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Presentation
Presentation
The program of this CU spans the last hundred years and relates various cultures, providing the construction of a relativistic and theoretically based analytical spirit on the various disciplines of the visual arts, also in their intersections and hybrid and procedural approaches.
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Class from course
Class from course
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Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Master Degree | Semestral | 10
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Year | Nature | Language
Year | Nature | Language
1 | Mandatory | Português
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Code
Code
ULHT7008-26049
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Prerequisites and corequisites
Not applicable
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Professional Internship
Professional Internship
Não
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Syllabus
Syllabus
1. 1.1. In-depth notions of art and visual culture; 1.2. Critical analysis of European and American cultures in the 20th century: study of issues related to modernity and avant-garde: ephemeral action, break with tradition and hybridity; 1.3. Presentation, analysis and discussion of the notion of contemporary times and the museum crisis. 2. Visual Culture and contemporary political and aesthetic debates: 2.1. Artistic production and contemporary movements: civil rights, feminism, migrations, communitarianism and minorities, queer culture, post-colonialism and decolonialism; 2.2. Disciplines and communicational and technological hybridization. 3. Artistic production methodologies 3.1. The global communication society and the web: particularisms and aesthetic hegemonies; documentation and appropriationism; transmediality; 3.2. The theoretical and laboratory processes of individual projects: organization of information, experimentation and possibility of formalization and exhibition.
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Objectives
Objectives
Each topic is studied with the program support the observation of art and cultural objects (texts, films, ...) in the classroom and in the exercise of drafting critics. The aim of the course focuses on the skills of reflection on the contemporary art, good observation and interpretation of cultural elements produced by different social worlds, deepening the relationship with the arts in various domains and multiple instances of communication.
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Teaching methodologies
Teaching methodologies
Theoretical-practical study based on the analytical and critical observation of paradigmatic works of contemporary art, accompanied by the contextualized study of circles of community, minority or peripheral artistic production in the global context; study and analysis of seminal contemporary texts by authors, theorists and artists of our time, exploring their relationship with the history of visual culture and political- social history; study of documents and documentary films about artistic production and its relationship with new media and modes of communication in the digital economy; study of the web, social networks and virtual reality as new creative platforms.
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References
References
ALPERS, S. (1999) “The Museum as a Way of Seeing” in Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display. Ivan Karp & Steven D.Lavine (eds.). London: Smithsonian Institution Press, (25-32.). BERMAN, M. (1982) “Modernidade Ontem, Hoje e Amanhã” in Tudo o que é Sólido Dissolve-se no Ar. A Aventura da Modernidade. Lisboa: Edições 70, ( 15-40). YOUNGBLOOD, E. (1970) “The Artist as Ecologist” in Expanded Cinema, (345-351).
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Assessment
Assessment
Os estudantes devem realizar um trabalho de investigação teórico-prático com vista ao desenvolvimento de um projeto pessoal de criação artística, documentando o processo de reunião de informação, estabelecimento de uma metodologia, ensaios e inflexões no processo.
O trabalho final deve ser apresentado à turma e defendido teoricamente pelo estudante, valendo o trabalho produzido 30% da avaliação final e a apresentação pública 30% da avaliação final; os restantes 40% referem-se à qualidade de participação nas aulas, sobretudo nos momentos de debate crítico e reflexão conjunta com o docente ao longo do semestre.
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Students must carry out theoretical-practical research work with a view to developing a personal artistic creation project, documenting the process of gathering information, establishing a methodology, testing and inflections in the process.
The final work must be presented to the class and theoretically defended by the student, with the work produced being worth 30% of the final evaluation and the public presentation being worth 30% of the final evaluation; the remaining 40% refers to the quality of participation in classes, especially in moments of critical debate and joint reflection with the teacher throughout the semester.
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Mobility
Mobility
No
