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School of Art and Design · ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
In this course students will develop and extend their art practice beyond a specific medium and grapple creatively with urgent ideas and themes shaping contemporary art. In dialogue with peers and staff, students will use their existing knowledge of technical processes and apply them to new enquiries, themes or research questions. Students will develop skills that support an increasingly independent studio practice, and produce new artworks that creatively respond to a rotating set of class topics. Students may complete this course up to four times provided they enrol in a different topic. Course content, assessment structure, and reading list will change depending on the topic and the expertise of the convenor. Please refer to the class summary for the specific term in which you wish to enrol for a detailed description. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: - Art after Social Media: This topic explores how the internet and social media have reshaped art and cultural production. Through seminars and workshops, students investigate how artists respond to - or resist - the aesthetics, politics, and sociality of digital life. Students are invited to develop a series of new artworks - in any medium - grounded in critical research and experimentation, while considering how platforms enable art to circulate beyond the gallery. - The Book as Art - Politics of Memory: Video Installation, Sculpture, Documentary This course examines the politics of storytelling in contemporary art practice and the effects of historiographic methods, including video installation, documentary and public sculpture. The conceptual design and the realization of student projects will be informed by analysis of various contemporary art projects and their approach to formats like the visual essay, the voice-over, re-enactment, the edited interview, the archival display, and the monument. Although the media students work with is dependent on the conceptual development of their projects. - Open to Influence: Studio Research - Object Ontologies: This course explores the potential of three-dimensional art objects to make us feel, think, know and experience the world differently through how they are made, what they are made from and how they are used or displayed. Students will further existing skills by developing practice-led methodologies that interrogate the making of meaning and the meaning of making.
Portfolio of studio work (Project 1)
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4
Portfolio of studio work (Project 2)
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4
Research and Critical Reflection equivalent to 1000 words (May include visual diary and/or written reflection)
Learning outcomes 3, 4
130 hours of total student learning time made up from: a) 48 hours of contact over 12 weeks: lectures, tutorials, critiques and supervised studio practice; and b) 82 hours of independent studio practice, reading and writing. Other Information School of Art & Design studio courses have a limited enrolment capacity. Students are advised to enrol as early as possible to maximise the opportunity of securing a place. Depending on the class topic defined each semester, the course may have a Materials Fee. At the ANU School of Art & Design, each workshop sources appropriate specialist materials, which are made available to students to facilitate their working effectively, efficiently and safely within our programs. The School of Art & Design is able to supply materials that don’t compromise ANU obligations under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (WHS), and that have been assessed as suitable for each course. The Materials Fee is payable for the School of Art & Design to supply consumables and materials that become your physical property. You can choose to pay the Materials Fee and have these materials supplied to you through the School of Art & Design, allowing you to take advantage of the GST-free bulk purchasing power of the ANU. These materials are also WHS compliant. The exact cost of the Materials Fee will be updated in the Class Summary for each semester in which the course is offered. The full SOAD policy can be read here: https://soad.cass.anu.edu.au/required-resources-and-incidental-fees
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