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GVA3207

Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture

18 September 2017 22 December 2024
Monash University

Undergraduate - Unit

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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LevelUndergraduate
FacultyFaculty of Art, Design and Architecture
OfferedNot offered in 2015
Coordinator(s)Ms Susan Purdy

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.

Outcomes

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%

Workload requirements

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

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Chief examiner(s)

Ms Susan Purdy

Prerequisites

PHO2207 or PHO2208 or GVA2207 or GVA2208

Prohibitions

PHO3207