The “Arte e Tecnologia” course unit aims to map the space between art and technique with a scope in contemporary culture. Culture mapping inside a critical discussion around technology in the context of contemporary artistic practices. Different methodologies will be taken, considering the variable articulations of contemporary art practice with technologies, philosophy and speculative theories. This course will reinvent further approaches to artistic practice articulations, in order to find some answers (experiments).

The aim of these seminars is to find drawing discussion and practice platforms as a functional form that describes and sets up the condictions for pratctice based in the different applications of the mechanisms of heterogeneous sets of drawing visual manifestations and fields of intervention. These platforms consist of the identification and analysis of structural, cognitive and communicative components of the drawing associated with certain values ​​of use, whether in the field of meta-language - as a critical setback on the conditions of their own production (their processes) - is in intraligação with other aspects of human activity: the fields of research and science communication, archeology, the various main planning practices (architecture, design), the various "artistic" events (illustration, cartoon), etc..

Thought and Practice of Contemporary Art is a theoretical course that gives prominence to the debates related to contemporary art. Its aim is to generate new reflective possibilities on the recent visual culture and more specifically to the on going artistic practices. This course also expects to encourage students to analyze in detail critical global concepts such as postmodernism, post-conceptual and techno-culture. Classes will be interspersed between lectures, group debates, visits to exhibitions and discussions of the theoretical research of the students enrolled.

Objectives:
- To create a space for reflection on the nature, actions and the implications of different procedural drawing and printmaking tools, in particular on the techniques, processes, tools, media and technological means;
Developing the theoretical and practical knowledge and vocabulary specific to drawing based on the historical evolution of its means and techniques;
To develop practical work and a critical discourse by being aware on the role of the tools used; Supporting the workshop and studio space in the consolidation of learning in strategic technology areas for the development of artistic practice, and towards its expansion;
To know and test in a directed and systematic selection of a technological components or stages of work of the practice of drawing in order to establish their fundamentals and replicable methodologies to inform in more complex contexts;
Work and expand the creative and experimental aspects which assist in the production of drawing and printmaking punctually, through the initiation to technology projects of short duration, conducted by a route based on methodological and historical review and update their practice learning outcomes;
To circumscribe technological learning by attending demonstrations on techniques and procedures related complementary to initial training, described in final report; The application in the production of a portfolio images which demonstrate the mastery of the methods introduced and agreement of them with a personal investigation; Development of an individual project consistent with the objectives and appropriate means to these ends, monitored and guided by the teachers responsible for the course; Developing skills to work independently or in collaboration in order to continue the practice of producing and editing after the training period; Acquiring and developing the skills and expertise, references to the conceptual drawing work and editing author; Identifying, developing and consolidating knowledge about the techniques and processes of drawing most appropriate for the work in progress; Learning how to maximize the use of available equipment and time in the workshops, participating actively in the environment of sharing and interdependence as well as the definition of patterns of interaction with more specific area of drawing; Developing editing and printing skills, presentation and time management, resources and equipment workshops for the implementation of the project personal or collective

1. To provide a basic understanding of the scientific procedure and fundamental dimensions of the research process in the Fine Arts;

2. To familiarize students with concepts, core problems, fundamental theories and practices inherent in the research process and the logic of empirical research;

3. To enable the student to develop research practices based on the identification of an idea and formulation of a problem, in a logical fashion.

4. To promote the development of an ethical and critical awareness of the scientific research on the arts.

Painting Seminars is a course that promotes the discipline as an artistic expression in its most varied manifestations. As an art practice, painting is much more than just a physical activity, it is a long-term critical commitment to ideas and sensibilities. This course will be committed to help students deepen their vision, it will support the wide diversity of formal and conceptual approaches, styles and interests. The course will also encourage critical dialogue, in the form of debates, visits to exhibitions and artists studios and through the contribution of guest artists.

The global objective of this unit is to contribute to broader discussions on contemporary artistic practices and their crossings with other areas. These discussions will take place with a number of guest artists invited to present their work into the class room.

