AN2108 - Art, Images and Symbols: Visual Digital and Material Culture
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 1 |
| Administered by: | College of Arts, Society & Education |
SP2 in even years
Rather than just studying the art of other cultures, this subject explores the 'art of ethnography' through the related fields of visual, material, and digital anthropology. Presented in a workshop format, students will explore ways of knowing and responding to the world beyond the written text. The primary aim is to provide students with a combination of conceptual and experiential skills with which to appreciate the role that visual and material culture play in everyday life and how, in turn, images, objects and digital media can be used help us to grapple with questions of what it means to be human. Students will consider such practices as photography, film, digital media, art objects and other creative expressions, both as modes of representation and as sites of cultural and political practice. The practice of ethnographic filmmaking will be explored through a programme of film screenings and discussions. Students will engage with current, readily accessible technologies with which they are already familiar - their own digital cameras, mobile phones and laptops - and apply an anthropologist's eye to the use and integration of these technologies into ethnographic, visually-oriented research. (Note: Specific case studies and topics covered in the subject may vary year to year in accordance with the research foci of the staff delivering the subject).
Learning Outcomes
- locate the relationship of various expressions of human creative endeavour in terms of space and place, time and memory, identity and belonging;
- produce visual work that demonstrates ethnographically informed attention to social life;
- critically discuss the ethics and aesthetics of ethnographic filmmaking and other creative works by anthropologists;
- speak and write analytically about concepts, methods, theories as these apply in the anthropology of design, visual anthropology and material culture studies;
- recognise and understand the social contexts and political dimension of art practice, design processes and visual representations.
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | AN2102 and AN3102 and AN3108 and AR2408 and AR2412 and AR3408 and AR3412 |
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| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 25-Aug-2016 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Rosita Henry |
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| Assessment: | audio-visual research project (40%); essays (40%); participation (20%). |
| Cairns, Internal, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 25-Aug-2016 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Rosita Henry |
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| Assessment: | audio-visual research project (40%); essays (40%); participation (20%). |
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.