Art, Communication and Visual Culture

Code:

ACCV01

Acronym:

ACCV

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Fine Arts

Instance: 2024/2025 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Fine Arts Department
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Art and Design for the Public Space

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MADEP	7	Study Plan_Art and Design for the Public Space	1	-	9	72	243

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

The course aims to make crossings between the fields of action of art and design, communication and visual culture, always taking into account a critical thinking of the flows and contaminations present in contemporary art. It is also one of the aims of this unit to emphasise the operational and conceptual differences between the fields of art, design and communication. Based on the idea that there is no territory for visuality or plasticity outside of its cultural and political dimensions, the course aims to instigate interdisciplinary and critical research. Students will be encouraged to explore themes and delimit their field of research, producing written/visual essays in line with their particular research interests, also in anticipation of their final master's projects.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Learning outcomes and competences

In accordance with the objectives and methodologies presented, it is hoped that, among other things, students will be able to:
- Develop knowledge in the field of reflection on (and from) the specific problems of contemporary artistic practice.
- Develop critical and analytical tools of central aspects in the field of visual culture and cultural studies, including various fundamental texts.
- Cross-reference the skills acquired with their own practical work in the studio, using the space of this Unit as a laboratory to rehearse the development of the final master's project/dissertation.

Working method

Presencial

Program

A series of modules seeks to problematise the notions of public space, mediation and authorship, situating them in contemporary artistic practice and questioning them from a political, historical, economic, social, aesthetic or communicational point of view.

- Art and the arts. The singular plural of art. A post-medium era: retrospective and prospective visions.
- Experimentation, mediation, affect. The actual and the virtual. Art, technology and politics. Mediacracy.
- Materialisations, dematerialisations, rematerialisations. The materiality of the media. Inoperability and re-appropriation of the media. Media archaeologies.
- Context and participation. Interactivity and interpassivity.
- Museum, library, encyclopaedia. The Metabolic Museum. Institutional criticism. The institutionalisation of criticism and the domestication of artistic practice.
- Politics of representation. Places of speech.
- Perspectivism and multinaturalism. Other anthropologies.
- The emergence of public space, the idea of the city and the spheres of mediation. Public space and private space. Borders. Authorship and ownership.
- Theories of space. Other geographies, further drifts. Cartography and mapping. Heterotopia. Panoptics. Urban politics.
- Cultural Studies and Visual Culture. An expanded visuality. The life of images and their future past.
- Critical analysis of case studies.

Mandatory literature

Foster, Hal; Vision and Visuality, Bay Press, Seattle, 1988
Foster Hal; The return of the real. ISBN: 0-262-56107-7
Foster Hal 340; The anti-aesthetic. ISBN: 0-941920-01-1
Krauss Rosalind; La originalidad de la vanguardia y otros mitos modernos. ISBN: 84-206-7135-5
Crary Jonathan; Techniques of the observer. ISBN: 0-262-53107-0
Lyotard Jean-François; O pós-moderno explicado às crianças
Lyotard Jean-François; A^condição pós-moderna
Rose Gillian; Visual methodologies. ISBN: 978-1-4129-2191-6
Sturken Marita; Practices of looking. ISBN: 0-19-874271-1 36.65
Wallis Brian 340; Art after modernism. ISBN: 0-87923-632-9
Rosalind E. Krauss; A^voyage on the north sea. ISBN: 0-500-28207-2
Boris Groys; Going public. ISBN: 978-1-934105-30-6
Boris Groys; In the flow. ISBN: 978-1-78478-351-8
Achille Mbembe; Brutalismo. ISBN: 978-972-608-390-0
Julieta Aranda; The^Internet does not exist. ISBN: 978-3-956791-30-7
Miguel Leal; Uccellacci e Uccellini. ISBN: 978-989-9049-41-3
Francesco Careri; Walkscapes. ISBN: 84-252-1841-1

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures and discussion of the program topics presented.
Presentation and illustration of case studies.
Visits and field trips.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	15,00
Trabalho escrito	45,00
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	40,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	0,00
Estudo autónomo	0,00
Frequência das aulas	0,00
Trabalho de investigação	0,00
Trabalho escrito	0,00
Total:	0,00

Eligibility for exams

Lectures, presentation and open discussion of the chosen topics.
Writing a critical text according to the guidelines established in class.

Calculation formula of final grade

Classroom active Participation 15%

Presentation of reserach work 40%

Original Written Paper 45%