• To value the experimental methodologies and group discussions.
• To encourage the intersection with the work developed in other curricular areas or even in other contexts.
• To develop analytical tools, individually and in group.

To explore the creative potentialities of transferences of actions between drawing and other performance fields.

To develop experimental and critical skills to analyze creative processes motivated by the used of drawing in performance contexts.

To identify the features and strategies that foster the emergence of drawing as a performative act in contemporary art, as well as the understanding of the performative act as drawing.

To support a more coherent and self-critic practice-based research that explores drawing in its performative dimension.

Help to optimize the skills of drawing at different stages of formalization of a practical problem (project)

Promoting experimentation and organization of ideas, concepts and practices through operational drawing strategies;

Contribute to the experience and suitability of drawing tools that strengthen the development of projective and / or procedural methodologies;

Help form images and suitable concepts that support the development and formalization of the project.

Promote attitudes of active participation and encourage cooperation among students - respective academic aspects and professional practices - and between them and the different curricular units.

Promote reflection and critical thinking in the project.

As its goal, the class aims at supplementing the already elected, practiced and tested set of studio techniques with one other technique (or eventually others), whose knowledge the student is interested in advancing.

Developing specific knowledge and apply it to a particular content.

To distinguish, select and make use of multiple media and modes of representation of the various technologies

To promote a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspective of new technological experimentation and opportunities on the students projects, always related to contemporary practices

To strengthen the knowledge on the technology, or technologies, involved on the projects developed, always promoting a contemporary approach.

Systematize and frame the specific terminology vocabulary of drawing. Problematize the various concepts and implications of thought, action and result of drawing. Provide an approach to the history of drawing, in particular its moments of rupture. Develop the specificity of a drawing visual culture.

To problematize the relations between verbal and nonverbal, between text and image, highlighting has working material the writings and the speech of the artists.
To develop tools of analysis and interpretation of the writings of artists, especially of contemporary artists..
Experimenting and rehearsing the written production in parallel / intersection with the studio work, anticipating the completion of the final master's project.

. Promover e consolidar a criação e produção autónomas, através da reflexão e experimentação contextualizadas no sentido do aprofundamento das competências necessárias ao desenvolvimento dos projetos de investigação em Escultura;

. Estimular o envolvimento dos mestrandos na articulação entre a concepção, indagação e concretização plástica, diligenciando para que referidos projetos sejam devidamente articulados com metodologias que os favoreçam;

. Incentivar ações individuais e em equipa promovendo a partilha de conhecimentos e o espírito de equipa;

. Fomentar o exercício da práxis artística, autónoma e comunicante preferencialmente em função de uma experiência prática, que se pretende consequente, rigorosa, e competente, favorecendo o estudo dos fenómenos relativos às práticas artísticas em articulação e diálogo com as restantes Unidades Curriculares; 

Estúdio de Escultura organiza-se e centraliza a sua ação no sentido da coordenação e apoio ao desenvolvimento e consolidação do projeto/ plano individual dos estudantes. Concentrado no modelo TP de orientação individualizada, promove igualmente diversas dinâmicas através de aulas de exposição temáticas, debates em grupo, residências e/ou workshops, aulas com convidados, para além da análise e estudo de casos concretos e/ou núcleos temáticos, fomentando-se igualmente a articulação com as outras Unidades Curriculares.

OBJECTIVOS:
1. Consolidação de uma prática artística ou investigadora fundamentada nos territórios do desenho e das suas zonas limítrofes na cultura contemporânea.
2. A criação do contexto de experimentação: relações entre a prática de estúdio e o contexto cultural e social em que se desenvolve.
3. Desenvolvimento de uma reflexão rigorosa, crítica e contextualizada das preocupações inerentes ao projecto artístico/de investigação.
4. Introduzir/aprofundar capacidades técnicas e processuais relacionadas com os procedimentos do desenho e da impressão, ampliando as possibilidades instrumentais de cada estudante.
5. Desenvolver metodologias de investigação baseadas em práticas experimentais, cujos resultados se comunicam na sua dimensão de imagens/objectos.