Reality Check
Realities explored through materiality in creative practice
Open to all first and second year students
This course explores issues of perception, interpretation and dissemination of notions of ‘Reality’, by introducing a range of ideas and dynamic approaches to image, body, space and time, informed by a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
It will be delivered through a mixture of presentations, seminars, workshops, field trips, and student-led crits. Elements of sculpture, still and moving image, movement and psychology will be introduced to generate discussion and ideas exchange that will help interweave participants’ interests and develop increasingly focused areas of common interest on how we experience reality and the world around us.
With an emphasis on ‘exploration’, participants will be encouraged to participate in workshop situations, as well as engaged in independent-learning projects to investigate real and imagined spaces and human interactions taking place therein.
There will be a number of selected sites or contexts with which to work and experiment and a focus on the use of digital technologies. This may include multi-screen projection and live streaming, as well as synthesizing analogue with digital methods, and examining the possibilities of this kind of hybridity: examples of this could be traditional pinhole images seen through smart phone apps. This fluid approach invites an exploration of looping processes as well as aquatic metaphors such as streaming in order to communicate processes, ideas or phenomena (such as floating, freezing, flooding, overflowing).
Tutors: Dr Susanne Ramsenthaler, Dr Sophia Lycouris, Ewan Robertson, Mike Windle
Course times: Semester 2, Tuesdays 2-6pm