Class Arts and Technologie

Art and technology are terms that originally came together. The splitting of terms is a recent phenomenon and aims to account for the distinction between two ways of the human making and producing things. If art wants to be a form whose ends are internal to its means, technology refers to making one the ends are out of the means. In this CU we will try to show the coincidences and the historical divergences in which the two terms converge and diverge. We will enquiry about the nature of art, and then ask what technology is and how it proceeds. By making a historical and theoretical path, where these themes are dealt with, we are at the same time showing how technology and art can be interconnected, thus emphasizing the outcomes and the syllabus of the CU.

1. Introduction to the problem: art as technology;
2. Definitions of Art and Territory of the artistic;
3. The technique: from construction to action;
4. Art: historical approach to aesthetic judgment;
5. Crisis in the intersection between Art and Technology: the case for 20th century;
6. The Fragmentation of Art and the rise of Technology: postmodernism;
7. Art, Technique and Politics;
8. “The Hum of the World”: art, sound and technology.

Oral exposal class; hermeneutics and textual heuristics; public discussion of arguments; visual support material

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