Unit Outline

What does it mean to act in a global media landscape? In this unit, you will examine the evolving relationship between theatre and technology, exploring how performance can offer new ways to understand, critique, and engage with global media networks as well as generate new paradigms of performance. Informed by key theoretical and critical perspectives from the fields of performance studies and media studies, this unit engages with contemporary practitioners working with virtual reality, social media networks, big data, algorithms, and surveillance technology. Through a blend of critical scholarship and practice-based learning, you will engage with complex issues of privacy, internet cultures and digital identity, and consider how technologies challenge our understandings of human capability and experience.

Intended Learning Outcomes

As per the Assessment and Results Policy 1.3, your results will reflect your achievement against specified learning outcomes.

On completion of this unit, you will be able to:


1.	Apply knowledge of critical theory to research and analyse key concepts, terms and theories related to global media, performance and technology.
2.	Analyse how performance artists adopt, critique and respond to global media and new technologies within cultural and historical contexts.
3.	Identify and discuss social and ethical issues raised by global media networks as well as those explored by artists using technologies in performance.
4.	Use a range of media to analyse, reflect and creatively respond to unit content.

Requisites


REQUISITE TYPE	REQUISITES
Pre-requisite	25 credit points at Intermediate level

Alterations as a result of student feedback

How will I be Assessed?

For more detailed assessment information please see MyLO.

Assessment schedule


ASSESSMENT TASK #	ASSESSMENT TASK NAME	DATE DUE	WEIGHT	LINKS TO INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES
Assessment Task 1:	Cyber Manifesto	Week 5	20 %	LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4
Assessment Task 2:	Creative Assemblage	Week 7	40 %	LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4
Assessment Task 3:	Critical Assemblage	Week 14	40 %	LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4

Assessment details

Assessment Task 1: Cyber Manifesto

Task Description:

Working in small groups, you will develop a cyber manifesto that creates an argument for or against an aspect of global networks and media culture, selecting and using media appropriate to your manifesto. You must demonstrate an engagement with relevant academic and critical sources. You have wide scope to use digital and/or analogue media to build your presentation: so consider how you use sound, image, text and other sensory material.
Please note: you must allow for asynchronous viewing – if any aspects are performed live, they must be documented and viewable on demand.

Task Length:

Equivalent to 1200 words

Due Date:

Week 5

Weight:

20 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Formulate a manifesto that engages with social and ethical issues in our contemporary global media culture.	LO1, LO2
2	Undertake scholarly and creative research appropriate to your manifesto using a range of sources.	LO1, LO3
3	Adopt specific media and/or techniques for your presentation that conceptually and formally supports your manifesto.	LO2, LO3, LO4
4	Work as part of a collaborative team.	LO3, LO4

Assessment Task 2: Creative Assemblage

Task Description:

This task requires you to develop a creative performance work that explores or engages with media technologies, networks and platforms, and key concepts and topics covered in the unit.
It can occur live, or asynchronously, in real or visual space, with human and/or non-human actors, and in a single place or distributed across space. Longer durational works will require discussion and approval from the unit coordinator.
There are two parts to this assessment – the Project Vision and Creative Outcome.
The Project Vision entails the presentation of a concept and frameworks for creative development, and may include a proof of concept, design proposal, and visualisations.
The Creative Outcome is the final, resolved form, developed with rigorous experimentation and exploration stemming from the Project Vision.
Each creative assemblage is individually assessed; however, you are encouraged to collaborate and support each other in performance.
Please note: your assemblage must be accessible without requiring a login or account for any platforms outside of Utas. If you wish to incorporate these, you will need to find a way to make them visible/accessible.

Part 1 due Week 7, Part 2 due week 10

Task Length:

Equivalent to 2500 words

Due Date:

Week 7

Weight:

40 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Create a performance work that is assembled with analogue and/or digital media and networks.	LO1
2	Critically engage with social and ethical issues created by the use of media technologies and platforms in performance and/or participation.	LO1, LO3
3	Apply knowledge of historical and contextual factors influencing media, networks and theatre in the development and final form of your performance.	LO2
4	Undertake experimentation and testing to explore and develop the creative use of a range of media.	LO4
5	Respond to and/or incorporate feedback through the development of your project.	LO1

Assessment Task 3: Critical Assemblage

Task Description:

You will develop an assemblage that presents a structured argument or analysis of global media and performance, responding to specific media platforms, technologies or events in relation to critical theory and relevant artistic projects.
You have scope to adopt different forms for this assemblage – including the traditional essay format, but also the use of websites, blog posts, social media posts, and audio and video content.
In developing your assemblage, be mindful of criteria 1 – to present a structured argument or analysis; and consider how the parts of your assemblage connect or fit together. Submit your assemblage as a contained file, or link with instruction to MyLO.
Please note: your assemblage must be accessible without requiring a login or account for any platforms outside of Utas. If you wish to incorporate these, you will need to find a way to make them visible/accessible.

Task Length:

2500 words or equivalent

Due Date:

Week 14

Weight:

40 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Research Essay	LO1, LO4
2	Develop a critical assemblage that presents a structured argument or analysis.	LO1, LO4
3	Demonstrate scholarly research, drawing on a range of appropriate sources.	LO1, LO2, LO3
4	Apply relevant critical and/or theorical perspectives as part of analysis.	LO1, LO2, LO3
5	Identify how performances or artworks can adopt, critique and respond to global media and new technologies.	LO2, LO3
6	Coherence of assemblage including writing and other media, and referencing	LO4

How your final result is determined

To pass this unit, you need to demonstrate your attainment of each of the Intended Learning Outcomes, achieve a final unit grade of 50% or greater, and pass any hurdle tasks.

Submission of assignments

Where practicable, assignments should be submitted to an assignment submission folder in MYLO. You must submit assignments by the due date or receive a penalty (unless an extension of time has been approved by the Unit Coordinator). Students submitting any assignment in hard copy, or because of a practicum finalisation, must attach a student cover sheet and signed declaration for the submission to be accepted for marking.

Academic integrity

Academic integrity is about acting responsibly, honestly, ethically, and collegially when using, producing, and communicating information with other students and staff members.

In written work, you must correctly reference the work of others to maintain academic integrity. To find out the referencing style for this unit, see the assessment information in the MyLO site, or contact your teaching staff. For more detail about Academic Integrity, see Important Guidelines & Support.

Requests for extensions

If you are unable to submit an assessment task by the due date, you should apply for an extension.

A request for an extension should first be discussed with your Unit Coordinator or teaching support team where possible. A request for an extension must be submitted by the assessment due date, except where you can provide evidence it was not possible to do so. Typically, an application for an extension will be supported by documentary evidence: however, where it is not possible for you to provide evidence please contact your Unit Coordinator.

The Unit Coordinator must notify you of the outcome of an extension request within 3 working days of receiving the request.

Late penalties

Assignments submitted after the deadline will receive a late penalty of 5% of the original available mark for each calendar day (or part day) that the assignment is late. Late submissions will not be accepted more than 10 calendar days after the due date, or after assignments have been returned to other students on a scheduled date, whichever occurs first. Further information on Late Penalties can be found on the Assessments and Results Procedure.

Review of results and appeals

You are entitled to ask for a review of the marking and grading of your assessment task if there is an irregularity in the marking standards or an error in the process for determining the outcome of an assessment. Details on how to request a review of a mark for an assignment are outlined in the Review and Appeal of Academic Decisions Procedure.