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FNA2112 - Contemporary Practices 4

12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Art, Design and Architecture

Organisational Unit

Department of Fine Art

Coordinator(s)

Dr Terri Bird

Offered

Caulfield

Second semester 2016 (Day)

Prato

Trimester 3 2016 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit is the fourth in the sequence for students to continue a range of leading contemporary art practices and methodologies. The unit promotes conceptual and material processes through interdisciplinary exchange, material and fabrication procedures. Associated projects are introduced based on theories of contemporary art practices, collaborative practices and individual modes of research focused outcomes. Students will develop inventive and sustainable solutions to a series of projects that will enable them to continue to develop a personal methodology and language.

Outcomes

Further extend both skills in art making and student vocabulary of materials and studio processes;
Possess considerable manipulative skills in students chosen area of self-expression;
Further develop levels of experimentation and investigation within students work, moving towards a focus on specific themes and technologies;
Be familiar with current issues in fine art and recognise the potential to produce works within the framework of contemporary culture;
Develop an increased capacity for the constructive appraisal of their own work, and that of others, and are able to articulate this through oral presentations and written documentation, and;
Increased understanding and practice the rules of occupational health and safety in force in the studio, and are able to collaborate and co-operate safely and productively within the studio environment.

Assessment

100% mixed mode

Workload requirements

24 hours per week, including 8 hours of taught studio and 16 hours of personal study and studio practice.

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Terri Bird

Prerequisites

Must have passed FNA2111

Prohibitions

Any FNA, VIS or VPR level 2 unit