Not currently offered
Course code

AART3320

Units

10 units

Level

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.