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

ULP1962-15362

Recommended complementary curricular units

n/a

Mode of study

Face-to-face

Precedences

Não

Professional Internship

Não

Syllabus

1. Definition of the research problem: identification of the critical dimension and the speculative dimension of a project; design of the research methodology according to the specificity and the singularity of each project. 2. Definition and preparation of the pre-proposal: research question, bibliographic domains, empirical domains, methodology, significance of the theoretical study or artistic project for the fields of Communication Sciences and Media Arts. 3. Definition and elaboration of the conceptual map: identify the main conceptual categories of each research or artistic project, in direct connection with the development hypotheses in question and with their practical implementation. 4. Outline of the formal structure and timing of the project. 5. Contextualization of each research project within the cultural and economic framework of the national and European space; historical and disciplinary contextualization of each project.

Objectives

To frame epistemologically and methodologically the research of the student in function of the problems and the objectives of each project. Promote a debate on a multidisciplinary knowledge of thematic and methodologies that can guide and / or complement each one of the individual investigations. Through the presentation and discussion of selected critical texts, to raise problems that reflect the current agenciamentos that cross the fields of the arts and the media, with particular incidence in the questioning of a historical fracture between the traditional artistic creation and the creation from the new media, and the way in which technique reconfigures experience. Reflect on the condition of contemporaneity in relation to scientific and artistic production.

Knowledge, abilities and skills to be acquired

Identify and define theoretical, methodological, technical and aesthetic tools that can be called for the design and execution of a research project. Know how to articulate a personal position with a historical, theoretical and critical conceptualization. Identify the specificity and the conditions of an academic PhD project - monographic or artistic, with theoretical aspects and practical aspects - and reflect such specificity and conditions in relation to other modes of thought or creative practices. Promote media literacy, taking into account its cultural, social and political impact. Align different areas of knowledge, combine technical instruments and reconcile aesthetic standards, so as to be able to carry out creative and innovative projects in real contexts and in diverse sectors (arts and culture, education and training, communication market and entertainment industries).

Teaching methodologies and assessment

After the first session of the program is presented, the students are asked to prepare a document corresponding to a methodological phase of preparation of their project for each session. In this sense, in the second session the document "Research Question" is discussed, in the third the document "Pre-proposal", in the fourth the document "Conceptual map" and in the fifth the document "Proposal of Scheduling". Students are also asked to share with everyone the document before each lesson, so that everyone can read the papers and participate in the debate. With the exception of the first, each session is divided into two parts. In the first part, students' work is discussed; The second part discusses a critical text that reflects problems related to the thought and investigation of art and the media. The evaluation is based on the set of documents (70%) and participation in the class (30%), when discussing the work.

References

AA. VV. [2010] Critical Terms for Media Studies. Ed. W.J.T. Mitchell e Mark B.N. Hansen. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2010
Agamben, Giorgio. [2005] ¿What is an Apparatus¿. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009
Bruno, Giuliana. [2014] Surface: Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014
Foss, Sonja K.; Waters, William. [2007] Destination Dissertation ¿ A Traveler¿s Guide to a Done Dissertation. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016
Groys, Boris. [2010] Going Public. New York: Sternberg Press, 2010
Kittler, Friedrich. [1986] Gramophone, Film, Typewriter. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999
Perniola, Mario. [2005] A Arte e a sua Sombra. Lisboa: Assírio e Alvim, 2006
Siegert, Bernhard. [2015] Cultural Techniques ¿ Grids, Filters, Doors and Other Articulations of the Real. New York: Fordham University Press, 2015
Zielinski, Siegfried. [2006] Deep Time of the Media. Cambridge (Mass.): The MIT Press, 2006