EEA212 - Visual Culture: Images, Meaning and Contexts

Unit details

Enrolment modes:	(B, G, S, W)
Credit point(s):	1
EFTSL value:	0.125
Unit chair:	S Hannigan
Campus contact:	E Hirsh (B), J Grenfell (G, S, W)
Contact hours:	3 hours of seminar/workshops per week.

Content

This unit looks at the ways in which varying cultural and social conditions determine the production and consumption of visual culture, How do we use images to express ourselves, to communicate, to experience pleasure, and to learn?

It focuses on the concept that images and objects are continuously seen and instantaneously interpreted, forming new knowledge and new images of identity and environment. In this context, art is a form of social reproduction in which the creation of a work of art is only part of the product, it is the viewer who completes the work. What is produced forms a social relationship between the individual and the art form.

Through studio practice and tutorial seminars, students will develop understandings of the relationship between meaning and cultural context, identify aspects of the relationship between cultural production and social conditions, articulate concepts of contemporary theory in visual culture in their writing and locate aspects of their own practice within a defined cultural context.

Assessment

Assignment 1: Tutorial presentation (2500 words or equivalent, 50%).
Assignment 2: Suite of artworks (4) based around a theme (50%).

 

Unit Fee Information

Student Contribution Rate*	Student Contribution Rate**	Fee rate - Domestic Students	Fee rate - International students
$733	$733	$2493	$2823

* Rate for all CSP students, except for those who commenced Education and Nursing units pre 2010
** Rate for CSP students who commenced Education and Nursing units pre 2010
Please note: Unit fees listed do not apply to Deakin Prime students.