School of Visual and Performing Arts

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Multimedia Arts

The BA (Multimedia Arts) is available as part of an integrated four year double degree program or as a 3rd year level on campus where 128 points of credit will be granted for prior study - TAFE articulation.

Double degree study is available with Graphic Design, Television Production or Photography.. So, by spending one extra year at University, you are able to complete a full second degree in Multimedia Arts, in addition to your Graphic Design, Television Production and Photography degrees, whilst being enrolled in only the standard number of subjects in each semester.

This means that whilst you are gaining industry standard skills in your chosen field, you are also able to express yourself artistically by exploring and experimenting with the many creative possibilities of a wide range of digital mediums and technologies, such as weblogs, virtual communities, website creation, interactive installations, projections, online environments and identities, DVD, animation, 3D modelling, sound and music, digital video and photomedia.

If you are currently undertaking one of the three year single degree programs and you would like to undertake the double degree with Multimedia Arts in four years, you can easily apply for a transfer at anytime within the first one or two years of your enrolment. Please contact the BA Multimedia Arts course coordinator if you would like to discuss this possibility.

Creative inspirational content is no more made by a computer than a movie is made by a camera or a painting by a paint brush. A computer is a wonderful tool with limitless visual and aural possibilities, however we are committed to delivering a program in which digital technology is utilised as a means to realise ideas and not as an end in itself. Thus our course aims at a balance between formal and technical skills and knowledge, and the production of innovative and creative content.

The course is supported by a contextual program which addresses the role and effects of technology in contemporary cultural production. Here we encourage our students to contextualize their creative explorations by electing from a wide range subjects in philosophy and poetry to film, art, media and cultural studies.

(1) and as a single degree by articulation.

Course

In the first year students take introductory level subjects in: interactive multimedia authoring and design; web site authoring, design and management; photomedia theory and practice; digital animation; 3d modelling and rendering; desktop publishing and typography; desktop audio and video and digital studio technology.

In the second year students undertake in depth studies in web authoring design and management and have the opportunity to specialise in digital animation, 3d modelling and rendering, desktop video, or digital sound and music.

In the third year students have the opportunity to work individually or collaboratively on specific multimedia authoring and production projects appropriate to their career aspirations and undertake a seminar and research project which may involve an appropriate industry placement.

Course Coordinator

Johannes Klabbers
Ph: 02 69332588
Email Johannes Klabbers.

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