ACV307 - Practice-Led Research in the Visual Arts
Unit details
| Year | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne) |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: David Cross |
| Prerequisite: | Students must have completed one credit point at level 1 or 2 of any ACA, ACV or ACI coded unit, plus one credit point at level 2 in any unit |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment: | 1 x 3-hour on-campus seminar per week |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
Content
The focus of this unit is to build an artistic practice that examines a spectrum of visual arts methods and approaches. Beginning with an artwork produced previously, the student will seek to use this artefact as the basis for producing a number of new versions. Instead of concentrating on the content of this work, emphasis will be placed on how to develop or remediate new understandings and forms based on the four precepts of time, scale, material and context. In examining these four key artistic themes or inflections, students will seek to develop new understandings of how artworks can be modified or rethought to achieve distinctly different outcomes. Consisting of a series of workshops and case study presentations, students will develop skills in how to extend the resolution of artworks beyond one fixed way of researching, making and resolving. Following the production of a folio of four different remediated artworks produced across the first 6 weeks, students will produce a final new artwork in response to these experiments across the final five weeks of the trimester.
Learning outcomes
| ULO | These are the Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs) |
|---|---|---|
| ULO1 | Critically reflect on and evaluate key concepts and ideas relevant to the visual arts and apply these to the development of creative works | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO2 | Apply and critically assess appropriate studio strategies to create a resolved body of art works. | GLO4: Critical thinking GLO5: Problem solving GLO6: Self-management |
| ULO3 | Research and analyse a range of influences and interests and apply these to the execution of a self-directed studio project | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO5: Problem solving GLO6: Self-management |
| ULO4 | Generate material, conceptual and technical solutions | GLO5: Problem solving |
Assessment
| Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment 1: Proposal | 800 words | 20% | Week 5 |
| Assessment 2: Folio | 2000 words or equivalent | 50% | Week 11 |
| Assessment 3 (Group): Final work | 1200 words or equivalent | 30% | Week 11 |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning resource
The texts and reading list for ACV307 can be found via the University Library.
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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