Programme

Media Arts

Level of Qualification|Semesters|ECTS

Doctorate | Semestral | 7,5

Year | Type of course unit | Language

1 |Mandatory |Português

Total of Working Hours | Duration of Contact (hours)

187,8 | 45

Code

ULP1962-15357

Recommended complementary curricular units

n/a

Mode of study

Face-to-face

Precedences

Não

Professional Internship

Não

Syllabus

The body of the media, the body of the image. Time, space and image. The image of time. The kinematics. The arts of time. Plasticity of the image. The image arts and other arts. The singular plural of art. Art and the arts. Medium and post-medium. The expanded field of the image. Image and media. New and old media. Obsolescence. Inoperability and re-appropriation of the media. Archeology of the media. Variability and remediation. Sound, text and image in the digital age. Mediation, experimentation, affection. The Art of Failure. Stuttering media models. Art and experimentation: the art labs. The atelier as a place of experimentation. The genesis of the modern spectator. The rigging of the eye. Subjugation and subjectivation. The eye that creates or the imaginative function of the eye. The imagination is blind. Optical machines. Stories of art and technique. From the prehistory of cinema to digital. The place of the images and the body. Case study chosen from the panorama of contemporary art and culture.

Objectives

To problematize the material status of images in the context of contemporary art and culture. Study the relationships between space, time and image. Discuss and clarify the importance of relations between media and technology, especially in the current art of art. Introduce the basic principles of a plasticity of the image. Develop principles of reflection and critical analysis. Establish a critical relationship with work carried out in other curricular areas and individual research projects.

Knowledge, abilities and skills to be acquired

Students are expected to be able to achieve the proposed objectives in accordance with the program and in line with their research interests.

Teaching methodologies and assessment

The classes are preferably organized in seminar mode, which means the option of a participatory model. On the one hand, around the commentary and debate on texts and audiovisual material. On the other, in classes where the fundamental questions of the program will be exposed. In both situations the working methodology will be governed by a broad illustration of the proposed themes. The methodologies of the most expositive classes and of the analysis and commentary will be interspersed and complementary. The first ones aim to clarify fundamental concepts and practices for the subject as well as their contextualization. The second objective is to develop the practice of analysis and comment from the examples chosen and the case studies.

References

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BENJAMIN, Walter (2006), A Modernidade, Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim.
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CRARY, Jonathan (1990), Techniques of the Observer, Cambridge/London, MIT Press
FOSTER, Hal, Ed. (1988), Vision and Visuality, Seattle (WA), Bay Press.
KITTLER, Friedrich A. (1986), Gramophone, Film, Typewriter, Stanford (CA), Stanford Universty Pres
KLUITENBERG, Eric (2008), Delusive Spaces: Essays on Culture, Media and Technology, Rotterdam, NAi Publishers.
KOCKELKOREN, Petran (2003), Tecnhnology: Art, Fairground and Theatre, Rotterdam, NAi Publishers.
KRAUSS, Rosalind (1999), A Voyage on the North Sea: Art in the Age of the Post-Medium Condition, London, Thames & Hudson.
LEAL, Miguel (2010), A imaginação cega: Mecanismos de indeterminação na prática artística contemporânea, Tese de Doutoramento, Porto, FBAUP