James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2003

college of Music, Visual Arts and TheatrE

Personal code as transition;
Interplay: an investigation of the efficiency of focussed youth playwriting initiatives 1983–1997;
Body Art: who, why and where?
Artists’ Books: a series;
Exploration of design concept, development and implementation: Peter Pan;
Realities and created ideals: visual media;
Encapsulating an environment: magnetising the Isle;
The art of video on art;
White on black: a primitive view of “Primitive” art;
The Johnsone Gallery: pivotal influence;
Lexicon of Australian artists: signatures, initials and monograms;
Archetypal time travellers: the immutable female;
European traditions: northern Australian climates;
Artists and iron horses;
Evaluation of the effectiveness of flexible course work delivered through CD Rom;
The academic experience: the role of peer mentoring;
The history and psychology of portraiture;
One single journey;
Faces of influence: a study of the determinants of style in posed portrait photography;
Dimensions of an aesthetic;
The Processes of image creation;
Exploring the potential of computer generated art;
The nature of Ephemon: research into ephemeral work and communication through visual and verbal documentation;
The divided self: evolution of a personal code of ciphers, symbols and techniques;
Kala: journeys in colour and time — an exploration of the relationship between colour and time, its cosmogonic and cosmological significance in tantric metaphysical thought and associated western poetic notions;
Profiling service: portraits and people of Townsville;
The Stanislavski System: cultural artefact or generic principle?
The human figure in space and time;
Johann Sebastian Bach: the Suites for Cello Solo — an exploration of the time warp;
Listening and ESL: processes, strategies, monitoring and metacognition;
Exploring images of women: comparative visual and linguistic representations;
Creating conversations into theatre;
Conversations: ritual and anarchy in contemporary art practice;
Shaping the creative process through listening;
Language and performance;
Physiological bases of vocal health and quality;
Costuming for Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet: an exploration of the contemporary aesthetic and ideals of beauty;
The role of language in shaping performance;
Writing, workshop, rehearsal and performance: collaborative approaches to creating theatre;
Silence and pause in the performance text: the dialogue of silence in writing for the theatre;
Dimensions of an aesthetic;
Female sculptors: roles and responsibilities in the artistic dimension;
Focal people: the role of the gallery as an artistic nerve centre;
A case study of theatrical process into product: the pedagogy of entertainment;
A pedagogical analysis of selected Australian composers for elementary string orchestras;
A pedagogical analysis of the six string quartets by Herman Schroder;
An investigation of first year student course attrition or deviation;
Alternative strategies for the tertiary teaching of piano: models towards the twenty-first century;
The development of performance text from biography;
The visual arts and religion in Contemporary society;
Significant remembered sites: visual documentation and research;
Shadows of the Archetype;
Perception and contemporary portraiture;
Cultural infrastructure: the role of the artistic event;
Perspectives in cultural tourism;
Early French Violin Sonatas c1690–1730;
The private music teacher and the public evaluation system;
The relevance of the classical figure in 21st Century Art Practice;
Comparative analysis of the technological and artistic views facing film makers during the periods 1885–1915 and 1885–2005;
Traditional Tools to Digital Tools;
Australian textile design influence and the development of personal style in textile design;
Shaped by nature;
A reassessment of the veracity of photographs;
The creative continuum;
Imaging animals;
Exploring pdf boundaries;
The painted garden;
History and resonanace;
Weevil rugs of New Guinea;
Living with the enemy: a study of the suburban feral ecology in Townsville;
Assimilation vs homogenisation;
The spiritual function of circles;
Dajarra, the pub and people; community and marginality in Queensland’s North West;
Analysis of ‘baggage’;
New media arts;
Hybrid arts;
New music composition;
New music performance;
Electronic music;
Improvisation;
Practice-based research methodologies;
Self, peer and staff assessment processes for the musical performer: impacts, challenges and possibilities;
A search for nature: exploring concern for nature in contemporary art;
Indirect gaze: an exploration of the gaze as a device of social control;
Pulling strings: loom controlled shibori;
The spiritual function of circles in art and religion.