KZB104 Photomedia
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| Unit code: | KZB104 |
|---|---|
| Equivalent(s): | KVB104 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| Availabilities |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,164 |
| Pre-2021 CSP student contribution | $996 The pre-2021 commonwealth supported place (CSP) contribution amount only applies to students enrolled in a course prior to 2021. To learn more, visit our Understanding your fees page. |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,356 |
| International unit fee | $4,668 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2025, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | KZB104 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | KVB104 |
| Coordinators: | Leah King-Smith | l.king-smith@qut.edu.au |
Overview
Making, reading, and critically analysing complex photomedia images are essential 21st-century creative skills. This unit develops these skills through a combination of aesthetic, conceptual, and technical activities, addressing visual literacy, experimental and critical artistic enquiry, and the protocols related to ethical and inclusive photomedia practice. You are introduced to a diverse range of contemporary artistic photo imaging concepts and methods in the context of photographic history and encouraged to develop your own creative responses by experimenting with a range of approaches to photomedia image making.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Discuss and apply a broad and coherent knowledge of historical and contemporary cultural contexts for photomedia art, including the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges.
- Apply and demonstrate appropriate photomedia techniques, including digital and experimental methods.
- Develop your independent creative perspective through contextual learning, reflection, and responding to the informed critique of experts and peers.
- Demonstrate initiative, ethical judgement and professionalism in your creative work.
Content
This unit introduces you to key photomedia art concepts, histories, and processes; visual image literacy; digital image making; digital camera operations; digital imaging software; experimental approaches to contemporary photomedia art; ethical and cultural principles, including Indigenous perspectives; developing a coherent conceptual basis for creative photomedia art; professional approaches to assembling folios of photomedia images.
Learning Approaches
Practical workshops, using inquiry-led and collaborative learning, are the central core of this unit. These workshops are introduced via weekly lectures and supplemented with online resources. Each practical workshop session is the foundation for your independent creative work, building on weekly tasks. The culminating project is a major independent project executed in the second half of the semester, developed and undertaken in consultation with your instructors and peers.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will be given formative feedback on your progress throughout the semester from teaching staff and through class discussions. In addition, general feedback will be posted to the class via your unit Canvas website. You will also receive individual feedback on assessable items via criterion-referenced grading forms.
Assessment
Overview
There are two assessments for this unit, designed to demonstrate your growing confidence and capabilities with photomedia across a range of cultural and conceptual contexts. The assessments are a task-based portfolio of work submitted by mid-semester, and a folio of independent creative work submitted at the end of semester.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Portfolio
You are required to submit a portfolio of images responding to set workshop tasks in a mid-semester portfolio.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Independent Creative Work
You are required to submit a coherent body of creative photomedia work, accompanied by an artist statement.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
There is no set text for this unit; however, readings and other resources will be made available to you via your unit Canvas website.
Resource Materials
Other
Students will need access to a camera or other device that takes photographs, such as a high quality smart phone, tablet, or digital camera and some form of editing software, either built into the device or available on a computer. Students who are not remote may request loans of DSLRs from the loan centre at Kelvin Grove.
To enable your full participation in the virtual learning environment, for example, participating in online activities and engaging with online learning materials, you will need access to a reliable computer with an internet connection, webcam, headset and microphone, as well as a learning environment where you are able to fully participate undisturbed when required.
Risk Assessment Statement
For risks associated with using campus buildings or QUT facilities, refer to the HiQ Health and Safety information.
Equipment-specific risk management will be explained and demonstrated in workshops. Where substantial computer-based work is required, particularly in the case of fully online students, you are recommended to take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work, and ensure that your workstation is set up for optimal comfort to prevent strain or injury.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.KK43 Bachelor of Creative Industries
- Demonstrate broad and coherent theoretical and practical knowledge required for creative enterprise, career development and interdisciplinary collaborations, supported by depth in at least one creative disciplinary area.
Relates to: ULO1, Portfolio, Independent Creative Work - Demonstrate technical expertise to support skills and knowledge within the Creative Industries.
Relates to: ULO2, Portfolio, Independent Creative Work - Communicate effectively in a range of forms across multiple media modes, for sharing and disseminating knowledge, skills and ideas, and collaborative practice and navigation of social networks.
