BMABT205 – Image, Text and Structure
Module code
BMABT205
Module title
Image, Text and Structure
Prescription
The purpose of this module is to provide contemporary art students with technical and media experience of digital video as experienced in fine art practice. The student will explore installation and time-based formats.
Programmes
- BM9601
NZQA Level
Level 6
NZQA Credits
15
Delivery method
- Not Web enabled
Learning hours
- Total learning hours
- 150
Resources required
- Content
- This module provides contemporary art students with experience in video/ installation practice in contemporary Art. Students explore relevant media and technique, developing practical projects founded in the recent work of selected visual artists.
- Learning Outcomes
- 2.1Understand a process which advances the structured and reflective refinement of an artistic project "identify the problems and issues set in the course brief "complete self-directed research and reflect upon working processes "demonstrate the structured resolution of a process through the generation, regeneration, manipulation and refinement of ideas "discuss with peers and tutors the individual working process adopted "show evidence of independent and interdependent processes for working 2.3Develop an understanding of installation practice which manipulates the relationship between digital media, texts and sites "analyse the interrelated formal, material, temporal, spatial, contextual issues in Installation practice "apply the interrelated formal, material, temporal, spatial, contextual issues in Installation practice to own work "reflect critically on examples of video Installation 2.4Acquire knowledge of video production and editing acquisition and delivery procedures in relation to installation formats "use video camera to record, test and edit visual information "develop procedure and skill in the use of selected pre- and post-production software and technology "develop procedure and skill in the use of interactive technologies "negotiate the relationships between video image, sound, site and structures 2.5Understand the interrelationships between images, sounds, structures and bodies "Identify and test strategies for interactive engagements with video "Analyse issues related to oral and typographic modes of representation in video as related to Installation "test relationships between bodies, images and sounds and their means of interpretation 2.6 Understand relevant aspects of the critical discourse surrounding contemporary video / installation practice "produce analyses of selected works, relating relevant issues to own work "produce oral and written interpretations of and comparisons between selected works "develop and test rationales for self practice "conduct conventional presentations of outcomes 2.7Comprehend critical reflection and assessment "employ a vocabulary for describing work "write project objectives "actively participate in group and class critiques "consider and reflect upon self and peer design processes and decisions "participate in ongoing formative assessment "consider, discuss and document self and peer performances for graded assessment
