Monash University Handbook 2010 Undergraduate - Unit

Synopsis

This unit focuses on the production of a major body of photomedia work, demonstrating a critical and topical engagement within a contemporary art and design context. The unit will enable students to bring their creative practice to a substantial level of competency with skills in both the technical and aesthetic aspects of photomedia, with emphasis on refining their personal visual language. As a major part of the unit is proposal-based, students will negotiate a theme of personal interest in the field of contemporary photomedia with an understanding of the implications of media choice and presentation.

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit students will:

1. have an advanced practical and critical understanding of Photomedia;
2. understand and be able to apply Photomedia processes, techniques and images to a major body of work;
3. be able to produce a major body of work which demonstrates advanced technique integrally linked with ambitious ideas;
4. have carried out a negotiated project on a theme of personal interest which results in a folio of images, or other forms of presentation as appropriate, with supporting documentation in a journal;
5. have considered how their work is placed in the context of current practice;
6. understand the implications of media choice and presentation;
7. be able to articulate their practice with clarity and insight;
8. observe and employ occupational health and safety principles and rules appropriate to studio practice.

Assessment

Folio: 90% (which includes progressive assessment); Journal: 10%

Chief examiner(s)

Susan Purdy (First semester)
Rodney Forbes (Second semester)

Contact hours

12 hours per week including, 4 taught hours and 8 independent study hours.

Prerequisites

PHO2207 or PHO2208