ACI301 - Studio Research

Year:

2025 unit information

Enrolment modes: Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne)
Credit point(s): 1
EFTSL value: 0.125
Prerequisite:

Students must have completed one credit point at level 1 or 2 of an ACI or ACF coded unit, plus one credit point at level 2 in any unit

Corequisite: Nil
Incompatible with: Nil
Study commitment

Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Scheduled learning activities - campus

1 x 1-hour online lecture per week

1 x 2-hour on-campus seminar per week

Content

This unit encourages students to reflect upon the process of experimentation within creative practice and its implications with respect to aesthetics, style and content. Avant-garde and experimental photography and the convergence of photography (both analogue and digital) with other mediums such as painting, sculpture, installation and sound will be investigated in both a historical and contemporary international and Australian context.

Students will undertake an in depth experimental investigation during the production of a substantial creative work.

Topics in this unit include:-
The history of contemporary and experimental photography;
The convergence of photography with other mediums;
A review of Australian and experimental photography practice.

Unit Fee Information

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