Online Elective Course

The course focuses on the increasing globalisation of contemporary art practice, in particular installation art, as an outcome of the outreach of international media, communications, migration, cultural commerce, international cultural events, cultural exchange and tourism.

It addresses the culturally diverse backgrounds of COFA’s, and UNSW’s, students as both a creative resource and entry point for concept based, intra subjective research in the studio.

The project work emphasises the creative application of students’ existing technical skills and aims to enhance the student’s ability to manipulate spatiality, imagery, objects and materials to create installed artworks. A high level of engagement with aesthetics is encouraged to amplify the students’ perceptual awareness of their artwork and everyday environment, along with reflection upon their subjective world. Through the analytical and critical interpretation of each other’s work and current exhibitions, an appreciation of contemporary installation art will be fostered. The development of the artworks’ conceptual content in concert with methods to represent these individual ideas and insights is integral to the course’s curriculum.

A group studio theory project will increase the students’ knowledge of the field, and a thread of professional practice throughout the course will teach exhibition skills as a vocational attribute.

NOTE: This course is conducted via the Omnium system (omnium.edu.au). Students will receive log in instructions via their UNSW email account prior to the commencement of the course.