AART3320
10 units
3000 level
Course handbook
Description
This course explores mixed media, multi-media installation and environmental artworks, and offers opportunities for creative expression within an urban environment. Through set and self-directed projects, creative workshops will emphasise individual development and approaches to 3-D studies. Multimedia installation and public art works are embraced, along with sculptural and critical drawing strategies.
Availability
Not currently offered.
This Course was last offered in Semester 1 - 2023.
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Examine historical and contemporary attitudes to installation and environmental art;
2. Recognise the significance of space, natural and constructed environments;
3. Critically assess traditionally used 3-D materials and the inclusion of unconventional materials;
4. Investigate approaches in theoretical and critical analysis of installation and time based art;
5. Effectively develop visual research material as an ongoing resource.
Content
Topics may include:
- Time, space and place;
- The natural and built environment;
- Social and cultural narratives;
- Monuments and memorialising
- Exterior and internal space and scale;
- Mixed media and emerging technologies;
- Documentation of artworks;
- The gallery environment;
- Health and safety in civic spaces.
Assumed knowledge
Successful completion of AART1300 and AART1310
Assessment items
Journal: Studio Journal
Project: Progress Reporting
Project: Final Studio Output
Course outline
Course outline not yet available.
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