Assignment One – Visual Culture in Practice

Brief

Write a 1,000 – 1,500 word essay that relates your current work (the work that you made or are making in ‘Body of Work’) to an aspect of visual culture discussed in Part One. This assignment is diagnostic.

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Preparation

I started by reading through my course work and then researching each visual culture. I created a mind-map with reasons why my body of work fits into each category. I then looked at my research and felt that my work fitted into postmodernism better than any of the others. 

Here is my mind-map. 

Here is a link to my research. 

Assignment Research

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Research

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Assignment Research

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Assignment Reflection

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Reflection

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Assignment One

Here is my assignment:

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Tutor Feedback

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Tutor Feedback

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Assessment Criteria

Demonstration of subject based on knowledge and understanding

I have decided on my topic for my body of work. I read through the course work and decided to research each visual culture, so that way I could see which my work fits into. I made a mind map to keep my ideas together and so I could see the links. In my essay I explained why I felt my work fit into each category and even put forward an idea that my work would fit better into the postmodern feminism category. 

Demonstration of research skills

I researched each visual culture in order to understand them. This allowed me to see in which my work would fit into. I feel my research is evident. 

Demonstration of critical and evaluation skills

In my essay I gave reason to why my work would fit into each visual culture but I also gave my reason as to why I felt that it didn’t fit completely in. I was critical of where my work would ultimately lie. I went a step further and put forward another visual culture which I felt fitted my work better, which is postmodern feminism. It is a sub-category of postmodernism but I felt I couldn’t complete this assignment without bringing it into play. 

Communication  

I felt I communicated my idea plainly and in a methodological way. I spilt my work up into section so I could discuss each part before moving on. I believe I wrote my ideas out clearly and concisely.