The Bachelor of Digital Media Honours program at the School of Art offers graduates of a three year Bachelor degree program the opportunity to pursue a high-level digital media research project under the supervision of senior staff. Through the planning, preparation and execution of a two-semester project, Honours students experience advanced practice-led research methodologies and explore the contextual, technical, and theoretical dimensions of the specific modes of practice encompassed by their project.

Applications to enter the BMA Honours degree may be made in the disciplines of animation, video, internet art, sound art, and hybrid digital practice.

Candidates must have successfully completed three years of the Bachelor of Digital Media or equivalent qualification normally at the level of Distinction, and have had their Honours Research Proposal approved by the School of Art Committee, or it's nominee.

By the end of this course you should be able to:

1.  Create an imaginative and focused body of artworks by integrating  studio and contextual investigation/research

2.  Select and combine materials and processes skillfully to give form to your ideas

3.  Critically reflect on your research project and explain your decision making process

4.  Identify and analyze relevant historical and contemporary practices and relate them to your own concerns.

The progressive outcomes of this Studio Practice-based course are assessed by periodic critique plus mid-course review sessions and final presentation to the Honours Examination Panel. Critique sessions and mid-year review sessions provide feedback on work in progress and the final presentation is assessed against the criteria set out in the Honours Course Study Guide. Th exegesis is reviewed in draft form mid - and assessed at the end of the program.  Honours Studio Practice Project 89%. Exegesis 20%

Workload for fulltime students is 25 hours per week.

Bachelor of Digital Media or equivalent.

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Maya 7 Savvy, John Kundert-Gibbs (2006), Sybex.

Maya Secrets of the Pros, John Kundert-Gibbs (2006), Sybex

Bernd Schulz (ed). 2002. Resonances: Aspects of Sound Art. Kehrer Verlag: Heidleberg.

Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel (eds). 2003. Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary After Film. The MIT Press. Cambridge: Mass.

Object-Oriented ActionScript 3.0, Friends of ED (2007), Todd Yard

Murach's JavaScript and DOM Scripting, Mike Murach & Associates (2009), Ray Harris

Essential ActionScript 3.0, Adobe Dev Library; 1 edition (June 22, 2007), Colin Moock

Learning ActionScript 3.0: A Beginner's Guide, O'Reilly/Adobe Developer Library (2008), Rich Shupe

CSS: The Definitive Guide, O'Reilly 3rd Edition (2006), Eric Meyer

Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel (eds). 2003. Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary After Film. The MIT Press. Cambridge: Mass.

Randall Packer and Ken Jordan (eds). 2001. MultiMedia: from Wagner to Virtual Reality. Norton & Co. New York.

Douglas Henderson. 2001. Playback. No Rewind Button. Kehrer Verlag: Heidleberg.

Ira Greenberg. 2007. Processing:�?�Creative Coding and Computational Art. Friends of Ed: Berkeley, California.

Richard E. Berg and David G. Stork. 2004. The Physics of Sound. Benjamin Cummings: San Francisco.

Bernd Schulz (ed). 2002. Resonances: Aspects of Sound Art. Kehrer Verlag: Heidleberg.

Bernd Schulz (ed). 1999. Robin Minard: Silent Music. Kehrer Verlag: Heidleberg.

Students will be required to have their own computer, as well as a basic camera and portable data storage.