University of Technology SydneyHandbook 2007

55059 Media Arts Forms and Aesthetics

8cp
Recommended studies: this subject assumes a student's knowledge in media arts, cultural studies, fine arts or related media studies
Honours subject – 400 level

Students develop and deepen their media literacy and skills of media analysis in order to enable a more active and critical engagement with the creative arts environment as well as an expansion of their understandings of their own work. The subject also opens a sense of possibilities for students to expand their own practice. Students engage with a wide range of specific media objects and experiences, including those delivered by sound, video, film and new media. They also study theories and critical writings that address key ideas and concepts of aesthetics, forms and modes, and meanings pertaining to electronic media. The subject explores a range of understandings of what creative practice is and how research informs creative practice. Students are encouraged to take an open and experimental approach in the sense of questioning their own assumptions and practices, and those of others, as to what constitutes 'good' creative practice and creative work. One of the key concerns of the subject is to enable active engagement with the creative practices outside the university context and understand the way in which works fit into and create a dynamic complex 'ecology', a system of interdependent propositions and reactions.


For detailed information, see the full subject description at:
http://www.hss.uts.edu.au/subject_descriptions/55059.pdf

Typical availability

Autumn semester, City campus

Access conditions

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