Course Title: Advanced Studio Technologies 2

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Advanced Studio Technologies 2

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
VART3492	City Campus	Undergraduate	340H Art	Face-to-Face	Sem 2 2013, Sem 2 2014, Sem 2 2015, Sem 2 2016, Sem 2 2017
VART3539	Hong Kong Arts Centre	Undergraduate	340H Art	Face-to-Face	Offsh3 15, Offsh3 16

Flexible Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
VART3539	Hong Kong Arts Centre	Undergraduate	340H Art	Face-to-Face	OFFSe22018 (HA3C)
VART3539	Hong Kong Arts Centre	Undergraduate	340H Art	Face-to-Face	OFFSe22019 (All)
VART3539	Hong Kong Arts Centre	Undergraduate	340H Art	Face-to-Face	OFFSe22020 (HA3C)

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

None.

Course Description

In this course you will reflect on the range of skills, technologies and methods you have gained as part of your degree to make informed choices about the appropriate technologies for your practice. You will develop sophisticated methods of interrogating technologies to clarify and resolve your conceptual ideas. You will build a body of work that focuses on your personal interests and positions your practice within national and international contexts.

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
• develop individual and collaborative modes of working and apply skills in teamwork, leadership and self-management
• the capacity for autonomous and continues learning, with the ability to apply new theories of practice and embrace new developments in cultural / artistic production
• the capacity to 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:

• Apply specialist technologies in the refinement of your work
• Critically reflect on the appropriate use of technology in your practice
• Produce a body of work that expresses a personal vision and philosophy
• Identify the appropriate technologies for a self-directed practice

Overview of Learning Activities

In this course you will engage with technology as a process of creation and enquiry. You will learn to use technologies in ways that compliment and inform your studio specialisation by making art works. You will also employ analytical, technical and interpretative processes to critically evaluate the use of technologies for creative practice using a range of reflective learning tools.

Through workshops, demonstrations, seminars, lectures and group discussions you will engage in a range of learning activities that explore technologies, tools and processes such as the hand made, digital, electronic, mechanical & workshop equipment & processes, and hardware & software. You will also explore safe working practices, industry standards and extend your knowledge, language and vocabulary of technology.

You will 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.

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. Professional 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.

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

 

Your assessment tasks for regular teaching weeks will include:

Folio and Presentation of Resolved Works 40%

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 40%

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 10%

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 10%

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 the online course guides 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.

An assessment charter summarises 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 which are described and referenced in a single document.