Critical Frameworks A engages with a range of fundamental principles and contemporary concerns informing critical creative practices at an entry level. Lectures and tutorials will encourage you to discuss issues including aesthetics; the construction of meaning in art from semiotics to affect; material innovations; philosophical discourses affecting practice; contemporary understandings of site and place; and the multiplicity of cultural history/s. Discussions draw upon the many narratives that underpin the understanding of creative practice today, including mining history and interrogating conventions. Classes are not specific to media but draw upon a range of practices from discrete cultural artefacts to the ephemeral and the social.

You will use this course to initiate your understanding of the social, cultural and historical context in which you practice and to begin a dossier of practitioners that are relevant to your practice.