Relates to: ULO3, Independent Creative Work - Apply and adapt creative disciplinary knowledge and skills with agility in a range of industry, community and intercultural contexts.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, Portfolio, Independent Creative Work - Embody social and ethical responsibilities and exhibit well-developed judgement with resilience, integrity, curiosity and responsibility.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, Portfolio, Independent Creative Work - Practise self-management of career and learning with enterprise and an entrepreneurial outlook, including the building of personal and professional relationships and partnerships.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4, Portfolio, Independent Creative Work
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2025, Online
| Unit code: | KZB104 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | KVB104 |
Overview
Making, reading, and critically analysing complex photomedia images are essential 21st-century creative skills. This unit develops these skills through a combination of aesthetic, conceptual, and technical activities, addressing visual literacy, experimental and critical artistic enquiry, and the protocols related to ethical and inclusive photomedia practice. You are introduced to a diverse range of contemporary artistic photo imaging concepts and methods in the context of photographic history and encouraged to develop your own creative responses by experimenting with a range of approaches to photomedia image making.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Discuss and apply a broad and coherent knowledge of historical and contemporary cultural contexts for photomedia art, including the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges.
- Apply and demonstrate appropriate photomedia techniques, including digital and experimental methods.
- Develop your independent creative perspective through contextual learning, reflection, and responding to the informed critique of experts and peers.
- Demonstrate initiative, ethical judgement and professionalism in your creative work.
Content
This unit introduces you to key photomedia art concepts, histories, and processes; visual image literacy; digital image making; digital camera operations; digital imaging software; experimental approaches to contemporary photomedia art; ethical and cultural principles, including Indigenous perspectives; developing a coherent conceptual basis for creative photomedia art; professional approaches to assembling folios of photomedia images.
Learning Approaches
Practical workshops, using inquiry-led and collaborative learning, are the central core of this unit. These workshops are introduced via weekly lectures and supplemented with online resources. Each practical workshop session is the foundation for your independent creative work, building on weekly tasks. The culminating project is a major independent project executed in the second half of the semester, developed and undertaken in consultation with your instructors and peers.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will be given formative feedback on your progress throughout the semester from teaching staff and through class discussions. In addition, general feedback will be posted to the class via your unit Canvas website. You will also receive individual feedback on assessable items via criterion-referenced grading forms.
Assessment
Overview
There are two assessments for this unit, designed to demonstrate your growing confidence and capabilities with photomedia across a range of cultural and conceptual contexts. The assessments are a task-based portfolio of work submitted by mid-semester, and a folio of independent creative work submitted at the end of semester.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Portfolio
You are required to submit a portfolio of images responding to set workshop tasks in a mid-semester portfolio.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Independent Creative Work
You are required to submit a coherent body of creative photomedia work, accompanied by an artist statement.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
There is no set text for this unit; however, readings and other resources will be made available to you via your unit Canvas website.
Resource Materials
Other
Students will need access to a camera or other device that takes photographs, such as a high quality smart phone, tablet, or digital camera and some form of editing software, either built into the device or available on a computer. Students who are not remote may request loans of DSLRs from the loan centre at Kelvin Grove.
To enable your full participation in the virtual learning environment, for example, participating in online activities and engaging with online learning materials, you will need access to a reliable computer with an internet connection, webcam, headset and microphone, as well as a learning environment where you are able to fully participate undisturbed when required.
Risk Assessment Statement
For risks associated with using campus buildings or QUT facilities, refer to the HiQ Health and Safety information.
Equipment-specific risk management will be explained and demonstrated in workshops. Where substantial computer-based work is required, particularly in the case of fully online students, you are recommended to take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work, and ensure that your workstation is set up for optimal comfort to prevent strain or injury.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.KK43 Bachelor of Creative Industries
- Demonstrate broad and coherent theoretical and practical knowledge required for creative enterprise, career development and interdisciplinary collaborations, supported by depth in at least one creative disciplinary area.
Relates to: ULO1, Portfolio, Independent Creative Work - Demonstrate technical expertise to support skills and knowledge within the Creative Industries.
Relates to: ULO2, Portfolio, Independent Creative Work - Communicate effectively in a range of forms across multiple media modes, for sharing and disseminating knowledge, skills and ideas, and collaborative practice and navigation of social networks.
