80066 Expanded Image Studio: Post Photography
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Credit points: 12 cp
Subject level:
Undergraduate
Result type: Grade and marksRequisite(s): 80047 Critical Image Studio: Image Ethics and Portraiture AND 80065 Critical Image Studio: Image Activism and Documentary Practice
Description
This subject introduces ideas and practices relating to the theoretical notion of post-photography. We are said to be living in a post photographic era where expanded forms of image making are central to photographic enquiry and practice. Students are introduced to conceptual and practical developments in the field of image making by studying practices deemed 'post photographic'. Through a series of practical and research-driven projects, students extend their technical skills and conceptual processes. The subject's collaborative learning tasks encourage further experimentation with digital methods of production as well as the application of new ideas gleaned from a sustained examination of digital post-photographic culture. This subject consolidates skills in digital manipulation, post-production, and photographic outcomes in print, web and other forms of electronic and analogue media. It encourages a consideration and application of photographic and digital media skills relevant to professional practice and broader image based contexts.
Subject learning objectives (SLOs)
On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:
| 1. | Constructively engage with the global context of digital photographic practice through directed and independent research |
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| 2. | Work co-operatively and professionally in response to digital media problems and inquiries. |
| 3. | Develop and innovatively apply digital and analogue skills appropriate to professional photography and situated media practice. |
| 4. | Develop written and visual communication of ideas relevant to the global digital context. |
| 5. | Initiate then execute iterative creative processes, developing work in response to peer and mentor feedback as well as taking autonomous responsibility for decisions in experimental practice |
Course intended learning outcomes (CILOs)
This subject also contributes to the following Course Intended Learning Outcomes:
- Ability to take autonomous responsibility for actions and decisions (A.1)
- Ability to constructively engage with subject learning activities (A.3)
- Ability to communicate ideas effectively in a variety of ways, including oral, written and visual (C.2)
- Ability to engage in and contribute to studio discussion (C.3)
- Ability to initiate and execute meaningful self-directed iterative processes (I.3)
- Ability to produce inspirational responses that exemplify integration of learning experiences (I.4)
- Ability to innovatively use photographic and media technologies (I.5)
- Ability to apply relevant digital and/or analogue techniques and technologies to image-based practice (P.2)
- Ability to develop technical skills in photography and situated media (P.3)
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge of current image-based practice (P.4)
- Ability to source, evaluate and utilise appropriate academic and professional references (R.1)
- Ability to reflect and engage in self-critique and critical thinking (R.5)
Contribution to the development of graduate attributes
The term CAPRI is used for the five Design, Architecture and Building faculty graduate attribute categories where:
C = communication and groupwork
A = attitudes and values
P = practical and professional
R = research and critique
I = innovation and creativity.
Course intended learning outcomes (CILOs) are linked to these categories using codes (e.g. C-1, A-3, P-4, etc.).
Teaching and learning strategies
This subject includes active and collaborative learning experiences where ongoing feedback is provided weekly in all on campus engagements. It is therefore imperative that students prepare for and attend at least 80% of all campus engagements outlined in the program.
This subject uses a problem based learning strategy that involves students in researching and developing their own solutions to complex design challenges. The subject combines one 1 hour interactive lecture session, one 2 hour studio tutorial, and one 3 hour lab workshop per week.
Each week students will be asked to familiarise themselves with a range of different online written and visual resources that relate to the topic. These are included in the program descriptions. They will then attend interactive lectures where they must be prepared to ask questions, raise ideas and apply their understanding of the topic in a collaborative learning environment. Preparation in advance of these interactive learning sessions is crucial.
Studio tutorials (after the lecture) will give students the opportunity to discuss questions about the weekly topic with peers and tutor/ mentors, collaborate on projects directly relevant to key ideas and the assessment items that engage them, and develop skills as a researcher and practitioner. Studio tutorials will provide students with the opportunity to take ownership of the ideas encountered in preparatory reading and research. Tutor mentors will help facilitate discussion and offer expert insight and direction where needed, but students are primarily responsible for the collaborative and participatory nature of the tutorial.
Lab workshops are provided to support students in the development of their specialist photography and situated media skills. Prior to each lab workshop students will be required to familiarise themselves with online content suggested in the program notes and prepare questions for the mentor in relation to the design projects they are working on.
Outside class time students are expected to extend the enquiries made in the collaborative learning session with the independent development of their assessment projects. Students are supported in these projects by access to level 2 photo media facilities.
Grades, marks and feedback on submitted tasks will be provided through Review.
