Photographic Studies 1

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2011:

This subject encourages students to explore their ideas using a range of processes and to access digital and moving image resources. Students determine the nature of their practice under the critical guidance of tutorial staff. Theory is introduced with an assignment component designed to pose conceptual problems. Students are required to develop a critical language through which their work can be articulated to the tutorial group. Students are required to access via group discussion, slide talks and gallery excursions, a comprehensive knowledge of national and international contemporary art practice.

Assessment is based on a substantial body of work featuring resolved images/installations and elaborate documentation of installations. An ideas book developed throughout the semester which has evidence of the processes explored in the development of submitted works, important reference materials, documentation from tutorials including a summary of your outside tutorial and technical data which you consider relevant. A selection of assigned work. (100%).

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This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

At the completion of the course or subject students should be able to:

• demonstrate capacities for artistic imagination, creativity, transformation and interpretation;
• demonstrate practical skills in respect of critical analysis, problem solving, report writing, team work and oral and written communication;
• demonstrate a flexible and innovative approach to the national and international challenges for the professional visual artist in the 21st century;
• work at various levels, both as an individual and as a team member, in a wide variety of visual artistic environments;
• demonstrate an open, independent and inquiring attitude towards contemporary cultural developments and new ideas;
• understand their relationship with and responsibility to their cultural environment and society.