Class Hybrid Practices I

This course explores contemporary art as a field of knowledge production, viewing artistic practices as methodologies for inquiry, experimentation, and creation applicable to Communication Design. Rather than prioritizing an approach centered on the history of movements or artworks, the course analyzes the processes, mechanisms, and strategies that characterize contemporary artistic production, fostering their application within research and design development contexts. By integrating theoretical reflection, practical experimentation, and project development, students explore diverse ways of thinking, producing, documenting, and communicating, while cultivating skills in research, critical thinking, collaboration, and innovation. Thus, the course contributes to training designers capable of employing methodologies derived from contemporary art to respond critically and creatively to the cultural, social, and technological challenges of the contemporary era.

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1. Contemporary Art and Knowledge Production: from the art object to the process; artistic practices as methodologies of inquiry, experimentation, and creation. 2. Processes and Devices of Artistic Practice: appropriation, montage, participation, installation, publication, and other strategies of production and mediation within the context of contemporary art. 3. Archive, Atlas, and Anarchive: the archive as a critical device; memory, collection, classification, cartography, recontextualization, and the construction of visual narratives. 4. Hybrid Practices and Visual Culture: intersections between art, design, photography, cinema, video, digital media, and artificial intelligence; interdisciplinarity and image ecologies. 5. Artistic Research and Research through Design: practice-based research methodologies; documentation, experimentation, critical reflection, and project development. 6. Laboratory: conception, development, presentation, and critical discussion of an original project.

The course unit is organized around a "Research Laboratory" pedagogical model, viewing the project as an integrated process of learning, research, and knowledge production. Grounded in methodologies such as Studio-Based Learning, Research through Design, Practice-Based Research, and Inquiry-Based Learning, it fosters active, experimental, and student-centered learning, in which critical reflection and design practice develop inseparably. The teaching-learning process integrates seminars, studio-based experimentation, project development, case studies, engagement with cultural institutions, collaborative work, and sessions for critical discussion and peer review. The use of digital platforms, archives, databases, and artificial intelligence tools complements in-person activities, fostering hybrid environments for research, experimentation, and innovation in Communication Design.

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