School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Contemporary Studio 2: Installation Art
  • Unit Code

    VIS3152
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Paul Gerard UHLMANN

Description

From the mid-20th century, artists have increasingly employed a constellation of approaches to create works defined as installations. Installations may be assemblages, discrete interventions or immersive environments, and are often comprised of hybrid of forms exploring time and space through drawing, printmaking, artist’s books, video, painting, digital prints, sculpture, photography, glass, relational aesthetics and more. This unit examines the history of the art form, and students will be challenged to make their own installations by critically investigating historical precedents and contemporary concerns. Students will develop their final project informed by lectures, group discussions and workshops.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Describe the historical precedents of installation art.
  2. Generate source material, visual images and spatial models as forms of research that will critically inform their creative project.
  3. Plan a creative project communicated in a visual proposal presentation.
  4. Develop and document an in-progress creative work, to generate discussion and critical reflection.
  5. Produce a creative work that evidences research and a critically informed practice from planning stage to completion.

Unit Content

  1. Critical evaluation of the historical and contemporary context of installation art.
  2. Examining methods to re-evaluate and transform the space of an environment through practical application and through tests and models.
  3. Workshops in appropriate mediums, for example, documentation, lighting, digital prints, video, presentation, installation and assemblage.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars are further developed through structured workshops and demonstrations. In combination with advice and guidance from the lecturer, this critical engagement combined with exploration and experimentation through practical workshops informs the artwork that the student will develop.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Research PaperVisual presentation20%
Creative WorkCreative Project 140%
Creative WorkCreative Project 240%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Contemporary Studio 2: Installation Art
  • Unit Code

    VIS3152
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Paul Gerard UHLMANN

Description

From the mid-20th century, artists have increasingly employed a constellation of approaches to create works defined as installations. Installations may be assemblages, discrete interventions or immersive environments, and are often comprised of hybrid of forms exploring time and space through drawing, printmaking, artist’s books, video, painting, digital prints, sculpture, photography, glass, relational aesthetics and more. This unit examines the history of the art form, and students will be challenged to make their own installations by critically investigating historical precedents and contemporary concerns. Students will develop their final project informed by lectures, group discussions and workshops.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Describe the historical precedents of installation art.
  2. Generate source material, visual images and spatial models as forms of research that will critically inform their creative project.
  3. Plan a creative project communicated in a visual proposal presentation.
  4. Develop and document an in-progress creative work, to generate discussion and critical reflection.
  5. Produce a creative work that evidences research and a critically informed practice from planning stage to completion.

Unit Content

  1. Critical evaluation of the historical and contemporary context of installation art.
  2. Examining methods to re-evaluate and transform the space of an environment through practical application and through tests and models.
  3. Workshops in appropriate mediums, for example, documentation, lighting, digital prints, video, presentation, installation and assemblage.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars are further developed through structured workshops and demonstrations. In combination with advice and guidance from the lecturer, this critical engagement combined with exploration and experimentation through practical workshops informs the artwork that the student will develop.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Research PaperVisual presentation20%
Creative WorkCreative Project 140%
Creative WorkCreative Project 240%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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