Prof Cert in Digital Art & Contemporary Contexts
Our contemporary world of digital and networked cultures raises issues and questions that can be purposefully addressed through Fine Art Media practices. Participants are challenged to engage critically with how meaning is made, and how representations and encounters are produced, circulated, regulated and consumed in contemporary life, and act upon the ways in which value is constructed and understood by individuals and groups – in the contexts of local, national and global discourses. This Professional Certificate seeks to an engage components selected from a larger hinterland of possible media practices and concerns.
The programme is delivered under the Creative Futures Academy, a dynamic partnership between NCAD, UCD and IADT.
The programme encourages participants to integrate research, creative practice and contemporary methods, theory and contexts.The forces and themes that underpin our understanding of contexts are supported by an emergent situational awareness that offers a rich and potentially restless matrix.
Learners will be introduced to a range of digital technologies, critical theories of technology, creative approaches to technology, and the principles of socially engaged and site-specific creative practice using lab based, studio based and experiential tools.
On successful completion of the Professional Certificate in students will be able to:
- DEFINE: Demonstrate an outline knowledge and understanding of current media strategies and practices, utilised within contemporary art.
- CHARACTERISE: Demonstrate a working knowledge of digital strategies, processes and practices within a contemporary context.
- DISTINGUISH: Demonstrate the ability to undertake analysis, evaluation and synthesis of associated debates surrounding pre-production requirements and other materials as appropriate to a contemporary practice.
- CRITIQUE: Examine professional practices, synthesise and reflect critically and collectively on the results of one’s own work, and that of peers.
Programme Specification and Module Descriptor
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The programme is made up of one module: PGCFAF1018 Creative Principles – Digital Art and Contemporary Contexts.
