The course is highly bespoke, to support students as an artist working with the photographic as an expanded and interdisciplinary practice (analogue and digital, new media and technology, still and moving image, installation, performance for camera and engagements with the archive).
With an emphasis on contemporary urgencies and socially-engaged practices, this course offers transferable skills in the production and post-production of images through the communication and development of ideas. Modules are designed to encourage independent thinking over a wide range of practices and theories reflecting on the technological, political, environmental and social role of the practice.
The key emphasis of this course is on supporting and developing the direction of students' practice led-research through tutorials, presentations, and regular seminar discussions where they will be taught how to research and conceptualise their work. The range of critical theory extends across dialogical aesthetics, ethnography, post-colonial theory, globalisation, environmentalism, social justice issues, queer theory and gender-based debates, privacy and surveillance, politics of the internet and technological aspects of the photographic medium.
