Undergraduate Course: Artistic Research - Themes and Methods (ARTX10048)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course will investigate how knowledge is embodied within artistic processes and artifacts. You will study the process of artistic research from artists producing knowledge avant la letter through to more scholarly approaches. The course intends to act as a bridge between art and more standard scholarly humanities research.
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| Course description |
This course is taught via a combination of lecture and seminar discussions with a greater emphasis placed on the discursive aspects of group discussion. The course will take place in differing learning environments dependant and pertinent to the teaching schedule. This course may take place in standard lecture and seminar rooms but increasingly will seek alternate platforms for discussion of artistic research such as the studio, the walk, the gallery for example.
Week 1 - Introduction to Artistic Research.
Week 2 - Linking theory and practice - Introduction to peer presentation and artistic research statement.
Week 3 - Hidden knowledge - artistic research avant la lettre
Week 4 - Methods and Methodology - Inter-subjectivity
Week 5 - Creative experimentation: Artists as thinkers and makers/ Phenomenology and Haptic Research
Week 6 - Materials, methods and conceptual frameworks . An aspect of this session will be to introduce you to ways of giving your presentation the following week.
Week 7 - Peer presentation - Formative feedback/feedforward.
Week 8 - Ethics and Intuition. Formative feedback on Artistic research statement.
Week 9 - Critical thinking and action research.
Week 10 - What is the role of the artefact/ Where art meets the audience.
Week 11 - Peer summative presentations.
Week 12 - Summative submission of Artistic Research statement.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | This course is only available to students on a Degree Programme in the School of Art. |
| Additional Costs | Students are expected to pay for Art Materials and Equipment. Specific materials and equipment costs will vary depending on students individual choice of method of production.
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Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | This course is only open to visiting students coming through a direct exchange with the School of Art. Exchange students outside of School of Art and independent study abroad students are not eligible to enrol in this course. |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Prepare and make constructive contributions to tutorials, seminars, crits, and presentations on the area of artistic research.
- Demonstrate critical understanding in identifying and communicating key methods and practices of artistic research
- Critically revaluate your artistic work through the field of artistic research
- Communicate your processes in a clear manner which demonstrates and understanding of the key issues in artistic research
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Theory and Practice,Methods and Methodology,Critical thinking |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Dave Sherry
Tel:
Email: dsherry2@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Nanami Chen
Tel:
Email: ychen7@ed.ac.uk |
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