, Illustration and Photography. Further opportunities exist in the Design/Media Spaces Master of Arts (M.A.) program.

At UE Berlin, modern design is combined with the traditional aspects of applied art and the innovative possibilities of new media. UE offers interdisciplinary study programs in both German and English, which enable students to explore the interface of both analogue and digital means of visual expression, and in so doing, help them to influence and determine the future of design.

Wuhan Textile University, School of Art And Design
Wuhan, China

"INTAC allows the Graduate students in Photography to develop communication and cooperation with students around the world. It gives them a totally new experience to create their works through online communication channels".

~ Dr. Liu Fan, School of Art And Design, WTU

WTU, located in the middle of China, has more than one million university students. WTU is known for providing a high quality, student-oriented education in a multi-disciplinary environment that integrates engineering, science, arts, economics and management.

Autonomous University of the State of Mexico, Faculty of Arts
Toluca, Mexico

"INTAC is an ideal project for the university as students can learn to communicate about their art and ideas with students from abroad. Students from the photographic department have been taking part and it has proved a challenging and exciting experience. As we continue in the network, we hope our students will be able to work more collaboratively over the internet and we also want to encourage students from other departments to participate. We were delighted to hold the INTAC exhibition April of 2015. It was a wonderful opportunity for students from abroad to exhibit and visit Japan and also to introduce INTAC to the students here.”

~ Prof. Sofia Sienra
Prof. Cynthia Ortega
Faculty of Media, UAEMEX

UAEMex was founded in 1956, and has become one of the main institutions for university studies in the Mexican Republic. The Art Faculty in Toluca de Lerdo, established in 1996, currently offers Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in Fine Arts, Digital Art, Film Studies and Music, as well as a Masters degree in Visual Studies. The Art Faculty joined INTAC in 2016 with students in the Digital Art program and it continues to encourage the international exchange of ideas, the learning of languages and sharing of experiences, as well as the possibilities to generate knowledge through art practice.

National Institute of Design
Ahmedabad, India

"The Photography Design Masters students have participated in INTAC, both through another international collaboration called Collective Body and then directly with the INTAC group.”

~ Rishi Singhal, Coordinator,
Amarnath Praful
Photography Design

NID offers professional education programs at Bachelors and Masters level with five faculty streams and 20 diverse design domains. The overall structure of NID’s program is a combination of theory, skills, design projects and field experiences. It is a unique institution with many problem-solving capabilities, depths of intellect and a time-tested creative educational culture in promoting design competencies and setting standards of design education. The rigorous development of the designer’s skills and knowledge through a process of ‘hands on-minds on’ is what makes the difference.

Past Partners

Osaka University of Arts
Osaka, Japan

"INTAC is an ideal project for the university as students can learn to communicate about their art and ideas with students from abroad. Students from the photographic department have been taking part and it has proved a challenging and exciting experience. As we continue in the network, we hope our students will be able to work more collaboratively over the internet and we also want to encourage students from other departments to participate. We were delighted to hold the INTAC exhibition April of 2015. It was a wonderful opportunity for students from abroad to exhibit and visit Japan and also to introduce INTAC to the students here.”

~ Assoc. Prof. Hiro Sato, Department of Photography, (retired)), OUA
Prof. Mineko Orisaku, Head of Department of Photography, OUA
Prof. Kiyotaka Morooka, Department of Photography, OUA

Osaka University of Arts is located in Osaka in Western Japan. It is a private university founded in 1945 and is the largest art university in Japan with currently 5,500 students. It offers the full range of visual arts departments as well as architecture, music, media and education. The university values a spirit of freedom, and the curricula and courses are flexible to allow students to pursue their creative goals. Internationalization is an important part of the university’s philosophy. While respecting the Japanese cultural heritage, the university encourages art with a universality that can be understood by people throughout the world.