"Installation Art in the New Millennium: The Empire of the Senses" Nicolas De Oliveira, Nicola Oxley, Michael Petry Thames and Hudson Ltd 2004 ISBN: 0500284512
"New Media in Art (Second Edition)" Michael Rush Thames and Hudson Ltd 2005 ISBN: 0500203784
"Vitamin P" Barry Schwabsky (Introduction) Phaiden 2004 ISBN: 0714844462
"Making Contemporary Art: How Today's Artists Think and Work" Linda Weintraub Thames and Hudson Ltd 2003 ISBN: 0500284237
"The Poetics of Space" Gaston Bachelard Beacon Press 1994 ISBN: 0807064734
"What Painting Is" James Elkins Publisher: Routledge 2000 ISBN: 0415926629
"Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Art" Douglas Kahn The MIT Press 2001 ISBN: 0262611724
"The Auditory Culture Reader" Michael Bull (Editor), Les Back (Editor) Berg Publishers 2004 ISBN: 1859736181
"Live: Art and Performance" Adrian Heathfield Tate Publishing 2004 ISBN: 1854375016
"Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present" RoseLee Goldberg Thames and Hudswon Ltd. 2001 ISBN: 0500203393
"The Photograph as Contemporary Art" Charlotte Cotton Thames and Hudson Ltd. 2004 ISBN: 0500203806
"Digital Art" Christiane Paul Thames and Hudson Ltd. 200 ISBN: 0500203679
"Internet Art" Rachel Greene Thames and Hudson Ltd. 2004 ISBN: 0500203768
"Art in Theory 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas" Charles Harrison and Paul Wood Blackwell Publishers 2002 ISBN: 0631227083
"Art and Artifact: The Museum as Medium" James Putnam Thames and Hudson Ltd. 2001 ISBN: 0500237905
"Site Specific Art: Performance, Place and Documentation" Nick Kaye Routledge 2000 ISBN: 0415185599
"Contemporary Art: From Studio to Situation" Claire Doherty Black Dog Publishing 2005 ISBN: 1904772064
"Exhibiting Authenticity" David Phillips Manchester University Press 1997 ISBN: 0719047978

Students are expected to take advantage of the extensive library facilities available within the University; keeping abreast of current developments through appropriate periodicals and being aware of the work of major practitioners in their subject.

Studio space
Access to workshop facilities and technical support appropriate to the representational resources you employ
Slide Projection facilities and suitable accommodation for the presentation of work
Access to library and slide library

Non-specialist computing facilities for email, internet access, word processing, database, spreadsheet and basic presentations will be available through LLRS/ITS facilities on campus, not from within the School itself - the exception being the School's Student Browsers based in studios which will support email and internet access.

Specialist skills for Art and Design modules are delivered, at the appropriate level, within dedicated workshop units. These skills packages have been developed to be offered to all students across awards to enhance and develop their abilities and also to underpin workshop use with the necessary health and safety training.

Independent studio practice and related research activity.
Regular staff or student led seminars and group critiques supported by formal and responsive tutorials.

In practice-based modules, appropriate student supervision beyond the stated contact learning hours is determined by the number of students enrolled on the module per semester, and will be in accordance with current health and safety requirements.

The module requires the implementation and development of your Project Proposal. Its primary aim will be to create a platform of studio research from which to create a cohesive body of finished work at a level of competence suitable to be shown in a professional context.

The presentation of detailed proposal work and related research. Assessment weighting 100% coursework.
Each student will be required to produce a body of art works through an appropriate form of studio presentation. The student is required to present a portfolio of work, which places his or her studio practice in context. This folio should aim to map their own practice into appropriate contextual and theoretical resources and show evidence of a testing for resolutions using a variety of expressive means. The student needs to provide verification of a deepening understanding of how that context relates to an articulated sense of a project. This should include a comprehensive artists' statement.