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COURSE FORMAT: 4 instructional hours/week and 1.5 lab hours/week for 15 weeks
Start Time: Thursday, 1:30pm
COURSE PREREQUISITE: SART 290
RECOMMENDED FOLLOW-UP COURSE: Media Art Institute: SART 300
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
General: This course is intended to advance technical and conceptual development of Media Art practices and begin the development of independent art making, proposal writing and thematic art production.
Students examine the theoretical, cultural and critical discourses that surround new media technologies, while moving forward with their own material production. They continue to become aware of national and international art practices while discussing and creating art from a critical perspective.
Instructional: Students create a project based on appropriation, while discussing issues of authorship, originality and the reinterpretation of history. They go on to develop a self portrait in any of the disciplines covered in Media Art, and finally propose and create an independent project at the end of the term.
Students explore course content through research presentations, readings, individual projects, visual presentations of related art work, technical demonstrations, lectures, class critiques and discussions.
REQUIRED TEXT: Media Art IV course pack assembled by instructor, available in Bookstore.
Recommended book: Guide for Artists
EQUIPMENT/SUPPLIES: The College will be able to supply some basic material requirements for the course. However, students should anticipate supplying most of their material needs. Some supplies will be available for purchase from the instructor.
Students should expect to incur some costs for basic supplies including videotapes, minidisks, CDs and DVDs. Students will determine many of their own materials.
It is an asset if students can provide their own video cameras, minidisk recorders, digital cameras and laptops, but it is not compulsory.
EVALUATION PROFILE:
| Assignment #1: Appropriation Project | 22.5% |
| Assignment #2: Self-Portrait | 22.5% |
| Proposal for Independent Project (oral and written) | 10% |
| Assignment #3: Independent Project | 20% |
| Group Presentation | 15% |
| Participation | 10% |
| TOTAL | 100% |
ASSIGNMENTS: Students are required to devote a minimum of 4 hours per week outside of class time to the completion of assignments.
Studio Art assignments will be assessed according to the following considerations. The following 5 categories will be weighted equally.
Concept: Concept is defined as: content development, depth of exploration of subject matter, and progression of ideas.
Understanding: Understanding is defined as suitability of work produced as a response to the assignment, and a general understanding of one’s own work as communicated in critiques. Verbal articulation of ideas and concepts that underpin the work is the key.
Effective Communication: Effective communication is defined by students’ ability to convey their intended meaning(s).
Execution: Execution is defined by technical proficiency, time spent on projects, design, level of skill shown throughout preparation and production, detail, integrity of form, and final presentation.
Imagination/Inventiveness: Imagination and inventiveness is defined by creativity, “originality”, level of involvement, and going beyond basic requirements and expectations.
GROUP PRESENTATION: Each group will research and present information on one of the following subjects:
- Appropriation in Art
- Portraiture in Contemporary Art
- Contemporary Art in Vancouver
Research materials are available from the course package, Capilano College Library, Inter-library exchange with other institutions (including Emily Carr) and the instructor upon request. Students are expected to familiarize themselves with the visual arts section of the library and the periodicals section. Research must not be based solely on Internet information.
