ARTV2100 Complementary Studies 1
The details for the course, Complementary Studies 1 (ARTV2100), apply to all of the following topics. Specific descriptions for Syllabus and Proposed Assessment that apply to each topic are detailed below.
Animation
Syllabus
This course provides an insight into the conceptual and visual possibilities of animation. It introduces students to fundamental animation techniques and processes. A project is designed using any of a variety of animation techniques from simple stop-frame animation to computer based 3D animation. No additional equipment is required for this course, though it is expected that students will provide media required to store and transfer data, ie DVDs, USB thumb drives or portable hard drives.
Contact: Head of Photography & Media Arts Workshop, Martyn Jolly
Book Design
Syllabus
The Complementary Book Design course covers both traditional and alternate approaches to producing artist's books with a balance of book design theory, practical binding experience and self-directed project work.
Semester 1 covers a wide range of bookbinding and design concepts.
Semester 2 has a letterpress project for the first term and a more basic binding exploration for second term.
Contact: Head of Printmedia & Drawing Workshop, Patsy Payne
Patsy.Payne@anu.edu.au
CAD-Design-Create
Syllabus
This course focuses on Computer Aided Design and high level visual simulation of creative ideas. The project based nature of the program aims to develop skills to communicate an idea or concept through computer modeling and if appropriate produce a real object using the school's Rapid Prototyping facility. Based on a series of given exercises, progressively complex modelling and rendering methods are introduced, leading to student projects defined in their Individual Work with a focus on the individuals interest.
Contact: Head of Core Studies, Gilbert Riedelbauch
Gilbert.Riedelbauch@anu.edu.au
Ceramics
Syllabus
This course will be offered on an intensive basis over seven weeks.
This is a two semester sequence and Semester 1 is a prerequisite for Semester 2 unless there is a demonstrated evidence of prior ceramic experience.
Semester 1 - Introduction into Ceramics through, wheel throwing, various hand building techniques; slab construction, slip casting and coil building. Exploration of surface developing - techniques such as mono printing, relief, majolica, glaze-on-glaze.
Contact: Head of Ceramics Workshop, Janet DeBoos
Digital Compositing
Syllabus
This course is an introduction to digital compositing with particular reference to its application to a variety of different creative arts practices such as video, painting, photography or printmedia. It introduces students to basic computer-based compositing techniques and processes in both video and still digital images. Students will be required to participate in technical programs and demonstrations aimed at developing understanding and proficiency in the use of compositing software and processes.
Contact: Head of Photography & Media Arts, Martyn Jolly
Drawing
Syllabus
A program structured around projects designed to introduce a range of skills and processes. Students will be working with analytical and observational approaches to drawing.
Contact: Head of Printmedia & Drawing Workshop, Patsy Payne
Enamelling
Syllabus
The program is based on the introduction to key enamelling techniques and the colouring options available through the use of vitreous enamel. Students will produce a serious of objects applying a range of enamelling techniques, with the aim to develop an approach to the use of colour on metal and its limitations.
Contact: Head of Gold & Silversmithing Workshop, Johannes Kuhnen
Enamelling in Japan
There are no syllabus or indicative asesssment details for this topic.
Environment Studio
Syllabus
The Environment Studio is conceived as providing an academic forum and network within the School for staff and students who are addressing environmental issues in their artwork. Environment Studio Complementary Studies offer sustained, environmentally orientated field research in the wide variety of landscapes easily accessible from Canberra - from alpine to coastal, semi-arid to rainforest, from wilderness to rural to urban. Field research may concentrate on the formulation of ideas, the seeking of inspiration, the gathering of materials and visual data or the undertaking of site specific work. The Complementary Study Supervisor is responsible for the academic and logistic co-ordination of Group Complementary Studies in the field. Periods between field trips allow for further independent development and critical appraisal of work back in the School Workshops. Field experts and members of local communities may consult with the group to enrich the field experience. A Group Complementary Studies culminates with a group exhibition of artwork produced as an outcome of the participants' individual field research. The exhibition is usually curated by the Complementary Study Supervisor and is held in the following semester. The exhibition takes place at the School and often at a venue on or near the field location. Contribution to the exhibition is not compulsory. Students from any discipline in the School may undertake either a Group or individual Complementary Study. Sustained field research also provides participants with temporal and conceptual space for independent analysis, reflection and contemplation as an essential part of the material construction of artwork. The repeated return to the field location and the collaborative, inter-disciplinary and outreach nature of the Studio's courses greatly assists the development of participants' work proposals.
