| CODE | DGA3022 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Degree Exhibition | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 10 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Digital Arts | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The Exhibition places the student’s practical output within a public dimension. Students will put up a collective exhibition in a museum, gallery or any other public space including the Internet and will need to address issues of physical and virtual space, aesthetic display, information and communication as well as marketing and advertising. The students will assume curatorial responsibility and therefore need to negotiate cohesion while also respecting their individual creativity. Students are required to write, design and print/produce an exhibition leaflet or website, promote the exhibition and source sponsorship. Study-Unit Aims: - To direct students towards presenting their work to and engaging with the general public; - To direct students towards a culture of high professional standards in presentation; - To provide the students the experience of marketing and promoting their product and communicate their research. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - become familiar with a diverse range of curatorial practices and approaches; - create and implement marketing and promotional strategies; - communicate research outcomes through artistic artefacts/bodies of work. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - work in a team and negotiate space; - reach high levels of presentation; - create communication and marketing strategies for both product and research; - handle the logistical and technical requirements involved in setting up a high level exhibition. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Lord, B. (2001). The Manual of Museum Exhibitions. AltaMira Press. - Marincola, P. (2007). What Makes a Great Exhibition? Reaktion Books. - Green, A. (2018). When Artists Curate: Contemporary Art and the Exhibition as Medium. Reaktion Books. - Lord, B. (2001). The Manual of Museum Exhibitions. AltaMira Press. - Marincola, P. (2007). What Makes a Great Exhibition? Reaktion Books. Supplementary Readings: - Barrett, E., Bolt, E. (2010), Practice as Research. Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry, London: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd. - Macleod, Katy and Holdridge, Lin (2008), Thinking Through Art. Reflections on Art as Research, London: Routledge. - Sullivan, Graeme (2005), Art Practice as Research, California: SAGE Publications Inc. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Independent Study & Tutorial | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Trevor Borg Matthew Galea |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2023/4. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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