| CODE | DGA5016 | ||||||||||||||||
| TITLE | Art Practice and the Production of Culture | ||||||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Digital Arts | ||||||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The pedagogical strategy of the study-unit is based on the co-requisite that students both learn and apply new theoretical and analytical skills that are generally attributed to and associated with post/poly-disciplinary Cultural Studies. They are required to not just learn but also to become skilled in deploying these skills both to their own work as well as to the work of other artists. This direct conjunction of theory and practice - in itself a feature of Cultural Studies – is also, it may be argued, at the core of contemporary digital and artistic practice. By the completion of this study-unit , students will be able to utilise sophisticated analytical tools in both the production of their artistic work as well as to critically analyse, appraise, and articulate how both their own creative artistic work as well as the work of others function in the production of culture. Study-unit Aims This study-unit aims to provide students with a thorough introduction to post/poly-disciplinary Cultural Studies. Initially, the primary focus is on developing the necessary skills, methods and approaches needed to enable students to utilise the mulitdisciplinary analytical and theoretical toolbox of Cultural Studies. In testing their newly acquired knowledge, students will be asked to apply these new skills to bear in the creative practice of some important contemporary artists and cultural producers. Students are then asked to refine, deepen, and extend both their knowledge as well as the practical application of the analytical and theoretical skills through their own creative production. Thus students will move from being merely co-incidental accomplices in the production of culture (as if, as Plato thought, artists were only accidentally implicated passive creators of graven cultural artifacts) to consciously assume and fully embrace the strategic role that art and artists hold as proactive channels and mediums in the making of objects as well as critically reflexive makers and producers of culture. Specifically, the study-unit aims: 1) To develop students knowledge of post/poly-disciplinary Cultural Studies and related polydisciplinary methods and approaches 2) To develop students ability to apply Cultural Studies and related post/poly-disciplinary methods and approaches to the analysis of culture, and to the analysis of artistic and creative artifacts in particular in relation to their role in the production of culture. 3) To develop students abilities to apply Cultural Studies and related post/poly-disciplinary methods and approaches to the production and analysis of their own creative and artistic work. 4) To develop students ability to think critically and reflexively about how culture is produced and experienced. 5) To develop students ability to conceptualise, document, and articulate their thoughts and experiences on both the production and consumption of culture through a range of audio visual and public presentation forms. 6) To develop students abilities to represent and articulate thoughts, feelings, and experiences of the work of art and the production of culture through creative work. 7) To develop students ability to theorise experiences of the production and consumption of art and culture through writing. 8) To develop in students a range of intellectual, theoretical, conceptual, and practical skills in thinking about and representing ideas about the production of art and creative work in relation to the production of culture. Learning Outcomes 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: i) Critically theorise the experience of artistic and creative work, particularly in relation to its role in the production of culture, using a post/post-disciplinary Cultural Studies theoretical paradigm. ii) Generate original thoughts and ideas relating to the creation of artistic and other innovative works. iii) Generate original thoughts and ideas relating to the notion of culture and its production, as well as its relationship to art. iv) Articulate critical ideas about the experience of art and culture through class discussion, theoretical presentations and seminars, and through practice led creative and artistic projects. v) Gain a thorough overview of the critical and scholarly literature concerning relationships between art and culture, particularly in the field of post/poly-disciplinary Cultural Studies. vi) Transform both their own thoughts, ideas, and experiences as well as received ideas about artistic and creative production and its relationship to culture in to representations that communicate with others. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: i) Develop their ability to research, read, and document their experiences as producers of creative and artistic cultural products in professional and scholarly contexts. ii) Develop skills in public speaking and audio visual presentations. iii) Develop skills in presenting educational and didactic workshops dealing with the production of creative, artistic cultural works and post/poly-disciplinary Cultural Studies. iv) Produce creative projects, public presentations, and workshops using a range of media forms such as digital film and video, digital still photography, digital audio and other digital new media forms including web site design and construction, digital writing and performance. v) Integrate scholarly intellectual post/poly-disciplinary Cultural Studies and Social Sciences research into practice led projects. vi) Develop and demonstrate an ability to deploy coherent arguments and justifiable analyses of the experience of art, culture, and production. vii) Develop skills in analytical thinking, criticism, and creative synthesis of ideas and the representation dealing with art and culture. viii) Develop skills in identifying and formulating self defined problems as well as arriving at unique and appropriate solutions to those problems. ix) Work successfully with other students in group oriented projects. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings - Hans Abbing, Why Are Artists Poor?, Amsterdam UP 2006 - Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life and other Essays, Phaidon 2001 (Available in the Library) - Chris Barker, Cultural Studies : Theory and Practice, Sage 2008 (Available in the Library) - Walter Benjamin, Illuminations, Schocken Books 1969 - Rob Burns (ed), German Cultural Studies, Oxford UP 1995 - James Clifford, The Predicament of Culture, Harvard UP 1988 (Available in the Library) - Simon During, Cultural Studies : A Critical Introduction, Routledge 2005 - Simon During, The Cultural Studies Reader, Routledge 2007 (Available in the Library) - Dario Gamboni, The Distruction of Art, Yale UP 1997 (Available in the Library) - Paul du Guy, Stuart Hall, Linda Janes, Hugh Mackay, Keith Nequs (eds), Doing Cultural Studies : The Story of the Sony Walkman, Sage 1997 (Available in the Library) - Charles Harrison & Paul Wood, Art in Theory 1900 – 2000, Blackwell 2008 (Available in the Library) - Dick Hebdige, Subculture, The Meaning of Style, Routledge 1993 (Available in the Library) - Robert Hughes, The Shock of the New, Thames & Hudson 1991 - Fredric Jameson, The Cultural Turn, Verso 1998 - Toby Miller (ed), A Companion to Cultural Studies, Blackwell 2001 - Toby Miller & Alec McHoul, Popular Culture and Everyday Life, Sage 1998 - Larry Shiner, The Invention of Art, Uni of Chicago Press 2001 - John Storey, Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Culture, Edinburgh UP 2008 (Available in the Library) - Graham Turner, British Cultural Studies, Routledge 1998 - Raymond Williams, Culture and Society 1780 - 1950, Penguin, 1979 - Raymond Williams, Keywords, Fontana 1988 - Peter Wollen, Raiding the Icebox : Reflections in Twentieth Century Culture, Verso 2008 |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Ind Study, Seminar & Group Learning | ||||||||||||||||
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