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SM6346 - Social Media, Aesthetics, and Curation

Offering Academic Unit
School of Creative Media
Credit Units
3
Course Duration
One Semester
Course Offering Term*:
Semester B 2024/25

* 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

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