This unit aims to provide students with the unique possibility to engage with art that is relevant to their lives today by engaging with art of the first decade of the twenty-first century. Particular focus is devoted to contemporary practice and thought about art that has formed within a technologically rich context. Attention is given to discourses surrounding artistic responses to the world today, to how particular ecological, political, social and technological concerns of the twenty-first century inform artistic practice. <br/><br/>The unit provides essential tools for researching and recognising alternative art histories to identified dominant narratives. It incites an awareness of... -- Course Website
Prerequisites: any Level 2 History of Art core unit
