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School of Art and Design · ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
From memes to LOLcats, the Internet has had a profound impact on contemporary visual culture, and has radically altered how art and design is produced, disseminated, valorised, sold and consumed. This interdisciplinary studio course offers a unique opportunity to explore contemporary social media as content, platform, medium and/or subject for art and design practice. Students will be encouraged to explore social media's relationship to their own work, and will have the opportunity to undertake a self-directed practice-led studio or curatorial investigation. A series of seminars, screenings, readings, guest lectures and online fieldwork will offer a framework for thinking through questions of art and cultural value, identity and subjectivity, control and commodification, collaboration and participation, circulation and distribution. The course offers an opportunity for students from all disciplinary backgrounds (from painting to performance art, design to curatorship) to reflect on the artist-curator-designer as 'content producer' and how to respond, harness or resist social media and its cultures.
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130 hours of total student learning time made up from: Indicative only: a) 36 hours of face-to-face workshops/seminars/tutorials over 12 weeks or intensively. b) 94 hours of independent student research, reading, writing and making. Other Information School of Art and Design studio courses have a limited enrolment capacity. Students are advised to enrol as early as possible to maximise the opportunity of securing a place.
See Wattle for list Preliminary Reading Bishop, C. (2012) ‘Digital Divide’, Artforum, (September 2012), p. pp.434-432. Gronlund, M. (2016) Contemporary Art and Digital Culture. New York?: Routledge, 2016.: Routledge. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315676852. Dekker, A. (ed.) (2021) Curating digital art: from presenting and collecting digital art to networked co-curation. Amsterdam: Valiz (Making Public). Jurgenson, N. (2019) The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media. New York: Verso. Lovink, G. and Treske, A. (eds) (2020) Video Vortex Reader III: Inside the YouTube Decade. Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Lectoraat Netwerkcultuur. Lovink, G. (ed.) (2013) Unlike us reader: social media monopolies and their alternatives. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (INC Reader, 8). Gardiner, H. and Gere, C. (2016) Art Practice in a Digital Culture. Routledge. Goriunova, O. (2012) Art Platforms and Cultural Production on the Internet. Routledge. Groys, B. (2008) Art Power. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. Price, S. (2002) Dispersion. Available at: http://sethpricestudio.com/writingarchive/DIspersion.pdf Arkenbout, C., Wilson, J. and Zeeuw, D. de (eds) (2021) Critical meme reader: global mutations of the viral image. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (INC reader, 15).