| CODE | DGA5011 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Initiating a Digital Art Project | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Digital Arts | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit will help locate, establish and develop the student's relevant area of postgraduate research within digital art and design practices. This is done through combining history, theory, and practice to explore the intersection of art, science and digital technologies as a starting point in locating student's research question. Through the use of traditional and advanced digital visualisation and interaction technologies, the study-unit provides the necessary framework which will enable the student to interface science, technology and the arts in order to explore imaginative and novel image-making strategies. Study-unit Aims - To clarify the student's creative process and theoretical standpoint; - Review theoretical frameworks used to account for an informed digital art practice; - Provide the required direction for the student's practice. Learning Outcomes 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - utilise research methodologies leading to and underpinning an advanced studio project in Design, Video and Time-Based Media and Photography; - develop and articulate a coherent studio project that demonstrates the relationships between theory and practice in the context of contemporary debates in contemporary art and design; - apply, consolidate and interrogate the significance of technical processes, aesthetic resources and conceptual skills related to a defined and theorised studio project. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - locate and reflect on a research question and project; - initiate and develop a process of critical reflection; - start a process that would lead to a finished project and critically reflect its validity conceptually, aesthetically and artistically Main Text/s and any supplementary readings - Gardiner, H., Gere, C. (2010). Art Practice in a Digital Culture. Ashgate - Gere, C. (2002). Digital Culture. Reaktion - Jana, R., Tribe, M. (2009). New Media Art. Taschen - Paul, C. (2008). Digital Art. Thames and Hudson - Popper, F. (2007). From Technological to Virtual Art. MIT Press Other journal articles related to the topic will be made available on the Study Unit e-Learning website |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Ind Study, Seminar & Group Learning | ||||||||||||
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