Class Art, Culture and Communication

This course unit explores the relationships between artistic production, cultural dynamics and communicative processes from an interdisciplinary perspective. It addresses different forms of artistic and cultural expression, as well as the ways in which these are produced, interpreted and disseminated in diverse social contexts. It also examines the role of the media and communicative practices in the construction of cultural meanings. The unit contributes to a broader understanding of language as a form of expression, communication and meaning-making, while developing skills in critical analysis, cultural interpretation and reflection on the interactions between art, culture and society.

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1. The Convergence of Art, Culture and Communication: - The transformation of art through technical reproducibility: Walter Benjamin's reflections and the challenges of the new contemporary digital media landscape.  - Computational poetics: texts and hypertexts. Issues surrounding automated poetic creation (AI). 2. Definitions of culture - Sociological concept of culture;  - The culture industries: the apocalyptic and the integrated aspects of social media. - Anthropological concept of culture 3. Cultural studies, language and media: The "cultural turn" - Stuart Hall and the school of Cultural Studies. - Said's "Orientalism" and the legacies of colonialism - Djamilia Ribeiro and the notion of "site of speech"  - "May the subaltern speak?" by Spivak - Grada Kilomba's "Memories of the Plantation". Rethinking the colonial legacy. - Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own": art and feminism 4. Conclusion: the dangers of the single "algorithm" (based on Adichie)

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Hall, S. (2016). Cultura e representação (W. Miranda, Daniel; Oliveira, Trans.). Editora PUC-Rio. Kilomba, G. (2019). Memórias da plantação. Episódios de racismo quotidiano. Orfeu Negro. Manovich, L. (2001). The Language of New Media. MIT Press. Manovich, L. (2018). AI Aesthetics. Strelka Press. Ribeiro, D. (2017). O que é o lugar de fala? Editora Letramento. Said, E. W. (2004). Orientalismo. Representações ocidentais do Oriente (Pedro Serra, Trans.). Edições Cotovia. Wolf, V. (2019). Um quarto que seja seu (Maria Emília Ferros Moura, Trans.). Nova Vega.