Group Complementary Studies
Contact hours: Ten to fourteen days in the field during non-teaching periods taken in two blocks normally during mid and end-of-semester breaks. Transport is provided. Nine enrolments and the allocation of School resources are also a requirement for a specific group complementary study to be offered.
Individual Complementary Study
Contact hours: By arrangement but equivalent to a standard Complementary Study with emphasis on an Individual schedule of field work.
Prerequisite: A work proposal investigating environmental issues based on sustained field research approved by the Environment Studio Complementary Study Supervisor. Necessary technical skills and approved access to Workshop production facilities that are required to undertake the submitted work proposal.
Contact: John Reid
Etching
Syllabus
Students work to a program structured around projects designed to introduce them to both a range of skills and technologies and a range of conceptual and thematic aspects addressed by the program of study. At the beginning of each course students will be provided with a detailed outline of the objectives, duration and requirements for either the technical introduction or the subsequent projects.
Contact: Head of Printmedia & Drawing Workshop, Patsy Payne
Furniture
Syllabus
A program is structured around projects which are designed to introduce the techniques of woodwork, with an emphasis on traditional hand skills, tool usage and maintenance. The projects will involve basic timber technology, traditional jointed structures, wood shaping and finishing techniques, and basic Workshop ergonomics and safety.
Contact: Head of Furniture Workshop, Rodney Hayward
Glass
Syllabus
The program begins with an introduction to skills and processes relevant to the medium, providing a basic understanding of the technologies. This introductory stage may include basic glass-cutting techniques, laminating, various methods of grinding, polishing and finishing glass; also mould-making techniques relevant to kiln-slumping and casting. Students should note that glass blowing is not available to Complementary Studies students.
Contact: Head of Glass Workshop, Richard Whiteley
Gold & Silversmithing
Syllabus
A program is structured on set exercises and projects designed to give a wide introduction to the basic hand tools. All students are expected to keep a record of all technical information gleaned during their time in the workshop, including technical processes, equipment used, risk assessment notes, sampling, material research, suppliers lists etc; as well as sketches, working drawings, ideas, inspiration, research and visual reference. Both technical notebooks and sketchbooks are considered assessble and must be included in the presentation of work at time of assessment at the end of each semester.
Contact: Head of Gold & Silversmithing Workshop, Johannes Kuhnen
Internet Art
Syllabus
A project is designed to provide an insight into the conceptual and visual possibilities of web cinema, and to introduce students to web technology and computer-based techniques and processes. Students will be required to participate in technical programs and demonstrations aimed at developing an understanding and proficiency in the use of web technology and digital media production and processes. A material list giving basic requirements will be issued at enrolment.
Contact: Head of Photography & Media Arts Workshop, Martyn Jolly
Life Drawing
Syllabus
A program structured around key aspects of life drawing: observation and analysis of form, anatomical study, and composition. Students will explore a range of drawing materials and develop sound technical skills.
Contact: Head of Printmedia & Drawing Workshop, Patsy Payne
Painting
Syllabus
Semester 1 - this technically-based course deals firstly with how to prepare support surfaces for watercolour, gouache and oil paints, along with the mediums associated with each type of painting. These painting systems are explored through a series of painting exercises that explore the particular qualities of each medium. There will be a strong emphasis on colour mixing.
Semester 2 - this course involves a project exploring the ways painting relates to contemporary visual technologies: photography, film and the digital. In the second half of Semster Two, students will develop their individual work proposals in consultation with their lecturer.
Contact: Head of Painting Workshop, Ruth Waller
Photography
Syllabus
A project is designed to provide an insight into the conceptual and visual possibilities photography, and to introduce students to basic photographic or computer-based techniques and processes. Students will be required to participate in technical programs and demonstrations aimed to develop an understanding and proficiency in the use of photographic equipment, materials and processes. A material list giving basic requirements will be issued at enrolment.
