Course Title: Exhibition Project

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Exhibition Project

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
VART3454	City Campus	Undergraduate	340H Art	Face-to-Face	Sem 2 2012, Sem 2 2013, Sem 2 2014, Sem 2 2015, Sem 2 2016, Sem 2 2017
VART3559	Hong Kong Arts Centre	Undergraduate	340H Art	Face-to-Face	Offsh3 16

Flexible Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
VART3559	Hong Kong Arts Centre	Undergraduate	340H Art	Face-to-Face	OFFSe22018 (HA33)
VART3559	Hong Kong Arts Centre	Undergraduate	340H Art	Face-to-Face	OFFSe22020 (HA33)

Course Coordinator: Dr Rhett D'Costa

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 2970

Course Coordinator Email: rhett.dcosta@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: RMIT Melbourne Campus, bld2, level 3, room 09

Course Coordinator Availability: by appointment via email

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

VART3453 Articulation and Practice Project.

Course Description

In this course you will negotiate a studio work proposal with your lecturer and be given ongoing guidance and feedback for the development of a photographic or printmaking project. This will extend your material and conceptual expertise to meet the standards of professional art practice. You will participate in individual and group reviews/tutorials which specifically contextualise your work in relationship to contemporary art practice. You will directed to appropriate resources and instructed in divergent methods sensitive to the needs of your proposed project. This course aims to give you a strong and individual folio of work and will facilitate your transition to a self-managed professional art practice.

This is a work integrated learning (WIL) course. The key feature of WIL courses is that learning experiences simulate the working life of professional practitioners. As such this course introduces you to a research based approach to object making and its related practices by working as a practicing artist in a studio based learning context.

Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

Capability Development

In this course you will develop the following program capabilities:

• find creative solutions to constraints and challenges in a fine art context
• effectively communicate via artistic production in a range of media and modes with awareness of and sensitivity to a range of local and global contexts and cultures
• develop a critically reflective arts practice, in order to continually develop, change and plan for a future that is both informed and improved by arts practice
• invent, design and construct a pro-active and critically relevant career as a member of the cultural and creative industries
• engage in autonomous and continued learning, apply new theories of practice and embrace new developments in cultural/artistic production
• form, develop and implement a vision and philosophy of art as a profession, contributing to the positive development of culture in both local and international contexts

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course you will be able to:

• develop and apply a conceptual premise for visual and theoretical research
• identify cultural reference points for your studio practice
• formulate and articulate an individual theoretical, conceptual and technical framework for an art practice
• apply independent analytical and critical research skills
• design and write an individual studio work proposal
• plan and execute an art project for public exhibition

Overview of Learning Activities

 

Your learning experience in this course involves attendance and participation in one intensive seminar at the commencement of the course and face to face learning throughout the semester.

In this course you will engage with the studio as a process of creation and as a site of practice and enquiry. It is studio based which means your learning is activated through experimenting, exploring, testing, envisioning, observing, and playing with a range of materials and art making processes and methods in a studio environment to develop you as an art practitioner.

You will engage in a range of learning activities such as making works, experimenting with materials, practice based research, workshops, presentations, demonstrations, lectorials, gallery and site visits, reflective writing, group discussions, consultations on your studio work and occupational health and safety demonstrations.

You will also receive verbal and/or written feedback from academic staff and peers through a variety of consultations and tutorials. This feedback will help you to track how your learning is progressing against the specified learning outcomes and capabilities for this course. In classes you will engage in critical reflection and reviews.

Overview of Learning Resources

Melbourne Campus

RMIT University will provide you with a range of resources and tools to engage in this course, including studio and workshop facilities, online systems and professional equipment specific to your studio area. A selected range of supplies are available, as well as support from technical staff. You will also have access to a wide range of online and hardcopy resources through RMIT University Library and the Learning Lab, via myRMIT

RMIT University is in close proximity to a broad range of galleries and cultural venues which you will be expected to visit as part of your course. Professional studio specific workshops, labs and suppliers are also readily accessible.

Hong Kong Campus
Hong Kong Art School will provide you with a range of resources and tools to engage in this course, including studio and workshop facilities, online systems and professional equipment specific to your studio area. A selected range of supplies are available, as well as support from technical staff. You will also have access to a wide range of online resources through RMIT University Library.
Hong Kong Art School is in close proximity to a broad range of galleries and cultural venues which you will be expected to visit as part of your course. Studio specific workshops, labs and suppliers are also readily accessible.
 