Relates to: ULO3, Independent Creative Work - Apply and adapt creative disciplinary knowledge and skills with agility in a range of industry, community and intercultural contexts.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, Portfolio, Independent Creative Work - Embody social and ethical responsibilities and exhibit well-developed judgement with resilience, integrity, curiosity and responsibility.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, Portfolio, Independent Creative Work - Practise self-management of career and learning with enterprise and an entrepreneurial outlook, including the building of personal and professional relationships and partnerships.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4, Portfolio, Independent Creative Work
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2025, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | KZB104 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | KVB104 |
| Coordinators: | Courtney Pedersen | cb.pedersen@qut.edu.au David Pyle | d.pyle@qut.edu.au |
Overview
Making, reading, and critically analysing complex photomedia images are essential 21st-century creative skills. This unit develops these skills through a combination of aesthetic, conceptual, and technical activities, addressing visual literacy, experimental and critical artistic enquiry, and the protocols related to ethical and inclusive photomedia practice. You are introduced to a diverse range of contemporary artistic photo imaging concepts and methods in the context of photographic history and encouraged to develop your own creative responses by experimenting with a range of approaches to photomedia image making.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Discuss and apply a broad and coherent knowledge of historical and contemporary cultural contexts for photomedia art, including the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges.
- Apply and demonstrate appropriate photomedia techniques, including digital and experimental methods.
- Develop your independent creative perspective through contextual learning, reflection, and responding to the informed critique of experts and peers.
- Demonstrate initiative, ethical judgement and professionalism in your creative work.
Content
This unit introduces you to key photomedia art concepts, histories, and processes; visual image literacy; digital image making; digital camera operations; digital imaging software; experimental approaches to contemporary photomedia art; ethical and cultural principles, including Indigenous perspectives; developing a coherent conceptual basis for creative photomedia art; professional approaches to assembling folios of photomedia images.
Learning Approaches
Practical workshops, using inquiry-led and collaborative learning, are the central core of this unit. These workshops are introduced via weekly lectures and supplemented with online resources. Each practical workshop session is the foundation for your independent creative work, building on weekly tasks. The culminating project is a major independent project executed in the second half of the semester, developed and undertaken in consultation with your instructors and peers.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will be given formative feedback on your progress throughout the semester from teaching staff and through class discussions. In addition, general feedback will be posted to the class via your unit Canvas website. You will also receive individual feedback on assessable items via criterion-referenced grading forms.
Assessment
Overview
There are two assessments for this unit, designed to demonstrate your growing confidence and capabilities with photomedia across a range of cultural and conceptual contexts. The assessments are a task-based portfolio of work submitted by mid-semester, and a folio of independent creative work submitted at the end of semester.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Portfolio
You are required to submit a portfolio of images responding to set workshop tasks in a mid-semester portfolio.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Independent Creative Work
You are required to submit a coherent body of creative photomedia work, accompanied by an artist statement.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
There is no set text for this unit; however, readings and other resources will be made available to you via your unit Canvas website.
Resource Materials
Other
Students will need access to a camera or other device that takes photographs, such as a high quality smart phone, tablet, or digital camera and some form of editing software, either built into the device or available on a computer. Students who are not remote may request loans of DSLRs from the loan centre at Kelvin Grove.
To enable your full participation in the virtual learning environment, for example, participating in online activities and engaging with online learning materials, you will need access to a reliable computer with an internet connection, webcam, headset and microphone, as well as a learning environment where you are able to fully participate undisturbed when required.
Risk Assessment Statement
For risks associated with using campus buildings or QUT facilities, refer to the HiQ Health and Safety information.
Equipment-specific risk management will be explained and demonstrated in workshops. Where substantial computer-based work is required, particularly in the case of fully online students, you are recommended to take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work, and ensure that your workstation is set up for optimal comfort to prevent strain or injury.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.KK43 Bachelor of Creative Industries
- Demonstrate broad and coherent theoretical and practical knowledge required for creative enterprise, career development and interdisciplinary collaborations, supported by depth in at least one creative disciplinary area.
Relates to: ULO1, Portfolio, Independent Creative Work - Demonstrate technical expertise to support skills and knowledge within the Creative Industries.
Relates to: ULO2, Portfolio, Independent Creative Work - Communicate effectively in a range of forms across multiple media modes, for sharing and disseminating knowledge, skills and ideas, and collaborative practice and navigation of social networks.