Content (topics)
The content of this subject includes:
- Theories of contemporary image practice within a post-photographic context. Specifically, discourse focused on the production and dispersion of digital images and culture.
- Examining practices implicitly and explicity engaged with the post-photographic condition.
- Practical skills in analogue, digital and studio-based photography and post-production. Application of practical tasks which introduce and refine student’s understanding of experimental techniques of image manipulation.
- Assessment tasks that embrace the iterative process through constructive critique/ feedback and a collaborative learning environment.
Assessment
Assessment task 1: Digital Image Project
| Intent: | For this assessment task students produce a photographic work that reflects one 'post-photographic' concept:
Student's are encouraged to use apps, software and online interfaces to both produce and display screen based work appropriate to the concept chosen. |
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| Objective(s): | This task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 This task also addresses the following course intended learning outcomes that are linked with a code to indicate one of the five CAPRI graduate attribute categories (e.g. C.1, A.3, P.4, etc.): A.3, C.3, I.4, P.4 and R.1 |
| Type: | Project |
| Groupwork: | Individual |
| Weight: | 25% |
Assessment task 2: Digital Skills Portfolio
| Intent: | This task offers the opportunity to consolidate and document technical skills developed in the workshop classes. Each week in workshops you will develop one area of advanced digital image production and be asked to apply it to a task. These tasks are reviewed throughout the teaching session and there are ongoing submission dates by which you can receive feedback and review your progress. At the end of session all tasks are collated and assessed in the form of a digital skills portfolio. |
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| Objective(s): | This task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 2, 3 and 5 This task also addresses the following course intended learning outcomes that are linked with a code to indicate one of the five CAPRI graduate attribute categories (e.g. C.1, A.3, P.4, etc.): A.3, I.3, I.5, P.2 and P.3 |
| Type: | Project |
| Groupwork: | Group, individually assessed |
| Weight: | 30% |
Assessment task 3: Final project
| Intent: | Where Task 1 was focused on using appropriation and screen-based outcomes, Task 3 asks you to think through how images might be mediated by digital technologies, but fully realised in the form of objects and materials. Here we want you to explore what images gain in installation and print. You might start with one of the post-photographic concept covered in the first half of the session. But the emphasis in this task is on physical and material outcomes and spatial displays. |
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| Objective(s): | This task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 1, 3, 4 and 5 This task also addresses the following course intended learning outcomes that are linked with a code to indicate one of the five CAPRI graduate attribute categories (e.g. C.1, A.3, P.4, etc.): A.1, A.3, C.2, I.5, P.3 and R.5 |
| Type: | Project |
| Groupwork: | Individual |
| Weight: | 45% |
Minimum requirements
The DAB attendance policy requires students to attend no less than 80% of formal teaching sessions (lectures and tutorials) for each class they are enrolled in to remain eligible for assessment.
The listed assessment tasks should be submitted on the due date/time. The combined project grades should equal a pass grade or above. It is expected that you will spend 10 hours per week on this subject (this includes attendance at scheduled lectures and tutorials).
Assessment criteria relate to the learning objectives listed in this document. See briefs for specific details of assessment criteria for each project. To pass a project, work submitted should show satisfactory achievement in all learning objectives.
Recommended texts
Cornell, Lauren and Halter, Ed 2015. Mass Effect: Art and the Internet. New York: New Museum.
Cotton, Charlotte, 2015. Photography is Magic. New York: Aperture.
Hand, Martin 2012, Ubiquitous Photography, Polity, Cambridge UK.
Kholeif, Omar 2016. Electronic Superhighway: From Experiments in Art and Tecnology to Art After the Internet. London: Whitechapel Gallery.
Lister, Martin 2009 ‘Photography in the age of electronic imaging’ in Wells, Liz (ed) Photography: A Critical Introduction, 4th edition, Routledge, London, pp313-344.
Manovich, Lev 2003 ‘The Paradoxes of Digital Photography’ in Wells, Liz (ed) The Photography Reader, Routledge, London, pp 240-249
Moschovi, Alexandra, McKay, Carol and Plouviez, Arabella (Eds) 2013. The Versatile Image: Photography, Digital Technologies and the Internet. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press.
Shore, Robert 2014. Post-Photography: The Artist with a Camera. London: Laurence King Publishing.
Steyerl, Hito 2013. The Wretched of the Screen. Sternberg Press
Stewart, Garrett 2017. Transmedium: Conceptualism and the New Object Art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Zylinska, Joanna 2017. Nonhuman Photography. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
Other resources
Individual readings and resources will be distributed in class or via the UTS Library website.