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Faculty of Education and Arts

School: Communications and Arts

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

    Photographic Printmaking

  • Unit Code

    VIS3535

  • Year

    2015

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

This unit investigates a range of photo-mechanical print processes and reproductive techniques used in contemporary printmaking. This will include practical workshops in autographic, analogue, and digital photo-stencil production and the associated processes of photo etching, photo-silkscreen printing and digital printmaking.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from VIS1305

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded VIS2508

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Create a series of prints using a range of photo-mechanical print processes and techniques.
  2. Demonstrate professional and safe working practices within the printmaking studio.
  3. Describe the technical, aesthetic, and historical contexts of their work.
  4. Produce artworks that demonstrate a creative approach to the application of photographic processes.

Unit Content

  1. Digital, autographic and photographic processing.
  2. Photo screenprinting, photo etching and digital printmaking.
  3. Techniques for making positive and negative stencils.
  4. The historical and contemporary context of the mechanised image.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures. Demonstrations.

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.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit plan may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Research PaperResearch projects 1 (proposal and house project)15%
Creative WorkArchive15%
Creative WorkCreative Project 130%
Creative WorkCreative Project 240%

Text References

  • Bluttal, S. (2006). Andy Warhol "Giant" Size. New York/London: Phaidon.
  • Wye, D. (1996). Thinking print: Books to billboards, 1980-95. New York: MOMA.
  • Schwartze, H. (1996). The culture of the copy. New York: Zone Books.
  • Newton, C. (1979). Photography in printmaking. London: Victoria & Albert Museum.
  • Dexter, E. (2005). Vitamin D new perspectives in drawing. London/New York, Phaidon Press Inc.
  • Davis, D. (1983). Photography as fine art. Great Britain: Thames and Hudson.

Journal References

  • Imprint, Summer 2010. 45(4).
  • Glikes, B. (2010). Frank Bordas and the paradigm shift to digital printmaking. Imprint, Winter 2010. 45(2). 28-29.

Website References

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.

VIS3535|1|1

Faculty of Education and Arts

School: Communications and Arts

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

    Photographic Printmaking

  • Unit Code

    VIS3535

  • Year

    2015

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

This unit investigates a range of photo-mechanical print processes and reproductive techniques used in contemporary printmaking. This will include practical workshops in autographic, analogue, and digital photo-stencil production and the associated processes of photo etching, photo-silkscreen printing and digital printmaking.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from VIS1305

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded VIS2508

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Create a series of prints using a range of photo-mechanical print processes and techniques.
  2. Demonstrate professional and safe working practices within the printmaking studio.
  3. Describe the technical, aesthetic, and historical contexts of their work.
  4. Produce artworks that demonstrate a creative approach to the application of photographic processes.

Unit Content

  1. Digital, autographic and photographic processing.
  2. Photo screenprinting, photo etching and digital printmaking.
  3. Techniques for making positive and negative stencils.
  4. The historical and contemporary context of the mechanised image.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures. Demonstrations.

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.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit plan may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Research PaperResearch projects 1 (proposal and house project)15%
Creative WorkArchive15%
Creative WorkCreative Project 130%
Creative WorkCreative Project 240%

Text References

  • Bluttal, S. (2006). Andy Warhol "Giant" Size. New York/London: Phaidon.
  • Wye, D. (1996). Thinking print: Books to billboards, 1980-95. New York: MOMA.
  • Schwartze, H. (1996). The culture of the copy. New York: Zone Books.
  • Newton, C. (1979). Photography in printmaking. London: Victoria & Albert Museum.
  • Dexter, E. (2005). Vitamin D new perspectives in drawing. London/New York, Phaidon Press Inc.
  • Davis, D. (1983). Photography as fine art. Great Britain: Thames and Hudson.

Journal References

  • Imprint, Summer 2010. 45(4).
  • Glikes, B. (2010). Frank Bordas and the paradigm shift to digital printmaking. Imprint, Winter 2010. 45(2). 28-29.

Website References

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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