Course Title: Extend professional expertise across new art forms and media
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term2 2015
Course Code: VART6314C
Course Title: Extend professional expertise across new art forms and media
School: 340T Art
Campus: City Campus
Program: C6128 - Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts
Course Contact : Jennifer Cabraja and Fay Reynolds
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4472
Course Contact Email:visualarts@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Fiona Hillary
fiona.hillary@rmit.edu.au
Nominal Hours: 50
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
None
Course Description
In this course you will develop skills and knowledge required to extend creative expertise across new art forms and media. It involves exploring different art forms and media such as video, online media, installation or hybrid art and integrating new skills into creative practice.
Expertise with different art forms or media provides visual artists and other creative practitioners with the opportunity to evolve their professional practice and explore new ideas for and ways of creating work. This may involve a deepening exploration of work in a particular area of practice or a focus on new types of work. The course can be applied to any creative form with particular attention to new technologies such as digital of video work.
At this level, the independent practitioner already possesses well-developed skills in at least one art form and is evolving their work and ideas at a professional level. This process of experimentation, refinement and maturation lies at the heart of artistic practice and involves extensive practice as a fundamental part of the work process.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
CUVACD602A Extend professional expertise across new art forms and media |
Element: |
1. Explore the professional potential of different art forms and media |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1 Evaluate ways in which the use of different art forms or media might enhance current practice |
Element: |
2. Explore and extend new skills with materials, processes and techniques |
Performance Criteria: |
2.1 Explore and experiment with new materials, processes and techniques in selected art forms and media |
Element: |
3. Conceptualise new approaches to work |
Performance Criteria: |
3.1 Apply critical and creative thinking ability to the development of new ideas |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Archive, maintain and manage film and digital assets
- Collaborate with others about nature and opportunities of new work forms
In this course you will develop the following program capabilities:
- Technology skills to conduct web-based research
- Compare contemporary styles and conceptual or aesthetic approaches to art making
- Maintain professional practice arrangements for art making
Details of Learning Activities
In this course, you will learn through:
1. In-class activities:
•lectures
•teacher directed studio activities/projects
•studio exercises to review discussions/lectures
•peer teaching and class presentations
•group discussion
•studio work
2. Out-of-class activities include:
•practical exercises
•reading articles and excerpts
•preparing for discussion
•project work
•independent research
You are expected to manage your learning and undertake an appropriate amount of out-of-class independent study and research and industry guests speak about professional practice.
Teaching Schedule
| Week | Class content | Tasks | Elements |
| 1 |
Introduction to course: Using Augmented Learning: Introduction to site analysis. |
1 | |
| 2 | Workshop 1: Site Analysis | Site visit – Charles Street, Balaclava.
Please make sure you have a valid MYKI for travel. |
1/2 |
| 3 | Tools of being a tactical urbanist… We will explore notions of art in unconventional places – how can you create work to impact different sites? Introduction to Google + tools. Prepare class presentation about your major body of work & how you could expand using new technologies for week 4/5. Expanding major project |
Task requirements for community engagement: - Volume: a minimum of 2 posts is required. - the focus for the semester is your major body of work – attempt to keep community posts up to date in allocated class time to avoid overload. - if you are posting your works make sure you include details like image title, media, size. - expand and develop critical writing about your practice. Email any drafts to teacher for feedback prior to posting. The community should be as professional as possible to enable you to use it for future grant applications. - Posted images must be of works being assessed in studio classes – for the requirements of this program you will need to develop some new content that expands your practice. |
1/2 |
| 4 | Task: Prepare class presentation about your major body of work & how you could expand using new technologies for week 5/6/7.Class presentations: Expanding Major Project Intro to E portfolio |
Prepare class presentation about your major body of work & how you could expand using new technologies for week 4/5.
E-portfolio: |
1/2/3 |
| 5 | Class presentations: Expanding Major Project | Prepare class presentation about your major body of work & how you could expand using new technologies for week 5/6/7. | 1/2/3 |
| 6 | Class presentations: Expanding Major Project | 2 | |
| 7 | Class presentations: Expanding Major Project | Prepare class presentation about your major body of work & how you could expand using new technologies for week 5/6/7. | 2 |
| 8 | Class presentations: Expanding Major Project | feedback | 2 |
| 9 | One-on-one student consultations/community requirements | 1/2/3 | |
| 10 | One-on-one student consultations/community requirements | 1/2/3 | |
| 11 | One-on-one student consultations/community requirements | 1/2/3 | |
| 12 | One-on-one student consultations/community requirements | 1/2/3 | |
| 13 | One-on-one student consultations/community requirements | 1/2/3 | |
| 14 | One-on-one student consultations/community requirements | 1/2/3 | |
| 15 | QR Codes - application | 1/2/3 | |
| 16 | Assessment preparation | Submission of blog URL which outlines semester’s development | 1/2/3 |
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References
Other Resources
Library Subject Guides: Art
You will be encouraged to attend exhibition openings and visit public art projects/sites outside of your learning environment. RMIT school of Art has two galleries and an ongoing exhibition program.
Lynda.com accessible through the RMIT Library – for tutorials on using blogs.
Overview of Assessment
Assessment for this course is on going throughout the semester. Your knowledge and understanding of course content is assessed through completion of a body of work that demonstrates concept development, understanding of materials and adhering to the guidelines of working in a studio.
Assessment Tasks
Assessment Tasks
1. Assessment title: Site Analysis
Description: conduct a site analysis in Charles St, Balaclava. Present your findings as a small artistic presentation.
2. Assessment title: Expanding major project
Description: Presentation – expanding your major
Expanding major project
Brainstorm ideas about ways you could expand your major project, share some of these ideas in the community space. There are no limitations to the media used. Explore new technologies and ways of making art. Consider: video, i-pad, photography, text, performance, public space. Prepare class presentation about your major body of work & how you could expand using new technologies for week 4.
Semester: S2
Week: 4/5
3. Assessment title: Google community engagement
Semester: S2
Week: 6-15
Assessment requirements for Google community:
- Volume: the amount of posts can be negotiated with your lecturer, a minimum of 2 posts is required unless more complex media is being used, e.g. film making in the expansion of practice. This must be negotiated.
- the focus for the semester is your major body of work – attempt to keep community up to date in allocated class time to avoid overload.
- annotating your posts to assist with the expansion of your work is recommended but not essential if the imagery clearly demonstrates the development.
- expand and develop critical writing about your practice. Email any drafts to teacher for feedback prior to posting. The engagement in the community should be professional.
- Posted images must be of works being assessed in studio classes – for the requirements of this program you will need to develop some new content that expands your practice.
4. Assessment title: E Portfolio
Description: Submit URL for e portfolio
Semester: S2
Week: 16
Submission of blog as an URL. The portfolio must detail current work practices as outlined in assessment 2 and 3.
5. Visual Diary:
Description: Your visual diary should be a living document that provides insights to you influences, your ideas and how they impact your practice.
Assessment Matrix
The assessment matrix demonstrates alignment of assessment tasks with the relevant Unit of Competency.
These are available through the course contact in Program Manager.
Course Overview: Access Course Overview