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ARHT6964: Art and the Moving Image

2025 unit information

The moving image is a defining feature of much contemporary art and its impact has been transformative. This unit explores the influences and intersections between art and the moving image. Through studying the moving image in a range of mainstream and experimental contexts - from art cinema, film and video to the impact of the digital and the proliferation of social media - the unit assesses the aesthetic implications of the rise of the screen image. In examining the history of artistic innovation with the moving image the unit also considers how institutions have sought to collect, preserve and exhibit the moving image.

Unit details and rules

Managing faculty or University school:

Arts and Social Sciences

Study level Postgraduate
Academic unit Art History
Credit points 6
Prerequisites:
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None
Corequisites:
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None
Prohibitions:
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None
Assumed knowledge:
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None

At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:

  • LO1. Obtain a critical understanding of the changing nature of moving image screen practices
  • LO2. Demonstrate the ability to critically reflect upon and analyse the moving image
  • LO3. Understand how different technologies and forms impact on the nature and reception of the moving image
  • LO4. Obtain an historical understanding of the changing interactions across art and the moving image

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Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Semester 2 2024
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
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Session 2 Early Census 2025
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
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Additional advice

1 x 1- 2 hr screening/week