Undergraduate Course: Contemporary Art Research: developing a project (LLLA07147)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
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 | Many artists today are deeply committed to research that informs their art practice. Particularly art as research connects form and content while displaying the results visually, represented in the form and content of the artistic work, so that they are an integral part of the artistic research. This can go so far as those artists undertaking practice-led PhD's. This course is designed to act as an introduction to how to establish and develop serious research methodologies into your art practice to deepen and strengthen an engagement with areas of personal interest. The course will be based on a series of short projects involving visual, contextual and personal research created outside the studio and leading to development of studio-based work. |
| Course description |
Over the weeks the course will cover:
Introducing Research Methodologies for Artists
Using Contextual Research
Developing Research Strategies
Developing Personal Research
Beginning Personal Project
Work towards Personal Project
Realisation of Personal Project
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- By the end of the course, through attending classes and engaging in directed and independent study, students should be able to:
RESEARCH
Evidence a serious understanding of and engagement with at least one research methodology and relate this to their practice.
- PRACTICE
Develop personal research strategies, processes and skills which enable experimental and resolved works that reveal individual personal visualisation.
- PRESENTATION
Select, edit and present a coherent yet distinctively individual body of work comprising experimental, investigational and resolved artworks underpinned by personal research
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Reading List
Robson, C. 'Real World Research', Blackwell, 1993
Barrett, E. & Bolt, B. ¿Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry¿, I B Tauris & Co Ltd, 2010)
Nelson, R. ¿Practice as Research in the Arts¿, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
Leavy, P. ¿Method Meets Art: Arts-Based Research Practice¿, Guilford Press, 2008
http://carolegray.net/Papers%20PDFs/epgad.pdf
http://www.artandeducation.net/author/journal_for_artistic_resea/
http://oajournals.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/art-research-journal-of-ideas-contexts.html
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Understanding of how research methods translate into contemporary art practice
Demonstrate an ability to undertake self directed research.
Application of research methods into a critical understanding of contextual research.
Ability to undertake critical and self-reflective practice.
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Robbie Bushe
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Course secretary | Ms Sherrey Landles
Tel: (0131 6)50 4400
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