Welcome to the School of Art online graduate profile project!

Next steps?

Take a look at the profiles in the Graduate Archive

Gather your images, video and any other content you want to include

Draft your text – a couple of paragraphs about your capstone project, a few lines about your practice, and links to your social media and website. An abstract from your studio work statement is good.

Follow the instructions below to create your profile post

If you have questions, attend one of the drop-in sessions listed below or contact Dr Alison Bennett via Teams

Proof-reading will commence 6 November 2024

Depending on how you like to work, there are different options for instructions:

CREATE A PROFILE POST

CLICK THIS LINK to join the graduate profile site as a ‘contributor’ using your RMIT email address and password. This means that you can create a post and submit it but not publish it. You can save your draft post and return to edit as often as you like before submitting by the Monday of Week 14. The posts will be checked by an editor before being published.

PLEASE NOTE: create just one post on this site per qualification.
For example, if you already have a profile from a previous year when you completed an undergraduate degree, you can create a new profile for your honours or masters project.

You can add text, photographs (JPG or PNG); embed video (vimeo preferred); or embed content.

Ideally, we want you to present your profile in the way that best promotes your work. Please test your content to explore how it looks on the post. Take the opportunity to explore the possibilities of this platform for presenting your work and consider the creative constraints of the medium. But if your capacity is limited to an image, some words, and a link, that is also ok!

There are detailed step-by-step instructions linked above, if that is how you like to work; or keep working through the general information below.

TIMELINES & DUE DATES: WEEK 14

Start now! You do not need to complete the post in one session.
You can save your draft and return later to continue editing as often as you wish until editing is closed for proof-reading at the beginning of Week 14. It does not need to be final or perfect till then, but we recommend that you test it out as soon as possible.

The site will be closed for proof reading at the beginning of Week 14 and go live mid-November.

Note that creating your profile in advance of the graduate exhibition reflects industry practice. It is not unusual to be asked to provide text and images well in advance of an exhibition.

You may have differing timelines if your profile submission has been included as part of the assessment for a course, but the overall project timelines are listed HERE

Help is available! Drop-in session times are listed above 🙂

You can find more instructions on using CampusPress here:

• Posts Overview
• Media & Files
• Embed Content

PHOTOGRAPHY & VIDEO

As you can see from the previous profiles, documentation of your work-in-progress, your working space and ‘behind the scenes’ processes are a rich complement to your final exhibition installation.

If you are unsure about how or what to photograph, please discuss this with your academic lead/curator. In 2022, some groups of students formed teams to photograph each other.

 

timelapse video of Tilly Parsons installing work in the 2023 Robyn Beeche Award exhibition:

3D content and embedding HTML

MINIMUM CONTENT / STYLE GUIDE

Below is an example of minimum content for a profile post. You may explore the best way to present your profile but we ask that you follow the style guidelines noted below.

Screenshot of published template post:

Screenshot of ‘Edit Post’ interface in ‘Classic Editor’ mode.
Note settings on right hand side:
Featured image, categories, & tags.

MEDIA LIBRARY

It works best if you add your image captions to your image files within the media library, rather than directly within the post interface.

Fill out the media attachment details like the screenshot below in the media library before you insert the images into the post.

Please caption all images and visual content in exactly this manner:
Artist Name, ‘title’, year, media, photo: Name Photographer (if applicable).

OPTIMISING IMAGE FILES FOR WEB

• When preparing your files before upload, we recommend:
  • – Optimum pixel width 2,000 pixels wide
  • – Minimum pixel width 1,000 pixels wide
  • – If you need a quick easy tool to resize your image files, try
    https://express.adobe.com/tools/image-resize
• CampusPress will not let you upload images over 50mb in file size. If it is too big, the computer will say ‘no’.
• Allowed file types listed here: https://docs.campuspress.com/en/articles/358-allowed-file-types
• If you can, we recommend the following file naming convention:
  

  Year-Discipline-Program-Your-Name-Title-PixelWidth

  • For example: 2023-Photo-BA-Alison-Bennett-elands_1000px.jpeg

PERMISSION TO PUBLISH YOUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Students need to complete the Intellectual Property Permission form here: https://forms.office.com/r/6aac8hcv5r  

yours

Dr Alison Bennett
Associate Dean, Photography
RMIT School of Art
alison.bennett@rmit.edu.au or message me via Teams

more examples of images and content

You can embed HTML such as 3d models from Sketchfab:

Rebecca Nadjowski, installation of ‘interference pattern’ at Monash Gallery of Art, 2022.

 

 

 

 

 

View this post on Instagram

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A post shared by Celline Mercado (@gacelline)

timelapse video of Tilly Parsons installing work in the 2023 Robyn Beeche Award exhibition

Alison Bennett, testing of gesture control interface for vegetal/digital, 2022

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

You can find instructions on using CampusPress here:

• Posts Overview
• Media & Files
• Embed Content

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fyi more images from graduates

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