Digital Aesthetics

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

ULP1962-11043

Recommended complementary curricular units

n/a

Mode of study

Face-to-face

Precedences

Não

Professional Internship

Não

Syllabus

I. The aesthetic temporalities. a) The History of Art and its discursiveness. b) Thematicising the crisis of the History of Art: from Aby Warburg to Didi-Huberman. c) The problem of aesthetic temporality. II. The speech of Aesthetics. a) Negativity in aesthetic discourse. b) Aesthetics: intransitive discourse of Modernity. c) Aesthetics: dysphoric discourse of Modernity. III. The provenance of the aesthetic problem of the virtual. a) Conceptualization of the virtual. b) The virtual as a technical device. c) The virtual as an aesthetic device. d) Aesthetic hybridization. IV. The techniques of the image and its metaphysical problem. a) Merleau-Ponty and the works of the visible. b) Technique of the eye to technical weltanschauung. c) The visible and the invisible. V. Digital and analog: an aesthetic debate? a) Origin and World: analogical concepts? b) Theoretical problems of digitization. c) The digital body: an aesthetization short of the subject.

Objectives

The present UC aims to establish a critical confrontation between the history of aesthetic reflection in modernity and the current plan of aesthetic investment of digital technical devices. The essential purpose of the chair will, however, be a propaedeutic to the contemporary aesthetic debate and its complex relationship with Aesthetics and Art History.

Knowledge, abilities and skills to be acquired

In this UC, students will acquire an advanced knowledge of the diachronies of aesthetic thinking in Western Culture, making contact with the decisive moments of the discourse on art and its hermeneutics.

Teaching methodologies and assessment

The methodology followed in this course will be that of the master class, where the teacher presents the argumentation around a problem. Necessarily that a course of this nature will have to go through the interpretive reading and the argumentative dialogue between the teacher and the students and between the students between them, accompanied by the teacher. The final evaluation of the discipline is done through an essay where the student exposes a topic and discusses it thematically. The essay must have a minimum length of 7000 words, constituting the final evaluation.

References

DIDI-HUBERMAN (1990), Devant l¿Image, Paris, Seuil.
HEGEL, G.F.W. (1835¿1838), Vorlesungen über die Ästhetik. Frankfurt a.M., Suhrkamp
KANT, Immanuel (1790), Crítica da Faculdade do Juízo, Lisboa, INCM.
MERLEAU-PONTY (1945), Phénoménologie de la Perception, Paris, Gallimard, 1996.
WARBURG, Aby (1928), Mnemosyne. Grundbegriffe I, London, Warburg Institute Archiv
CUBITT, Sean (1998), Digital Aesthetics. London, Sage