Contact: Head of Photography & Media Arts Workshop, Martyn Jolly
Physical Computing for the Arts
Syllabus
A project is designed to provide an insight into physical computing with particular reference to creative practice. The objective of this course is the familiarization with this new creative field and the relevant technology. It is intended to initiate personal understanding of the varied approaches to digital connectivity and interaction for a range of creative practices. This course functions primarily as a starting point for further study but is intended to make the issues and the technology clear enough to understand how and where it is appropriate to be used. In addition, a practical component adds tangible experience to this course.
Contact: Head of Photography & Media Arts Workshop, Martyn Jolly
Screen Printing
Syllabus
A program structured around projects designed to introduce a range of skills and technologies and a range of relevant concepts and themes.
Contact: Head of Printmedia & Drawing Workshop, Patsy Payne
Sculpture
Syllabus
Construction - Semester 1, 2010
Students are asked to develop work within the framework of Constructed form. They will be introduced to the ideas of construction in sculpture through historical context and contemporary issues. Students will be invited to develop works that explore the formal properties of constructed objects through close consultation with staff to develop a focused Independent Work Proposal. Students will be introduced to appropriate ways of working with processes and materials through the program of study. There will be limits to the scale of works which can be made and the palette of materials and processes that can be investigated due to time constraints, teacher availability and OHS issues.
Assemblage - Semester 2, 2010
Students are asked to develop work within the framework of Assembled form. They will be introduced to the ideas of Assemblage as a sculptural convention through historical context and contemporary issues. Students will be invited to develop works that explore the formal properties of assembled objects through close consultation with staff to develop a focused Independent Work Proposal. Students will be introduced to appropriate ways of working with processes and materials through the program of study. There will be limits to the palette of materials and processes that can be investigated due to time constraints, teacher availability and OHS issues.
Students are required to discuss their interest in undertaking a Complementary Studies in Sculpture with the Head of Workshop before enrolling in this course.
Contact: Head of Sculpture Workshop, Wendy Teakel
Sound Art
Syllabus
A project is designed to provide an insight into the conceptual and practical possibilities Sound as a material and the broader idea of how it can be designed and used in the wider creative community. The aims and objectives of this course are to develop an understanding of Sound Art concepts and practices and the relevant technology for presenting sound in different contexts. While various artists and their creative practices will be discussed, there will also be a substantial creative project consisting of a sound work and creative rationale.
Contact: Head of Photography & Media Arts Workshop, Martyn Jolly
Textiles
Syllabus
To introduce and build skills in practical, conceptual and design aspects of textiles, through a program structured around technologies and themes. Students will be introduced, through set projects, to the basics of textiles construction, material resources and manipulation. The projects will cover areas such as fabrication, felting, weaving, tapestry, silk painting, machine embroidery and applied design.
Contact: Head of Textiles Workshop, Valerie Kirk
The Art of Mould Making
Syllabus
THE ART OF MOULD MAKING WILL NOT BE OFFERED IN 2010
Toolmaking
Syllabus
A program is structured on a number of toolmaking projects,with an aim to produce hand held tools such as engravers and burnishing tools to be used in metalwork and related fields. the program will introduce students to the various steel grades and alloys and provide a means of identifying recycled steels. Please note: it is proposed that this course will run in the mid-semester breaks of the first and second semesters as an intensive block.
Contact: Head of Gold & Silversmithing Workshop, Johannes Kuhnen
Video
Syllabus
A project is designed to provide an insight into the conceptual and visual possibilities of video, to introduce students to basic video shooting and editing techniques and processes. Students will be required to participate in technical programs and demonstrations aimed to develop an understanding and proficiency in the use of video and editing equipment. A material list giving basic requirements will be issued at enrolment.
Contact: Head of Photography & Media Arts Workshop, Martyn Jolly
Web-Design-Create
Syllabus
This one semester long course, explores the potential ofthe 'Web' for presentation and commercialising creative work and its promises to engage in collaborative projects. Students will develop concepts and designs to create web based representation using communication tools including web sites, blogs and e-commerce tools. The assessment of contemporary themes and methods form the basis to articulate an individual style of web representation.
Contact: Head of Core Studies, Gilbert Riedelbauch
Gilbert.Riedelbauch@anu.edu.au
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