Creative Media, Photography and Visual Arts for Teachers - TQI Accredited Professional Learning Programs

Foundations of digital printing in photography and the visual arts
20 October 2016, 2pm — 6pm

Please note: this course is open to current registered ACT teachers. Your teaching ID number will be required.

Understand the potential of digital printing in ANU’s state of the art Inkjet Research Facility. Learn techniques and generate ideas in digital file preparation and inkjet printer control directly applicable in the classroom. Make high quality prints of your own creative art works. Working in the Australian National University’s Inkjet Research Facility, and using their own photography and visual art as examples, participants will learn current methods for digital file preparation and workflow management to ensure the greatest print control. They will acquire skills in digital file preparation and management, as well as inkjet printer control, substrate choice and colour profiling. These skills will be directly applicable back in the classroom as well as being the basis for further personal creative exploration, such as in the ‘Innovatively exploring digital printing in the visual arts’ program. Each participant will produce a fine-art quality print.

2pm — 3pm Participants will learn how to prepare their digital files for printing
3pm — 4pm Participants will put their files in a digital workflow and learn the principals of workflow management
4pm — 5.30pm Participants will print their own and other participants files while learning the principles of Inkjet printer control
5.30pm — 6.00 Participants will reflect on, and analyse their own prints and/or the prints of others

Dr Rowan Conroy is a lecturer in Photography and Media Arts at the ANU. He received his PhD from Sydney University in 2012. He teaches the entire suite of photographic courses including large format film photography, digital photography and studio lighting, and large format digital printing. His work has been exhibited at the Australian Centre for Photography, the Nicholson Museum, and the Barometer Gallery, Sydney and the Pingyao International Photography Festival, China. He has been shortlisted for the Bowness Photography Prize, and the Josephine Ulrick Win Schubert Photography Award. He has received grants from the Australia Council and Sydney University.

The cost for this class is $50 per person. Payment can be made here: http://onestop.anu.edu.au/html/OSSwebpayment/SOAEXTERNAL/payment.html
Please select 'Photomedia Arts Quotation' from the drop down items list and add $50 under amount.

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Your place in the course will be confirmed after you have emailed a copy of your receipt to Rowan.Conroy@anu.edu.au