In September and October, UAL London University of Arts successively released the newly established SDI of the 8th College of Social Design and DAI of the 9th College of Decolonization Arts. Both the 8th College and the 9th College are planned from the direction of college construction, which is generally a comprehensive consideration of the future. In terms of specific majors, these two newly established colleges have not given specific responses, However, this does not mean that the UAL has not made detailed planning this year. For example, what we want to talk about today is what changes have been made in the direction of pure art at Lunyi Camberwell Art College?

When it comes to UAL pure art, Camberwell Camberwell Academy of Art can never be ignored. However, when Camberwell and his pure art major were mentioned in the past, most of the students may have the impression that they are unknown and immersed in hard work+very pure pure art. In fact, with the "upgrade" of ethics this year, Camberwell has also opened a new major in pure art. Today, we will directly and horizontally compare the professional direction of pure art in Camberwell Art College to see what is possible for pure art in Camberwell!

I believe that many students, like me, will by default classify the major of illustration in the field of pure art, but in Camberwell, the major of illustration/illustration is independent of Fine Arts. Fine Arts subdivides Drawing, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, and Computational Arts. Computational Arts is a new professional direction.

　　 BA Fine Art：Drawing

Drawing, a 3-year BA degree major in the direction of pure art at Lunyi Camberwell Art College, directly explains on the professional homepage:

"Explores drawing as an expanded field of practice within contemporary art" is a major established to explore the practicality of painting in the field of contemporary art.

BA Fine Art: Drawing student work, the picture is from Camberwell official website

As the most basic form of art, painting has the meaning of "recording" and "expression" at the beginning, and the media of recording and expression have certain restrictions in different times. For example, in the initial era, painting was mainly in the form of murals, and later gradually transitioned to canvas, walls, and so on.

But Camberwell Camberwell College of Arts It also points out that when cultivating students in this major, they will not deliberately require students to limit themselves to some artistic creation methods, especially not to stick to "paper". Here, painting can be traditional or completely innovative. Camberwell especially encourages students to combine space, virtuality and interdisciplinary consciousness to create.

In the teaching direction mentioned by the specialty, we can see three points:

First of all, although this major, like the traditional concept of painting, aims and focuses on painting itself, Camberwell also particularly encourages students to explore other artistic practices, such as films, installations, performances and sculptures.

Secondly, understand how painting is used in some disciplines other than art. These disciplines include medicine, architecture, dance, etc. Finally, the school hopes that students can explore and discover history and identity from multiple perspectives through painting in a diversified and creative cultural environment.

In fact, each part of the above three points shows that this major attaches importance to students' interdisciplinary ability, and students need and the school also expects students to learn and create in such a comprehensive environment. Just like several new colleges of UAL, students need to have multi-dimensional comprehensive interdisciplinary ability.

In terms of specific courses, the courses in the first two years are divided into three units. The last year is the graduation year, and there are only two units. However, the proportion of credits in this part is no less than that in the previous two years. Because it is an undergraduate major, the first year's learning content is basically all professional foundation and aesthetic theory type courses. The school will help students build a more comprehensive comprehensive aesthetic construction, so as to better link the second year's courses.

　　 BA Fine Art：Painting

In the impression of most people, Painting, a pure art major of Camberwell Art College, is an artistic expression form of painting based on relatively fixed materials, such as watercolor, oil paint, etc., but in Camberwell, Painting The specialty first puts forward directly: "You will be invited to encourage possibilities for its continued reinvention and consider its connection with social, cultural and political change."

The purpose of students' learning here is not only to master techniques or become masters of painting, but also to provide possibilities for the overall development and innovation of painting. At the same time, they should also focus on the links between painting and social, cultural and political changes.

In the part of the curriculum framework, Camberwell of Lunyi Camberwell Art College specifically mentioned one point, hoping that students can further discover the relationship between painting and contemporary culture and social environment in the process of learning, in combination with the development of painting history.

Many students have said that they chose pure art majors mainly because of their impression of "freedom" and "emphasis on self-consciousness". In fact, pure art also has its own independent "methodology".

