CAVA1002 Visual Arts Foundation 2 – S1, 2025
XD FINAL PROJECT - 50% of Final Grade
Due Date: 13th June 2025, 23:59 hours
Project Overview:
● This project is the culmination of your first-year studies in the CAVA program.
● You have explored various themes and methodologies, including Animation, Photo Media, Drawing, Painting, Print Media, Ceramics, and Sculpture.
● The project encourages an experimental approach to art-making.
Academic Integrity:
● Adhere to the University's Academic Integrity guidelines.
Project Requirements:
1. Choose an Approach:
○ Mapping and site-specific art
○ Installation art
○ Art as documentation
○ Object and/or Image
2. Choose a Theme:
○ Earth and Environment
○ Society and Politics
○ The Everyday
○ The Body
○ Time, Place, Space
3. Create an XD Work:
○ Combine your chosen approach and theme to create a cross-disciplinary artwork.
4. Document Your Work:
○ Select three images or video/sound links that represent your work.
5. Write a 200-Word Theme Statement:
○ Explain how your work relates to cross-disciplinary practice.
○ Address the following points:
■ What artists inspire you?
■ What is the theme of your work?
■ What materials and processes have you used?
6. Submission:
○ Collate your photographic documentation and statement into a PDF.
○ Submit the PDF to Canvas by the due date.
If you have any specific questions or need further clarification on any part of the project, feel free to ask!
AI must not be used in the Text or Image based content of this assessment task.
Your submission must be a work created by you and not from any outside sources.
Marking Rubric:
● How well does the artwork relate to cross-discipline practice? (Innovation) 25 points
Innovative and imaginative thinking, appropriate to the unit of study, is a measure of the quality of ideas underlying a student's work and of development in their ideas.
● Does the artwork relate to themes within the XD course? (Development) 25 points
You are expected to develop the ability to initiate and realise your own objectives for studio practice and theory work within the requirements of the unit of study and your developing knowledge of its historical and theoretical context. You are expected to improve your abilities, competency and understanding throughout a semester, and in successive semesters.
● How resolved is the artwork in its physicality and conceptual ideas? (Critical Awareness) 25 points
You are expected to develop a critical awareness and knowledge of the unit of study and develop the ability to objectively evaluate your own work, select appropriate methods and materials and to formulate and evaluate ideas/methods.
● How successfully is the project articulated in the PDF document? (Commitment) 25 points
Commitment and self-motivation are important to your successful study in the unit of study. The level of commitment to study in the academic program is reflected in: the development of self-motivation applied to individual, group or assignment based work; the degree of participation in the group work, project submission, essays or discussion; the development of a consistent work pattern, and the regularity and punctuality of attendance and submissions.
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