vpa2tmc studio practice
STUDIO: PRACTICE & THEORY C
VPA2TMC
2016
Credit points: 30
Subject outline
In this subject students will engage in and examine current issues in visual arts practice and theory. This will form a context for the production of creative works, enabling the student to recognize approaches to contemporary themes in art practice. The critical analysis of contemporary art provides the framework for the students' own developing practice and in-depth of knowledge of visual media. This application is explored through their studio practice leading to a personal expressive use of media in the students' chosen visual arts discipline. The student will demonstrate their approach through the production of artworks and Identify and analyze several artists specific to their practice whose work creates a discourse or response to contemporary ethical and cultural issues in their creative, written and oral assignments.
SchoolSchool of Humanities & Social Sciences
Credit points30
Subject Co-ordinatorElliot Howard
Available to Study Abroad StudentsYes
Subject year levelYear Level 2 - UG
Exchange StudentsYes
Subject particulars
Subject rules
Prerequisites VPA1TMB
Co-requisitesN/A
Incompatible subjectsN/A
Equivalent subjectsN/A
Special conditionsN/A
Learning resources
Readings
Resource Type | Title | Resource Requirement | Author and Year | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Readings | Camera Lucida: reflections on photography | Preliminary | Barthes R 1993 | LONDON: VINTAGE |
Readings | Conceptual Art: a critical anthropology | Preliminary | Alberro A & Stimson B 1999 | CAMBRIDGE, MASS MIT |
Readings | Illuminations | Preliminary | Walter B 1999 | LONDON PIMLICO |
Readings | Inside the white cube: the ideology of the gallery space | Preliminary | O'Doherty B 1999 | BERKERLEY: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS |
Readings | Making Do | Preliminary | Dominic Eichler | FRIEZE |
Readings | Postproduction: Culture as Screenplay: How Art Reprograms the world | Preliminary | Bourriaud N 2002 | LUKAS & STERNBERG NY |
Readings | Protest and Survive | Preliminary | Metzger & Godfrey 2007 | FRIEZE |
Readings | Relational Aesthetics | Preliminary | Bourriaud, N 2002 | DIJON: LES PRESSES DU REL |
Readings | Simulations | Preliminary | Baudrillard J 1983 | NY: SEMIOTEXT |
Readings | The Beauty of distance: songs of survival in a precarious age: 17th Biennale of sydney | Preliminary | David E 2010 | BIENNALE OF SYDNEY, THAES & HUDSON |
Readings | The Originality of the Avant-Garde and other modernist myths | Preliminary | Rosalind K E 1985 | CAMBRIDGE: MASS MIT |
Readings | The Thames and Hudson dictionary of art terms | Preliminary | Lucie Smith E. 1984 | LONDON |
Readings | The Three ecologies | Preliminary | Guatarri F 2000 | NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ: ATHLONE PRESS |
Readings | Visual Methodologies | Preliminary | Rose, Gillian | THOUSAND OAKS: NEW DELHI |
Readings | Vitamin P: new perspective in painting | Preliminary | Tomma Abts, Franz Ackermann, Nader Ahriman 2002 | PHAIDON, NY |
Readings | Ways of Seeing | Preliminary | Berger J 1972 | NY: THE VIKING PRESS |
Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes
01. Apply relevant skills and knowledge to produce and realize works, artefacts and forms of creative expression
- Activities:
- Produce a coherent folio of artwork developed around a theme
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Creative Problem-solving(Creative Problem-solving)
02. Demonstrate the skills and knowledge of the practice, languages, forms. materials. technologies and techniques in the creative arts discipline
- Activities:
- Conduct research into artists and the materials used through primary and secondary sources.
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Inquiry/ Research(Inquiry/ Research)
03. Develop and demonstrate an understanding of visual expression within a specific visual arts medium
- Activities:
- Develop and identify skills within contemporary art practice that relate concepts that the student is exploring in their discipline
04. Develop and evaluate ideas, concepts and processes by thinking creatively, critically and reflectively
- Activities:
- To build an understanding of contemporary visual arts practice and evaluate your practice within this context and your own developing skills
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Critical Thinking(Critical Thinking)
05. Interpret, communicate about artworks, concepts, materials and technologies used in specific visual arts discipline
- Activities:
- Use writing skills to show an understanding of art practice specific to a consolidating skills in a specific discipline
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Writing(Writing)
06. Interpret, communicate about artworks, concepts, materials and technologies used in specific visual arts discipline.
- Activities:
- Use oral skills to present an understanding of a contemporary context in which your art practice relates.
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Speaking(Speaking)
07. Interpret, communicate and present ideas, problems and arguments in modes suited to a range of audiences
- Activities:
- Understand how to critically place artworks in a contemporary context
08. Work independently or collaboratively in a creative arts discipline in response to project demands
- Activities:
- Peer group critics of studio work
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Teamwork(Teamwork)
Subject options
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Bendigo, 2016, Semester 1, Day
Overview
Online enrolmentYes
Maximum enrolment sizeN/A
Enrolment information
Subject Instance Co-ordinatorElliot Howard
Class requirements
SeminarWeek: 10 - 22
One 2.0 hours seminar other recurrence on weekdays during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via face-to-face.
TutorialWeek: 10 - 22
One 1.0 hours tutorial other recurrence on weekdays during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via face-to-face.
LectureWeek: 10 - 22
One 1.0 hours lecture other recurrence on weekdays during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via face-to-face.
Assessments
Assessment element | Comments | % | ILO* |
---|---|---|---|
Contemporary art essay (1600 word equivalent) | 20 | 05 | |
Group discussions, present through digital images (800 word equivalent) | 10 | 08 | |
Practical studio component (1600 word equivalent) | 20 | 03 | |
Presentation of a coherent folio of artwork in your discipline (1600 word equivalent) | 20 | 01 | |
Presentation of a developmental artworks (400 word equivalent) | 5 | 07 | |
Presentation of artworks in a specific visual arts discipline (800 word equivalent) | 10 | 04 | |
Seminar presentation and participation (800 word equivalent) | 10 | 06 | |
Studio research journal (400 word equivalent) | 5 | 02 |
Mildura, 2016, Semester 1, Day
Overview
Online enrolmentYes
Maximum enrolment sizeN/A
Enrolment information
Subject Instance Co-ordinatorKristian Haggblom
Class requirements
LectureWeek: 10 - 22
One 1.0 hours lecture other recurrence on weekdays during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via face-to-face.
TutorialWeek: 15 - 22
One 1.0 hours tutorial other recurrence on weekdays during the day from week 15 to week 22 and delivered via face-to-face.
SeminarWeek: 10 - 22
One 2.0 hours seminar other recurrence on weekdays during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via face-to-face.
Assessments
Assessment element | Comments | % | ILO* |
---|---|---|---|
Contemporary art essay (1600 word equivalent) | 20 | 05 | |
Group discussions, present through digital images (800 word equivalent) | 10 | 08 | |
Practical studio component (1600 word equivalent) | 20 | 03 | |
Presentation of a coherent folio of artwork in your discipline (1600 word equivalent) | 20 | 01 | |
Presentation of a developmental artworks (400 word equivalent) | 5 | 07 | |
Presentation of artworks in a specific visual arts discipline (800 word equivalent) | 10 | 04 | |
Seminar presentation and participation (800 word equivalent) | 10 | 06 | |
Studio research journal (400 word equivalent) | 5 | 02 |