School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Printmaking Studio 2: Photographic Processes
  • Unit Code

    VIS3140
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Paul Gerard UHLMANN

Description

In this unit students will experiment with translating photographs and drawings into silkscreens as well as other print forms. Contextual lectures will provide critical background for investigating case studies of historical and contemporary artists. Practical workshops will demonstrate silk screen, digital photo-stenciling, digital-printing, photo-etching, monoprint and letterpress. It is expected at this level that students will lead their own self-directed project, however critical feedback will be given through group peer reviews and on-going discussion with the lecturer. The student will investigate the mediums and strive to manifest a body of studio work, which is informed by relevant concepts.

Equivalent Rule

Replaces VIS3535

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Understand how to research their studio projects by generating source material through (for example) text, drawings, collages, test prints and photographs.
  2. Create a series of prints using a range of photo-mechanical processes and techniques.
  3. Describe the technical, aesthetic and historical contexts of their work.
  4. Produce artworks that demonstrate a creative approach to the application or photographic processes with potential outcomes being either artists' books, print folios or print installations.
  5. Demonstrate professional and safe working practices within the printmaking studio.

Unit Content

  1. Digital, autographic and photographic processing.
  2. Techniques for making positive and negative stencils.
  3. Photo screenprinting, photoetching, monoprint, letterpress and digital printmaking.
  4. The historical and contemporary context of the mechanised image.
  5. Conceptual application of print processes to contemporary concerns.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures Demonstrations Workshops

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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Tutorial PresentationProposal20%
Creative WorkCreative Project 140%
Creative WorkCreative Project 240%

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.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Printmaking Studio 2: Photographic Processes
  • Unit Code

    VIS3140
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Paul Gerard UHLMANN

Description

In this unit students will experiment with translating photographs and drawings into silkscreens as well as other print forms. Contextual lectures will provide critical background for investigating case studies of historical and contemporary artists. Practical workshops will demonstrate silk screen, digital photo-stenciling, digital-printing, photo-etching, monoprint and letterpress. It is expected at this level that students will lead their own self-directed project, however critical feedback will be given through group peer reviews and on-going discussion with the lecturer. The student will investigate the mediums and strive to manifest a body of studio work, which is informed by relevant concepts.

Equivalent Rule

Replaces VIS3535

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Understand how to research their studio projects by generating source material through (for example) text, drawings, collages, test prints and photographs.
  2. Create a series of prints using a range of photo-mechanical processes and techniques.
  3. Describe the technical, aesthetic and historical contexts of their work.
  4. Produce artworks that demonstrate a creative approach to the application or photographic processes with potential outcomes being either artists' books, print folios or print installations.
  5. Demonstrate professional and safe working practices within the printmaking studio.

Unit Content

  1. Digital, autographic and photographic processing.
  2. Techniques for making positive and negative stencils.
  3. Photo screenprinting, photoetching, monoprint, letterpress and digital printmaking.
  4. The historical and contemporary context of the mechanised image.
  5. Conceptual application of print processes to contemporary concerns.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures Demonstrations Workshops

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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Tutorial PresentationProposal20%
Creative WorkCreative Project 140%
Creative WorkCreative Project 240%

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.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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