Undergraduate Course: Video Instillation (LLLA07200)
Course Outline
| School | Centre for Open Learning |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | Explore contemporary video art culminating in the creation of your own video installation. |
| Course description |
Academic Description
The course will introduce students to the world of video instillation, viewing examples and discussing themes within contemporary art practice, looking at alternative ways of creating and distributing art, experimenting with digital editing techniques, testing out ideas in a group critique format and finally working towards making their own video instillation.
Outline of Content
The course teaching is typically delivered over weekly class sessions of around 3 hours each and totaling 30 hours. Alternatively, the course can be delivered more intensely or as a block if required.
Over the class sessions the course will cover:
Introduction to video and instillation art.
Technological expansions within art practice, how the internet has developed ways in which video can exist
Immediacy of creativity, films being shot using IPhones or smartphones.
Immediacy of distribution and connection. Exploring how live-streaming and websites give us quicker access to work and influence the way we can create.
How art can be viewed, displayed and consumed.
Exploration of the sculptural possibilities of video.
Looking at the role sound can play within installation.
Exploring themes within art practice such as Time and Narrative.
Using a project space format for students to trial ideas of work to be critiqued.
Forming and developing a personal project.
Develop a final work for viewing and final critique culminating with a final show.
The Learning Experience
The teaching will be based and delivered in specialist art and design studios or workshops and will typically include a range of practical exercises, introductions to techniques, processes and concepts, and set projects which lead to more focused and personal exploration. Over the course, students¿ progress will be monitored and supported by the tutor. Teaching will include practical demonstrations, one to one tuition, group discussions and critiques.
For work required to be undertaken after the class hours are complete, the course tutor will set students a ¿directed study plan¿ which can be undertaken without the need for specialist workshops or access to models.
Directed study will include research into a range of suggested artists and their associated movements to engender a contextual awareness. Students are expected to demonstrate how their research has informed their work through annotated sketchbooks, a visual digital journal and practical outcomes.
The Directed Study Plan will include preparing evidence of research and practical work to form an appropriate presentation for assessment.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Research, context and ideas (33.3%) Demonstrate a range of digital working practices and strategies for recording and developing visual information, supported by contextual research.
- Practice, skills and techniques (33.3%) Demonstrate a practical knowledge and appropriately applied digital approaches, to developing visual studies and ideas, explore alternative methods in which video can be viewed and experienced.
- Selection, presentation and reflection (33.3%) Evidence independent judgment in creating a video instillation that demonstrates a level of critical reflection in the selecting, editing, and presenting the work to reveal its value.
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Reading List
Essential Readling
Oliveira, N, Oxley, N & Petry,M. 2004, Installation Art in the New Millennium: The Empire of the Senses. Thames & Hudson
Rush, M. 2007, Video Art. Thames & Hudson
Suggested Reading
Bal, M. 2013, Thinking in film. Bloomsbury Academic
Elwes, C. 2015, Installation and the moving image. Columbia University Press
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Documentation of work development, ability to analyze and critique, critical reflection. |
| Keywords | Video,Instillation,smart-phone,live-streaming,youtube,webcam,internet,art |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Robbie Bushe
Tel:
Email: r.bushe@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr David Lonergan
Tel: (0131 6)51 4832
Email: David.Lonergan@ed.ac.uk |
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