History
1993 |
Foundation of EPAC by Patrizia Abderhalden, director |
1995 |
Foundation of the department of Strip Cartoons by Gzergorz Rosinski, international artist, draftsman of “Thorgal” and a many others..... |
Contract of collaboration with the Academy of Warsaw and its dean Stanislaw Wiecorek |
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1996 |
Foundation of the department of Kinetics by Inn Yang Low, artist and oversea director |
1998 |
Foundation of the department of Creative Engineering by Dr.Pierre Dutoit, physician |
1999 |
Creation of the symposium “Art and Science”, organized by P. Abderhalden, Inn Yang (E. H. Low) and G. Praz with the collaboration of the University Institute Kurt Boesch. This first edition theme, based on Frank Popper works, was focused on “The Virtual or the Consciousness of the Artificial” |
2000 |
Foundation of the department of New Media by Gilles Vuissoz, web designer |
2001 |
The district of Saxon transforms its old theatre into EPAC and in this way benefits from a space dedicated to art and culture |
2003 |
Accreditation by E.A.B.H.E.S for the “European Bachelor of Fine Arts”, with concentration in Strip Cartoons/Illustration and New Media |
eduQua Swiss quality label certification by the SGS, for the in-house training |
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2004 |
Contract of collaboration with the “St-Luc Institute”, Brussels, Belgium and the “Academy of Fine Arts”, Cracow, Poland |
2005 |
Accreditation by E.A.B.H.E.S for the “European Master of Fine Arts”, Majoring in Sequential Art / Creation and International Distribution |
2007 |
Creation of the Foundation “SEQEUNCE”, E.H. Low, Dr. Bersier, St. Siviero, P.Abderhalden, Foundation to support art plan between different Universitys and to have more mobility for the students |
2008 |
Exchange program with the “Tainan National University of Arts”, Tnnua, and the “Ming Chuan University”, Taiwan, R.O.C. |
2009 |
Contract of collaboration with the Academy of Cracow, Poland and the Ming Chuan University, Tapei, Taiwan |
2010 |
Students exchanges with the Ming Chuan University |
2011 |
Foundation of the department of Game Art by Thomas Crausaz |
Contract of collaboration with the “Taiwan National University of Art", Tapei, Taiwan R.O.C |
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