Relates to: ULO3, Independent Creative Work - Apply and adapt creative disciplinary knowledge and skills with agility in a range of industry, community and intercultural contexts.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, Portfolio, Independent Creative Work - Embody social and ethical responsibilities and exhibit well-developed judgement with resilience, integrity, curiosity and responsibility.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, Portfolio, Independent Creative Work - Practise self-management of career and learning with enterprise and an entrepreneurial outlook, including the building of personal and professional relationships and partnerships.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4, Portfolio, Independent Creative Work
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2025, Online
| Unit code: | KZB104 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | KVB104 |
Overview
Making, reading, and critically analysing complex photomedia images are essential 21st-century creative skills. This unit develops these skills through a combination of aesthetic, conceptual, and technical activities, addressing visual literacy, experimental and critical artistic enquiry, and the protocols related to ethical and inclusive photomedia practice. You are introduced to a diverse range of contemporary artistic photo imaging concepts and methods in the context of photographic history and encouraged to develop your own creative responses by experimenting with a range of approaches to photomedia image making.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Discuss and apply a broad and coherent knowledge of historical and contemporary cultural contexts for photomedia art, including the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges.
- Apply and demonstrate appropriate photomedia techniques, including digital and experimental methods.
- Develop your independent creative perspective through contextual learning, reflection, and responding to the informed critique of experts and peers.
- Demonstrate initiative, ethical judgement and professionalism in your creative work.
Content
This unit introduces you to key photomedia art concepts, histories, and processes; visual image literacy; digital image making; digital camera operations; digital imaging software; experimental approaches to contemporary photomedia art; ethical and cultural principles, including Indigenous perspectives; developing a coherent conceptual basis for creative photomedia art; professional approaches to assembling folios of photomedia images.
Learning Approaches
Practical workshops, using inquiry-led and collaborative learning, are the central core of this unit. These workshops are introduced via weekly lectures and supplemented with online resources. Each practical workshop session is the foundation for your independent creative work, building on weekly tasks. The culminating project is a major independent project executed in the second half of the semester, developed and undertaken in consultation with your instructors and peers.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will be given formative feedback on your progress throughout the semester from teaching staff and through class discussions. In addition, general feedback will be posted to the class via your unit Canvas website. You will also receive individual feedback on assessable items via criterion-referenced grading forms.
Assessment
Overview
There are two assessments for this unit, designed to demonstrate your growing confidence and capabilities with photomedia across a range of cultural and conceptual contexts. The assessments are a task-based portfolio of work submitted by mid-semester, and a folio of independent creative work submitted at the end of semester.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Portfolio
You are required to submit a portfolio of images responding to set workshop tasks in a mid-semester portfolio.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Independent Creative Work
You are required to submit a coherent body of creative photomedia work, accompanied by an artist statement.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
There is no set text for this unit; however, readings and other resources will be made available to you via your unit Canvas website.
Resource Materials
Other
Students will need access to a camera or other device that takes photographs, such as a high quality smart phone, tablet, or digital camera and some form of editing software, either built into the device or available on a computer. Students who are not remote may request loans of DSLRs from the loan centre at Kelvin Grove.
To enable your full participation in the virtual learning environment, for example, participating in online activities and engaging with online learning materials, you will need access to a reliable computer with an internet connection, webcam, headset and microphone, as well as a learning environment where you are able to fully participate undisturbed when required.
Risk Assessment Statement
For risks associated with using campus buildings or QUT facilities, refer to the HiQ Health and Safety information.
Equipment-specific risk management will be explained and demonstrated in workshops. Where substantial computer-based work is required, particularly in the case of fully online students, you are recommended to take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work, and ensure that your workstation is set up for optimal comfort to prevent strain or injury.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.KK43 Bachelor of Creative Industries
- Demonstrate broad and coherent theoretical and practical knowledge required for creative enterprise, career development and interdisciplinary collaborations, supported by depth in at least one creative disciplinary area.
Relates to: ULO1, Portfolio, Independent Creative Work - Demonstrate technical expertise to support skills and knowledge within the Creative Industries.
Relates to: ULO2, Portfolio, Independent Creative Work - Communicate effectively in a range of forms across multiple media modes, for sharing and disseminating knowledge, skills and ideas, and collaborative practice and navigation of social networks.
