SM6346 - Social Media, Aesthetics, and Curation | ||||||||
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* The offering term is subject to change without prior notice | ||||||||
Course Aims | ||||||||
This course explores the intersection of social media and contemporary art curation, examining how digital platforms have transformed art creation, dissemination, and reception. Students will analyse the impact of social media on curatorial practices, audience engagement, and how art and aesthetics is being circulated, discussed, and even appreciated technologically between curators, artists, and their audience. Students are encouraged to understand Instagram, online videos, VR, and other experimental platforms as curatorial spaces, not only from artists, curators, media theorists, aestheticians but also from influencer-practitioners, algorithms, and human platform administrators. In a semester-long guided student project, the course’s knowledge production is through producing an individual or group curatorial work within the existing conventions of social media curation screen ecologies, socio-technics (e.g. editing conventions), and readymade materials on these platforms, utilising both theoretical knowledge and practical know-how. | ||||||||
Assessment (Indicative only, please check the detailed course information) | ||||||||
Continuous Assessment: 100% | ||||||||
Detailed Course Information | ||||||||
SM6346.pdf | ||||||||
Useful Links | ||||||||
School of Creative Media |