Study-Unit Description

Study-Unit Description


CODE DGA3023

 
TITLE Degree Exhibition

 
UM LEVEL 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course

 
MQF LEVEL 6

 
ECTS CREDITS 12

 
DEPARTMENT Digital Arts

 
DESCRIPTION The Exhibition places the student’s practical output within a public dimension. Students will put up a collective exhibition and a website to showcase their work and they will need to address issues of physical and virtual space, aesthetic display, information and communication as well as marketing and advertising. The students will assume curatorial responsibility and therefore need to negotiate cohesion while also respecting their individual creativity. Students are required to write, design and print/produce an exhibition leaflet and a website, promote the exhibition and source sponsorship.

Study-unit Aims:

- To direct students towards presenting their work to and engaging with the general public;
- To direct students towards a culture of high professional standards in presentation;
- To provide the students the experience of marketing and promoting their product and communicate their research.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Knowledge & Understanding
By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to:

- become familiar with and discuss a diverse range of curatorial practices and approaches;
- create and implement marketing and promotional strategies;
- communicate research outcomes through artistic artefacts/bodies of work.

2. Skills
By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to:

- work in a team and negotiate space;
- reach high levels of presentation;
- create communication and marketing strategies for both product and research;
- handle the logistical and technical requirements involved in setting up a high level exhibition and website.

Main Text/s and any supplementary readings:

Main Texts:

- Lord, B. (2001). The Manual of Museum Exhibitions. AltaMira Press.
- Marincola, P. (2007). What Makes a Great Exhibition? Reaktion Books.
- Green, A. (2018). When Artists Curate: Contemporary Art and the Exhibition as Medium. Reaktion Books.
- Lord, B. (2001). The Manual of Museum Exhibitions. AltaMira Press.
- Marincola, P. (2007). What Makes a Great Exhibition? Reaktion Books.

Supplementary Readings:

- Barrett, E., Bolt, E. (2010), Practice as Research. Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry, London: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
- Macleod, Katy and Holdridge, Lin (2008), Thinking Through Art. Reflections on Art as Research, London: Routledge.
- Sullivan, Graeme (2005), Art Practice as Research, California: SAGE Publications Inc.

 
STUDY-UNIT TYPE Lecture, Independent Study & Tutorial

 
METHOD OF ASSESSMENT
Assessment Component/s Assessment Due Sept. Asst Session Weighting
Presentation SEM2 30%
Project SEM2 30%
Report SEM2 40%

 
LECTURER/S Trevor Borg
Matthew Galea
Adnan Hadziselimovic

 

 
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