AN2108 - Image, Art and Design: Making Visual, Digital and Material Worlds
Credit points: |
3 |
Year: |
2021 |
Student Contribution Band: |
Band
4
|
Administered by: |
College of Arts, Society & Education |
SP2 in odd years
This subject is concerned with the role of images and objects in creating social worlds.
It explores anthropological approaches to audiovisual technologies, digital media
and museum curating in a seminar-workshop format. The primary aim is to provide students
with the critical and creative means to assess the role that visual and material culture
play in everyday life and how design processes help to explore what it means to be
human. Students will consider such practices as photography, film, digital media,
art objects and other creative expressions, both as modes of representation and as
sites of cultural and political practice. A critical practice of ethnographic filmmaking
will be developed through a programme of film screenings and discussions. Students
will engage with current, readily accessible technologies with which they are already
familiar - their own digital cameras, mobile phones and laptops - and apply an anthropologist's
eye to the use and integration of these technologies into ethnographic, visually-oriented
research. (Note: Specific case studies and topics covered in the subject may vary
year to year in accordance with the research foci of the staff delivering the subject).
Learning Outcomes
- Produce visual work that demonstrates ethnographically informed attention to social
life;
- Critically discuss the ethics and aesthetics of ethnographic filmmaking and other
creative works by Anthropologists;
- Recognise the social contexts and political dimensions of digital image-making, art
practice, and design processes;
- Critically appreciate the role of the camera in shaping contemporary social practices
and identities;
- Understand the significance and value of sensuous approaches to the study of the social;
- Speak and write analytically about concepts, methods, theories as these apply in the
anthropology of design, visual anthropology and material culture studies.
Subject Assessment
- Participation > Class participation - (20%) - Individual
- Written > Essay (including multi-draft) 1 - (40%) - Individual
- Performance/Practice/Product > Creative work - (40%) - Individual.
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:
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AN2102, AN3102, AN3108, AR2408, AR2412, AR3408, AR3412 |
Note:
Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process,
and in case
of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest
official information.