• Total units 48 Units
  • Areas of interest Digital Arts, Visual Arts, Design Arts, Creative Arts, Arts
  • Major code HBRA-MAJ
  • Academic career Undergraduate

This major is only available to students undertaking the Bachelor of Visual Arts.

Contemporary visual art is characterised by hybrid practices that traverse multiple disciplines and combine mediums to create vibrant, new forms. The Hybrid Art Practice major offers students the opportunity to study across a range of creative art disciplines at the ANU School of Art & Design. Students will undertake visual arts courses in two-dimensional and three-dimensional studio practice, along with digital and/or design courses, to prepare them with versatile, transferable knowledge and skills in interdisciplinary practice.

School of Art & Design studio courses have a limited enrolment capacity. Students are advised to enrol as early as possible to maximise the opportunity of securing a place
 

 

 

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

  1. demonstrate an understanding of the practices, languages, forms, materials, technologies and techniques in multiple creative art disciplines;
  2. realise artefacts and forms of creative expression;
  3. develop and evaluate concepts and process by thinking creatively, critically and reflectively;
  4. work independently and collaboratively in a workshop environment in response to project demands; and
  5. apply workplace health and safety (WHS) regulations and principles within a workshop environment.

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Requirements

This major requires the completion of 48 units, which must include:

A maximum of 12 units of courses at 1000 level
A minimum of 12 units of courses at 3000 level

A minimum of 6 units must come from completion of two-dimensional visual arts courses from the following list:

ARTV1501 Painting: Introducing Painting    
ARTV1502 Painting: Composition and Space    
ARTV1601 Photomedia: Foundations of photography, printing and camera skills    
ARTV1602 Photomedia: Colour Photography and Digital Skills    
ARTV2506 Painting: Approaches to Abstraction    
ARTV2507 Painting: Painting in the Photo Digital Age    
ARTV2508 Painting: Taking Your Own Direction    
ARTV2509 Painting: Approaches to Composition and Colour    
ARTV2605 Photomedia: Advanced Principles in Exposure and Printing    
ARTV2606 Photomedia: Digital Photography and Studio Lighting    
ARTV2607 Photomedia: Large Format Photography    
ARTV2608 Photomedia: Experimental Processes    
ARTV2706 Printmedia and Drawing: Experimental Drawing    
ARTV2707 Printmedia and Drawing: Advanced Etching/Relief    
ARTV2708 Printmedia and Drawing: Project Drawing    
ARTV2715 Printmedia and Drawing: Typography    
ARTV2717 Printmedia and Drawing: Book Design    
ARTV2723 Printmedia and Drawing: Screen Printing    
ARTV2727 Printmedia and Drawing: Lithography    
ARTV2921 Environment Studio: field based research and studio practice in visual arts    

A minimum of 6 units must come from completion of three-dimensional visual arts courses from the following list:

ARTV1101 Ceramics: Materials & Technology    
ARTV1102 Ceramics: Throwing & Surface Decoration    
ARTV1201 Furniture: Shape/Structure    
ARTV1202 Furniture: Elevate/Surface    
ARTV1301 Glass Introduction    
ARTV1302 Glass: Processes and Methods    
ARTV1403 Jewellery & Object: Introduction to Precise Miniature Construction     
ARTV1404 Jewellery & Object: Maker, Wearer, Viewer, User     
ARTV1803 Sculpture: Introduction to Conceptual Practices and Construction Methods (Metal)    
ARTV1804 Sculpture: Introduction to Temporal Practices and Construction Methods (Wood)    
ARTV1901 Textiles: Dye and Surface Manipulation   
ARTV1902 Textiles: Print and Surface Design    
ARTV2117 Ceramics: Glaze & Colour Development    
ARTV2119 Ceramics: Experimental Methods and Meanings    
ARTV2120 Ceramics: Designing for the Table and Home    
ARTV2124 Ceramics: Surface, Form and Connectivity    
ARTV2125 Ceramics: Moulding, Casting & Digital Technologies    
ARTV2206 Furniture: Bend/Curve    
ARTV2207 Furniture: Support/Body    
ARTV2208 Furniture: Contain/Display    
ARTV2209 Furniture: Collect/Treasure    
ARTV2313 Glass: Kiln Casting    
ARTV2314 Glass: Blowing and Finishing Techniques in context    
ARTV2315 Glass: Kiln Forming    
ARTV2316 Glass: Advanced Hot and Cold Glass Working Process    
ARTV2401 Jewellery & Object: Making with machines    
ARTV2402 Jewellery & Object: Utility as Context    
ARTV2410 Jewellery & Object: Experimenting with process    
ARTV2421 Jewellery & Object: Hollow Construction    
ARTV2801 Socially Engaged Art Practice: Authorship, Dialogue and Community    
ARTV2802 Politics of Memory: Video Installation, Documentary and Monuments    
ARTV2810 Politics of Bodies: Sculpture, Figure Modelling, Performance and Choreography    
ARTV2820 Politics of Spaces: Installation, Sculpture and Spatial Practice    
ARTV2821 Posthuman Sculpture Practice with Active Materials: Bronze Casting, 3D Modelling, and Bio Art    
ARTV2907 Textiles: Embroidery and Hand Stitch    
ARTV2908 Textiles: Constructed Textiles    
ARTV2921 Environment Studio: field based research and studio practice in visual arts    
ARTV2060 Contexts of Making: Globalisation and Change    
ARTV2061 Contexts of Making: Materiality and Value    

A minimum of 6 units must come from completion of digital or design courses from the following list:

ARTV1103 Animation and Video: The Digital Workspace    
ARTV1104 Animation and Video: Digital Equipment and Studios    
ARTV2609 Animation and Video: Visual Storytelling    
ARTV2610 Animation and Video: Character development    
ARTV2613 Animation and Video: Landscape and Environment    
ARTV2614 Animation and Video: Non-linear Forms    
DESN1001 Making Online: Context & Presence    
DESN1002 Visual Communication: Design and Production    
DESN1003 Contemporary Design In Context    
DESN2001 Digital Form and Fabrication    
DESN2002 Foundations of Creative Code    
DESN2003 Creative Data Visualisation: Representing Data in Visual and Material Form    
DESN2004 Dynamic Design and Generative Systems    
DESN2005 Form and Fabrication in Context    
DESN2006 Front-End Web: Crafting Online Experience    
DESN2007 Design Fiction: Speculative and Critical Design    
DESN2008 Design Thinking: Human-Centred Design Methodologies    
DESN2009 Typography in Context: digital typographic design    
DESN2011 Your Practice / Your Brand    
DESN2012 The Ethics of Making: Design for Reuse and Repair  

6 units from completion of a course from the following list:

ARTV3028 Craft and Design Major 7: Developing A Visual Arts Practice    
ARTV3033  Creative Research Practice: Developing an Independent Work Proposal     

6 units from completion of a course from the following list:

ARTV3029 Craft and Design Major 8: Resolving a Body of Original Work    
ARTV3034 Creative Research Practice: Extending and Consolidating an Independent Work Proposal    

School of Art & Design studio courses have a limited enrolment capacity. Students are advised to enrol as early as possible to maximise the opportunity of securing a place.
Unless otherwise stated, a course used to satisfy the requirements of one list may not be double counted towards satisfying the requirements of another list.
 

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