ANU - STUDYAT - Concepts in Practice

Offered By:

School of Art

Academic Career:

Undergraduate

Course Subject:

New Media Arts

Offered in:

NEWM2005 will not be offered in 2010

Unit Value:

6 units

Course Description:

The Concepts in Practice course approaches ideas and thinking through drawing.

In considering new media, the drawing sessions explore mark making, aesthetics, text and image, responses and observation of visual and audio objects, the human model and spatial / physical environments. The course introduces students to the concept of performance through developing drawing to live action production, narrative into visual text and storyboarding. It will also focus on modelling actions, narrative, space verses scale, adaptation and interpretation of character.

Indicative Assessment:

Assessment is by a series of assignments and a major project. Assignments (50%), Major Project (50%)

Workload:

3 hours of seminar / studio practice per week.

Students are expected to do at least an extra 4 hours of independent studio practice each week.

Areas of Interest:

Digital Arts

Preliminary Reading:

• Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media, Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, 2001
• Goldberg, RoseLee. Performance Art – From Futurism to the Present, Thames & Hudson
• Shrigley, Gordon, Spatula, How Drawing Changed the World, Marmalade, London 2004
More extensive reading list available – refer to lecturer

Academic Contact:

To Be Advised

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