| CODE | AAH5011 | ||||||||||||||||
| TITLE | Research Methods for Fine Arts | ||||||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Art and Art History | ||||||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit provides students with the necessary methodological tools that are specific to contemporary fine art practice as a complex multidisciplinary research endeavour. Through a combination of hands-on exercises, theoretical lectures and research seminars students will be taught how to tailor their research in accordance with the particular needs of each of their practice-based projects. Lectures, which include a study of materiality and composition, will focus on the contemporary artistic context, methods of research, project planning and problem resolution, and the rigours of academic writing as a discipline. Study-unit Aims: This study-unit aims to: 鈥� Better the students鈥� ability to differentiate between various research methodologies (quantitative and qualitative); 鈥� Help students develop an informed critical reflexivity towards artistic production; 鈥� Help students move towards a more multidisciplinary approach to research; 鈥� Refine students鈥� ability to plan, execute and critically evaluate a practice-based research project. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: 鈥� Identify and articulate their research interests; 鈥� Choose the methods of research necessary for addressing the specific needs to their individual project; 鈥� Contextualise their methods of production within the broader contemporary artistic context; 鈥� Plan and efficiently manage their research project; 鈥� Articulate their practice-based research in a written dissertation that obeys the rigor of established academic criteria. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: 鈥� Identify the right sources of reference and device bibliographic/reference control strategies; 鈥� Compile, reflect and write a contextual and literature review; 鈥� Schematise the methods of experimentation, documentation and critical analysis; 鈥� Evaluate and adopt a wide variety of practice-based research methods. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Abend, P., Beil, B., Ossa, V., (Eds.), Playful participatory practices theoretical and methodological reflections, Springer, 2020 - Atteqa, A., Collaborative praxis and contemporary art experiments in the MENASA region, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020 - Debord, G. Report on the Construction of Situations and on the International Situationist Tendency's Conditions of Organization and Action, June 1957 (online), 1975 Available at: http:// www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/si/report.html - DeLanda, M., Assemblage Theory. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2016 - Wiley, C. & Pace, I., Researching and Writing on Contemporary Art and Artists: Challenges, Practices, and Complexities, Cham: Springer International Publishing AG, 2020. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Practical and Seminar | ||||||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Matthew Attard Gilbert Calleja Keith Paul Sciberras |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2025/6. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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