But in fact, we can see from the course structure that Camberwell attaches great importance to students' connection to art history, present and future, and hopes that students can use painting as a medium, rather than a complete skill or creative technique, to carry out critical, theoretical and historical practice.

In particular, Camberwell of Lunyi Camberwell Art College also mentioned that students will not only focus on painting, but also extensively dabble in printmaking, photography, film, dynamic image, digital art, ceramics, wood art and metal materials. In this way, students can consider using the most "extensive" painting methods to create in combination with other art forms.

In terms of curriculum structure, it is similar to BA Fine Art: Drawing. It is also three academic years. The first two academic years are four units, and the last year is two units. It is reserved for students to carry out graduation design and creative exhibition.

　　 BA Fine Art：Photography

Camberwell of Camberwell Art College of Lunyi has two keywords for this major: open&experimental, open and experimental. Compared with all kinds of painting majors, photography itself "started" later, and its production also has a little "experimental". For artists, photography, as an artistic expression way that distinguishes from painting art, can often be more abstract but also truly express some concepts and ideas.

In the specific curriculum planning, Camberwell pointed out that students will be guided to start from the basics of photography, and then extend to the use of photography in the process of global culture, as well as the extensive development of photography and image production and other related industries/majors.

For students, here, they can not only learn the creative skills of photography, but also further explore a series of learning based on images, such as the historical development of images/images, and the potential and deep meaning they have in some daily scenes and special environments when they are used as social and political tools. The school will also guide students to explore the deep impact of photography on society, so as to help students find the other side of photography that is different from painting.

Secondly, the specialty of photography lies in the fact that photography is also a kind of "story" art language, so students often need to consider the story of images when using photography for artistic expression. This is also what Camberwell values very much.

In terms of curriculum, the three academic years are divided into three progressive stages. Each stage includes 30 teaching cycles. Similarly, there are 4 units in the first two academic years and only 2 units in the last year. On the whole, the learning content has a certain amount of homework for students. The school gives instructions that there are basically 40 hours of basic learning every week. Therefore, there will be a little pressure for students who choose to study photography in Camberwell.

However, Camberwell of Lunyi Camberwell College of Arts should pay more attention to the fact that students can choose to go abroad for exchange study in the second academic year. This is also a rare and useful opportunity for photography majors.

　　 BA Fine Art：Sculpture

Similar to the previous majors we have seen, Sculpture is not just a major to explore sculpture. In addition to sculpture itself, students will explore and discover more based on "materials". For example, in the professional introduction, "BA Fine Art Sculpture at Camberwell College of Arts invites you to explore the interactive between materials, social practices and cultural contexts."

This major will explore the interaction between materials, social practices, and cultural backgrounds.

In addition to the noun sculpture in the interpretation, the word "sculpt" often has the meaning of "shaping" when it is used as a verb. Camberwell has made this major dynamic, and further inspired students to explore the concept of "shaping" through materials.

In the framework of the curriculum, we see a sentence like this: thinking through making, students will think, but also practice and create based on thinking. The purpose of this is to enable students to better understand the relationship between human beings and everything. Here, Camberwell also mentioned that he reflected on the relationship and interaction between people and the material world through a postcolonial perspective.

At the beginning, we mentioned that UAL London University of the Arts The 9th College was opened this Monday, and the main theme of the 9th College is decolonization. We can see from this that the UAL is deeply determined to explore the theme of "colonization".

In the "WHAT TO EXPECT", the first three points deserve special attention:

　　“To develop and explore your practice as part of an inclusive, Ethical and sustainable studio culture with collaboration at its heart "/The overall learning environment is a very inclusive, ethical and sustainable team studio atmosphere. (It should be noted here that Camberwell specifically mentioned "sustainability", which is not only the characteristic of this major, but also one of the key themes of the 8th college newly opened by the UAL this year!)

"To explore sculpture's status in the contemporary fine art world and its continuously evolving position due to social and political factors".

"To invest traditional and digital material practices associated with sculpture supported by technical study".

