School: Arts and Humanities

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  • Unit Title

    Studio: Experimental Practices
  • Unit Code

    VIS2850
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    30
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Paul UHLMANN

Description

Students are encouraged to work in diverse ways to establish a habit of studio inquiry in their own choice of discipline of painting, printmaking, photography, drawing, time-based art or hybrid concerns. Informed by contemporary critical theory and current societal concerns, students develop a self-directed project to create works that develop a material approach towards making inventive artworks with experimental outcomes.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have passed VIS1800, VIS1815

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Plan and present a visual proposal for their creative project incorporating historical and contemporary contexts.
  2. Evaluate the benefit and challenges of adopting an experimental approach to inform decision-making in professional practice.
  3. Practice enhanced perceptual skills and process to produce a self-directed creative project.
  4. Examine the nexus of theory and experimental visual art practice within current academic discourse.

Unit Content

  1. Devise their own project from proposal to completion.
  2. Introduce workshops in a range of processes, such as time-based art, installation, printmaking, painting and drawing.
  3. Establish an interface between critical reading and studio practice.
  4. The role of the visual diary and reflective documentation of work in progress.
  5. An investigation into the role and purpose of artist's studios in relation to project specific environments.
  6. Introduction to proposal writing strategies.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

WIL - Project

Students undertake an activity in collaboration or consultation with an industry partner but do not spend any time or only a very small amount of time  (e.g. 1-2 short visits) in an actual workplace.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will devise their own project and will be guided by the lecturer to develop their own creative project through authentic learning processes informed by relevant research into contemporary theory and practice. Students may choose their own approach to making across a wide variety of studio disciplines including, painting, printmaking, time based media, hybrid approaches and installation. Students will work collaboratively to develop their artwork through peer discussion; this assists in team and community building and builds personal responsibility. The unit will be supported by a reader which will provide theoretical base for debate to increase cultural competence and developing concepts addressing real world problems.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentProject Proposal30%
Creative WorkCreative Project 120%
ProjectCreative Project 250%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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