Relates to: ULO3, Independent Creative Work - Apply and adapt creative disciplinary knowledge and skills with agility in a range of industry, community and intercultural contexts.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, Portfolio, Independent Creative Work - Embody social and ethical responsibilities and exhibit well-developed judgement with resilience, integrity, curiosity and responsibility.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, Portfolio, Independent Creative Work - Practise self-management of career and learning with enterprise and an entrepreneurial outlook, including the building of personal and professional relationships and partnerships.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4, Portfolio, Independent Creative Work
Unit Outline: Summer 2025, Online
| Unit code: | KZB104 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | KVB104 |
Overview
Making, reading, and critically analysing complex photomedia images are essential 21st-century creative skills. This unit develops these skills through a combination of aesthetic, conceptual, and technical activities, addressing visual literacy, experimental and critical artistic enquiry, and the protocols related to ethical and inclusive photomedia practice. You are introduced to a diverse range of contemporary artistic photo imaging concepts and methods in the context of photographic history and encouraged to develop your own creative responses by experimenting with a range of approaches to photomedia image making.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Discuss and apply a broad and coherent knowledge of historical and contemporary cultural contexts for photomedia art, including the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges.
- Apply and demonstrate appropriate photomedia techniques, including digital and experimental methods.
- Develop your independent creative perspective through contextual learning, reflection, and responding to the informed critique of experts and peers.
- Demonstrate initiative, ethical judgement and professionalism in your creative work.
Content
This unit introduces you to key photomedia art concepts, histories, and processes; visual image literacy; digital image making; digital camera operations; digital imaging software; experimental approaches to contemporary photomedia art; ethical and cultural principles, including Indigenous perspectives; developing a coherent conceptual basis for creative photomedia art; professional approaches to assembling folios of photomedia images.
Learning Approaches
Practical workshops, using inquiry-led and collaborative learning, are the central core of this unit. These workshops are introduced via weekly lectures and supplemented with online resources. Each practical workshop session is the foundation for your independent creative work, building on weekly tasks. The culminating project is a major independent project executed in the second half of the semester, developed and undertaken in consultation with your instructors and peers.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will be given formative feedback on your progress throughout the semester from teaching staff and through class discussions. In addition, general feedback will be posted to the class via your unit Canvas website. You will also receive individual feedback on assessable items via criterion-referenced grading forms.
Assessment
Overview
There are two assessments for this unit, designed to demonstrate your growing confidence and capabilities with photomedia across a range of cultural and conceptual contexts. The assessments are a task-based portfolio of work submitted by mid-semester, and a folio of independent creative work submitted at the end of semester.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Portfolio
You are required to submit a portfolio of images responding to set workshop tasks in a mid-semester portfolio.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Independent Creative Work
You are required to submit a coherent body of creative photomedia work, accompanied by an artist statement.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
There is no set text for this unit; however, readings and other resources will be made available to you via your unit Canvas website.
Resource Materials
Other
Students will need access to a camera or other device that takes photographs, such as a high quality smart phone, tablet, or digital camera and some form of editing software, either built into the device or available on a computer. Students who are not remote may request loans of DSLRs from the loan centre at Kelvin Grove.
To enable your full participation in the virtual learning environment, for example, participating in online activities and engaging with online learning materials, you will need access to a reliable computer with an internet connection, webcam, headset and microphone, as well as a learning environment where you are able to fully participate undisturbed when required.
Risk Assessment Statement
For risks associated with using campus buildings or QUT facilities, refer to the HiQ Health and Safety information.
Equipment-specific risk management will be explained and demonstrated in workshops. Where substantial computer-based work is required, particularly in the case of fully online students, you are recommended to take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work, and ensure that your workstation is set up for optimal comfort to prevent strain or injury.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.KK43 Bachelor of Creative Industries
- Demonstrate broad and coherent theoretical and practical knowledge required for creative enterprise, career development and interdisciplinary collaborations, supported by depth in at least one creative disciplinary area.
Relates to: ULO1, Portfolio, Independent Creative Work - Demonstrate technical expertise to support skills and knowledge within the Creative Industries.
Relates to: ULO2, Portfolio, Independent Creative Work - Communicate effectively in a range of forms across multiple media modes, for sharing and disseminating knowledge, skills and ideas, and collaborative practice and navigation of social networks.
Relates to: ULO3, Independent Creative Work - Apply and adapt creative disciplinary knowledge and skills with agility in a range of industry, community and intercultural contexts.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, Portfolio, Independent Creative Work - Embody social and ethical responsibilities and exhibit well-developed judgement with resilience, integrity, curiosity and responsibility.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, Portfolio, Independent Creative Work - Practise self-management of career and learning with enterprise and an entrepreneurial outlook, including the building of personal and professional relationships and partnerships.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4, Portfolio, Independent Creative Work