ACI303 - New Worlds: Intersections of Art and Science

Unit details

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Year:2019 unit information
Enrolment modes:Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waterfront (Geelong)
Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Trimester 1 Unit Chair:

Danica Chappell

Cohort rule:

Must be enrolled in an Arts or Arts combined course

Previously:

ACC308

Prerequisite:

Any 4 units from ACI201, ACI202, ACI203, ACI204, ACI205

Corequisite:

Nil

Incompatible with:

Nil

Scheduled learning activities - campus:

1 x 3 hour Seminar per week

Content

In this unit art and science are brought together to make New Worlds. The emphasis is on lens-based technology as both scientific instrument and artistic medium. The course will examine the methodologies that construct the worldviews of science and art, and means by which scientific methods can be used for artistic purpose and vice-versa. Pseudo-science, scientific hoaxes, and science fiction and its mythologies are also subject to investigation and creation. Lectures will present examples of artists exploring science and scientists who use or investigate art or discover aesthetic means of visualising data. Photography exists only because of scientific and artistic interest in recording the phenomena of light. Learning the history of its development will provide understandings that can be put to work in the studio practice, and workshops will lead students in technical experimentation. Learning will equip students to make basic scientific documentation by means including microscopy, astro-photography, forensic imaging, as well as to critically analyse scientific claims and visual data. Assignment and folio outcomes are expected to be both artistic and scientific. Collaboration and teamwork will facilitate discovery.

Assessment

Assessment 1 - Time and Space: micro/macro - 20%

Assessment 2 - ArtLab: creative production and 1:1 tutorial - 60%

Assessment 3 - ArtLab: report (800 words) - 20%

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