Image, Paul McCarthy Painter, 1995, video.
Figuration and Representation.
In this course we will investigate the overlapping fields of figuration and representation in relation to contemporary contexts and technologies. We will investigate how the human form collides with various ‘representational’ technologies. What are the results of this collision? What can be salvaged from the wrecked image and what is Post–Representation? What reality do we want to prioritise and activate when encountering images of the human form? We will study and discuss various theorists, artists and academics who have been problematising the relationship between images and reality. You will have the opportunity to develop methodologies and outcomes in a form that is appropriate to your chosen interest and/or creative practice.
Topics/themes include the battle over the real and AI, abject bodies, post humanism, the grotesque, the monstrous feminine and the confrontation of the human body and Virtual Reality.
Themes in Contemporary Creative Practice A and B are just two different names for the same underlying theme offered. If you want to enrol in the course, but it is showing fully enrolled in your Enrolment Online, please contact art.postgradadmin@rmit.edu.au to enquire if a space might be available.
Topics that may be covered: Aesthetics, politics and poetics / Hybridity and postcolonial discourses / Representation and cultural identity through self-portraiture / Reshaping histories / Beyond Borders / Mobility Studies / Voice and the body and non-human environments.