NM2502 - Visual Arts and Concepts

Credit points:	03
Year:	2011
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	School of Creative Arts

This subject introduces students to the artist's use of current technologies in digital visual arts practice and illustration incorporating: digital-capture-scanning, image manipulation, basic video capture and editing, and multimedia presentations. The subject provides opportunities to study and practice creative digital visual arts production and presentation. Emphasis is on the creative and conceptual input contemporary visual artists and illustrators use in their work and how artists can adopt various styles and genres for visual work. Students are encouraged to incorporate drawing elements via text, image, sound and moving image. Hardware, software and media, files types, file management, copyright/legal issues, health and safety and technical vocabulary are addressed.

Learning Outcomes

• Develop an appreciation and knowledge of contemporary visual art practice based on drawing, visual investigation and new media practice and theory;
• Create visual artwork as a result of the investigation into visual work in new media and multi-media art forms;
• Develop an understanding of visual arts in the area of new media and an ability to test ideas through art production;
• Understand concepts of visual arts production both individually and in teams and establish suitable visual presentation techniques.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
• The ability to find and access information using appropriate media and technologies;
• The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area;
• The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner.

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 24-Mar-2011
Coord/Lect:	Ms Anne Lord.
Contact hours:	13 hours lectures 26 hours workshops/Seminars
Assessment:	10 images and documentation (20%); gallery display of creative work and installation (20%); storyboard mock up concept planning (20%); major visual investigation (30%); research journal (10%).
Cairns, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 25-Aug-2011
Coord/Lect:	Dr Robyn Glade-Wright.
Contact hours:	13 hours lectures 26 hours workshops/Seminars
Assessment:	10 images and documentation (20%); gallery display of creative work and installation (20%); storyboard mock up concept planning (20%); major visual investigation (30%); research journal (10%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.