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First Year - Spring 2010

 

All First Year students are required to undertake FOUR Media Studies Courses (two from Autumn and two from Spring Term).  The courses result in practical submissions both of which must be passed in order to complete the Media Studies submission requirement (MS1). 

First Year students will meet with the Media Studies Course Tutors on   Friday 2nd October at 12.30pm in the First Year Studio Space to discuss the courses on offer.  Registration for courses will take place online the same day, and the classes will commence on Tuesday 13th October for six consecutive weeks exclusive of Week 6.  Attendance to all classes is compulsory.

 

Registration for Spring Term Courses will take place at the beginning of the Spring Term and students will be reminded of the process via the Events List.

The Violet Hour

  • Sue Barr

  • Open Room 1 / 16 G.03

  • Tuesdays 2-5pm

Photographs made during the fleeting light of dusk present technical challenges but also the opportunity to explore the notions of transience and mysterious psychological states that this time of the day suggests.

Throughout the history of art this liminal state has inspired images that suggest an ambiguous and fleeting beauty and the position at which hard facts become elusive.

This course will introduce students to the basics of photography and digital cameras whilst producing images shot within the parameters of this transient time.

One-To-One Instruments

  • Shin Egashira

  • 39 Reading Room

  • Tuesdays 2-5pm

Techniques for constructing performative instruments, including collage and bricolage, to be tested through application to the city. We will be working both on drawings and physical assemblages to develop design concepts.

Life Drawing

  • Trevor Flynn

  • Open Room 2

  • Tuesdays 1-4pm

The figure will be used as a departure point as we work through several exercises that enable us to study tone, mass, line, simple underlying structures, in a range of drawing media and in short and longer poses from male and female models. We will also explore concept sketches, viewpoint, biomorphic improvisations and remind ourselves of the Matisse maxim "exactitude isn't truth."

Re-Painting Architecture

  • Alex Kaiser

  • Morwell 1.01

  • Tuesdays 1-4pm

Stranded in the corners we painted ourselves into during the Painting Architecture sessions, we do our best to paint our way back out of them, possibly ending up in an even stranger place than where we started out.

Colour and Light

  • Antoni Malinowski

  • First Year Studio

  • Tuesdays 2-5pm

The course focuses on the interaction of  subtractive and  additive colour. We shall be considering micro structure of pigments and other materials as a source of the  perceptual interdependence of micro and macro scale.

Video: First Year

  • Joel Newman

  • 16 B.01 / AV Lab

  • Tuesdays 2-5pm

Students taking this course will be required to make a 1 minute animation. We will start by looking at and discussing various techniques, softwares and directions. Any soundtrack must be composed by the student, while the final piece itself must be submitted as a DVD.

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