Overview of Assessment

You will be assessed on how well you meet the learning outcomes of this course and on your development against the program capabilities. The work resulting from your studio practice will be presented for assessment. It may consist of a range of works and/or presentation that either respond to a project outline or are self-directed and will be assessed by academic staff.

You will be assessed on how well you meet the learning outcomes of this course and on your development against the programme capabilities. The work resulting from your studio practice will be presented for assessment. It may consist of a range of works and/or presentation that either respond to a project outline or are self-directed and will be assessed by academic staff.

 Assessment will occur for both the intensive seminar and regular teaching weeks. Assessment for the intensive seminar will be formative. Your assessment for regular weeks will form 100% of your summative assessment.

Your assessment tasks for regular weeks teaching will include:

Folio and Presentation of Resolved Works

Your work should successfully demonstrate a capacity to:
• Express conceptual and embodied knowledge
• Effectively communicate through art production
• Work independently in response to your Studio Project aims and methods
• Demonstrate the relationship between preliminary and resolved works

Research Journal, Documentation, Support and Developmental Materials

Your work should successfully demonstrate a capacity to:
• Examine and document relations between new and existing bodies of work and ways suggest new possibilities for development
• Link conceptual ideas to the use of materials, technologies and art practice
• Identify artistic and cultural influences in your work enabling you to discuss the field of practice

Studio Project Work Proposal

You should demonstrate a capacity to:
• Initiate a written Studio Project Work Proposal that articulates a contextual focus and intent to your Studio Project
• Include your ways of working and relevant outcomes
• Compile a preliminary bibliography of texts, artist’s, artworks and films or other documents that appropriately contextualise your Studio Project

Feedback Reflections

Your work should successfully demonstrate a capacity to:
• Discuss and critique own work and the work of others
• Identify, transcribe and analyse feedback from lecturers and peers and
• Show how this has been responded to through making processes

 

Your assessment tasks for the intensive seminar  will include:

 Draft Studio Work Proposal & Annotated bibliography. You should demonstrate a capacity to:

-Initiate a written Studio Project Work Proposal that articulates a contextual focus and intent to your Studio Project
-Include your ways of working and relevant outcomes
•-Compile a preliminary annotated bibliography of texts, artist’s, artworks and films or other documents that appropriately contextualise your Studio Project. An annotated bibliography is a list of sources with brief annotations that summarise, evaluate and state the relevance of the sources. An annotated bibliography/references list takes the same form as a regular bibliography/reference list, but includes extra information that demonstrates you have critically evaluated your sources.  

Detailed Assessment tasks and dates for assessment submissions for the intensive seminar and regular teaching weeks will be provided for students through Canvas and/or through student email. At the conclusion of assessments, an assessment feedback rubric will be provided for each student through the online system.

If you have a long term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the Studio Coordinator or the Disability Liaison Unit if you would like to find out more. < http://www1.rmit.edu.au/disability>

You can find a short guide to these avenues with links to relevant documents on the RMIT page: Assessment Forms http://www.rmit.edu.au/students/forms/assessment

Use the form: Application for extension of time for submission of assessable work <http://mams.rmit.edu.au/seca86tti4g4z.pdf> to apply for an extension of seven or fewer days from the original due date for submission of assignments, projects, or essays. This form can be lodged electronically (emailed to your Offering Coordinator) no later than one working day before the original submission due date.

An assessment charter summarises your responsibilities as an RMIT student as well as those of your teachers.

RMIT’s Assessment policy <http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=qwxbqbg739rl1> outlines your responsibilities as an RMIT student as well as those of your lecturers. Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies and procedures.

Penalties for late submission: (See details above for avenues for extension or special consideration.)

Late submission of assessment tasks will be penalised as follows:
For assessment tasks 1 to 5 days late, a penalty of 10% (of total available marks) per day
For assessment tasks more than 5 days late, a student will only be eligible for a Pass (PA) or Fail (NN)

Weekend days (Saturday and Sunday) are considered when counting late submissions.

Course grades available:
HD High distinction (80 – 100)
DI Distinction (70 – 79)
CR Credit (60 – 69)
PA Pass (50 – 59)
NN Fail (0 – 49)