Ethics and Ideology

This module explores how writing is critically connected to your art practice as a tool to develop, position, and communicate your work, and as a medium in and of itself. Through language-based exercises and lectures, the module guides you in identifying and analyzing context, research questions, and key references. Increased familiarity with art discourse is emphasized as a gateway to forging agency as an artist and deciphering the ethical implications of your practice for yourself, your audience, and the environment. Consideration is given to ethical use of references, citations, and artificial intelligence within writing practice.

REF300 connects to your work in ART300 and is further supported by the discourse and theory found in the elective PRO modules.

Themes:

• Ethics
• Bias and positionality
• Research and accountability

REF modules are designed to position your practice in relation to histories and theories of practice, incrementally building from understanding the terrain to defining it in relation to your own artistic activities. Professional practice is included through emphasis on how writing and word-based communication is used in professional contexts.

Knowledge

• Demonstrate critical and reflective writing connected to own art practice

Skills

• Demonstrate understanding of strategies and discernment in chosen approaches
• Demonstrate ethical considerations in own practice

General competence

• Actively use the library and other relevant resources
• Critically reflect on ethics and artistic strategies relating to plagiarism versus homage
• Explore AI possibilities and problems in relation to your own writing process
• Use peers as audience and as part of the editing processes