Through a series of lectures, seminars, discussions and readings students will engage directly with the exciting debates which are raging today within photography and digital media concerning such crucial issues as privacy, obscenity, surveillance, truth, power, spectacle, authorship, institutional collecting and curating, copyright, ethics, virtuality, on-line identity and so on. They will gain skills in articulating their own relationship to these debates, and will be able to apply their knowledge to the development of their own creative work.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:- Demonstrate thorough knowledge of the key current debates photography and media arts
- Demonstrate thorough knowledge of the key emerging practices and discursive spaces in photography and media arts
- Demonstrate thorough knowledge of the key contemporary writers and theorists in photography and media arts
- Articulate their own opinions in relation to contemporary debates
- Apply learnt concepts of the medium to specific examples from the history of media, contemporary practices, and their own work as media artists
Indicative Assessment
Seminar presentation (40%) [LOs 1 - 3]Submitted written and visual work (40%) [Los 1-3]
Journal/Documentation (20%). [LOs 1-4]
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Workload
4 hours per week lectures, tutorials, critiques and supervised studio practice and 6 hours per week independent studio practice.Minors
Fees
Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.
If you are a domestic graduate coursework or international student you will be required to pay tuition fees. Tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.
- Student Contribution Band:
- 1
- Unit value:
- 6 units
If you are an undergraduate student and have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). You can find your student contribution amount for each course at Fees. Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.
| Units | EFTSL |
|---|---|
| 6.00 | 0.12500 |
Course fees
- Domestic fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2015 | $2604 |
- International fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2015 | $3576 |
Offerings, Dates and Class Summary Links
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