1. Apply an advanced knowledge & understanding of a comprehensive range of material techniques and processes, appropriate to your creative arts discipline and practice, in the production of resolved work.

2. Work independently, through practice-­-based research methodologies, to develop critically informed creative work that contributes to the advancement of subject knowledge.

3. Effectively evaluate and critically analyse methodologies and techniques, including knowledge of the conventions and practice of a specialist subject in a presentational context.

4. Attain a critical awareness and evaluation of key theoretical, contextual and critical frameworks of reference and influence within contemporary contexts

5. Successfully develop a critical research framework that positions and supports the studio methodology and practice through research, analysis and the synthesis of information.¿

1. The Body of practice and supporting work will demonstrate the foundations of practice-based research, showing experimentation in an appropriate range of media and approaches that is speculative and linked to a set of developing research questions, aims and objectives. (This should demonstrate evidence of sustained engagement, development and production commensurate with the total learning hours of the module at this point in the programme) (LO: 1, 2)

2. The Critically Reflective Report will summarise progress made on the module providing evidence of the students work in relation to the research questions and their underpinning contextual and theoretical framework. It will include a resolved research statement that sets a clear potential road map for future practice and its contexts. (LO: 3,4,5)

Dimensions of Contemporary Practice builds on students' prior knowledge and supports the definition of an area of research from which to move forward.

Lectures will inform students of examples of research contexts and methods whilst seminars will challenge assumptions and support the building of new narratives.

Statement reviews will guide students towards new knowledge and understanding in order to mobilise the new dimensions occurring in the practice.

Hyper-personalised tutorials, seminars and workshops will guide students towards new practical and conceptual techniques and processes.

This module is concerned with your understanding, questioning and applying of practice-based methodologies appropriate to your developing individual enquiry and its contexts.

The module will be formed around independent practice-based research and supported by teaching and learning sessions focused on debate, knowledge exchange, critical discourse and appropriate skill selection and development.
Activities will include:
Seminars
Lectures
Feedback Tutorials
Feedback Group Critiques
Self-directed generative research and development of projects

Miller S (2020) Contemporary Photography and Theory Concepts and Debates. Routledge
Sekula A (2016) Photography Against the Grain: Essays and Photo Works, 1973–1983. Mack.
Oberborbeck A et al.(2023) Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene Doing Fieldwork in Multispecies Worlds, University of Minnesota Press
Pitts S E and Price S M (2020) Understanding Audience Engagement in the Contemporary Arts. Routledge
Russell L (2020) Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto. Verson
Fischer E (2010) The Necessity of Art. Verso
Portanova S (2022) Whose Time Is It? Asocial Robots, Syncolonialism, and Artificial Chronological Intelligence. Sternberg Press
Lijster T (2018) The Future of the New: Artistic Innovation in Times of Social Acceleration, Valiz

Access to seminar spaces on London Campus
Studios
Library services
IT facilities
Workshops