　　 BA Fine Art：Computational Arts

Finally speaking of the new major mentioned in today's title, the reason why most students would have a very "traditional" impression of Camberwell's pure art in the past has a lot to do with Camberwell's professional dimension of pure art. As we can see, although the pure art major of Camberwell Art College is divided into several directions, And in the teaching philosophy, we also very much advocate the awareness of interdisciplinary and combining other disciplines to create and explore.

However, in fact, Camberwell of the Camberwell Art Institute of London Arts has not had a very "sophisticated" major for students to choose. This is also the reason why Camberwell, despite its excellent performance over the years, is still unable to shake off its obscurity.

The newly opened Computational Arts can be seen as Camberwell's new attempt at science and technology and new professional dimensions, and it is very interesting that we can see the college of CCI very frequently on the official website page of this major.

As the highlight of last year's UAL, the emergence of CCI can be said to be a dark horse, which was created with the attitude of the entire college. From college settings to professional tutors, to specific majors and courses, all reveal the school's attempt and determination in emerging art fields.

In the professional introduction section, it was mentioned that Camberwell's main orientation for this major is: "introduce you to new technologies that are changing the interface between art and culture."/Lead students to explore and study emerging technologies that can change the relationship between art and culture.

However, one of the "awkward" problems at present is that because it is a newly opened major, it can be said that it is now in the stage of curriculum research and development and pilot. Therefore, some specific curriculum planning, teaching direction, educational philosophy, etc. of this major in the future are still unable to give us a definite conclusion.

However, in the initially determined curriculum framework, we also see words such as "computational creativity", "artistic intelligence", "sound", and "moving image". Previously, we mentioned the word "UAL", and I'm afraid LCC is the one that can be linked with these words.

But now, thanks to the official landing of CCI College and the smooth start of its operation, Camberwell of Lunyi Camberwell Art College has also successfully started to build this major with the help of CCI. Although this major is still classified in the field of Fine Art, it is completely different from the previous several Fine Art majors and is a very new pure art field. For example, students here may carry out "smart topics" related to smart cities, human-computer interaction, digital citizens, big data, etc.

In "What to expect", there are several important points:

First of all, Camberwell of Lunyi Camberwell College of Art also made it clear that this major needs students to spend a lot of time together between Fine Art Studios and CCI, that is, this major will "rely" on the software and hardware facilities of CCI.

Secondly, in a series of courses and practices, students will expand their understanding of the possibility of digital art and regard it as an art field with broad development potential.

In addition to the above two points, in terms of courses, students will mostly involve Java, Javascript, C++, Processing, OpenFrameworks, P5.js, Arduino and other computer languages. In an immersive media based digital learning atmosphere, develop your artistic potential and explore advanced visualization of computer and physical dimensions.

In the current initial curriculum framework, in the first year, students will understand and deeply understand the position of digital art in the field of contemporary art and the development process of art, as well as the relationship between digital art and the times through a series of systematic learning. In this way, students will get a more comprehensive framework of computer art discipline.

The second year is also critical for students. Students need to choose a more specific professional direction according to their future development plans or interest directions, and under the CCI immersion teaching atmosphere, to enrich and deepen the discipline framework obtained in the first grade.

In addition, since students have begun to formally contact some projects and creative practices at this time, the school will pay special attention to cultivating students' critical thinking, and place students in a comprehensive team/studio atmosphere for mutual influence and mutual stimulation.

In general, the courses of the third year are the same as those of the previous majors. In summary, they are completed, but different from the previous majors, Computational Arts gives students more space to "play freely", and students can even choose the final graduation output. For example, it can be completed alone or together with the team; The final output can be a paper or a practical project.

From last year to this year, the UAL, which did not make major moves before, has changed from 6 to 9 colleges, and different colleges have opened new majors respectively. The UAL has made great changes in one year. Today, although we have only made a detailed horizontal comparison of several majors in the field of pure art direction of Lonyi Camberwell Art College, we have also seen a lot of new directions of UAL in the future planning, such as "interdisciplinary", "sustainable", "post colonial", and so on. In fact, these words and new professional changes are not only pure art majors, but also reflect the future plans of the whole UAL from the back. For those students whose ethics are included in the list of target universities, the successive changes of UAL may also bring some inspiration to your application planning and work collection.

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