Art and Technology

Code:

AT211

Acronym:

AT

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Fine Arts/Multimedia

Instance: 2014/2015 - 2S (of 16-02-2015 to 17-07-2015)

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	http://art.blog.virose.pt
Responsible unit:	Fine Arts Department
Course/CS Responsible:	Fine Arts

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
AP	38	Official Study Plan 2011	2	-	3	34	81

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

To study the relations between art, culture and technology, in particular its implications for artistic practice.
To understand the question of technology from its modern problematization..
To discuss and clarify the importance of the relations between art and technology to the current context of art.
To introduce the basic principles of a media theory.
To develop tools for reflection and critical analysis.
To establish a critical connection to the work done in other subjects, such as studio practice and workshops.

Learning outcomes and competences

It is expected students to achieve the objectives pursued in accordance with the program.

Working method

Presencial

Program

The program is divided into two parts. A first and comprehensive introduction to the problems of the historical relations between art and technology, with particular emphasis on modernity; and a second in which it is intended to bring the discussion to the present through a set of topics of analysis, focusing on the question of media, and also on some case studies that require a retrospective look at the history of cinema, which some considered the modern machine par excellence and is today an excellent example of the mediation crisis.


I. Art and Technology: An Introduction.

a. The question of technique.
- Art and technique. Techné.
- The muses. Mechanical arts and liberal arts.
- The art and the arts. The singular plural of art.
- Fascination and disenchantment of art.
- Reality, simulation.
- Machinery, automation, machinics.
- Mediation, information, communication.

b. On modernity.
- The genesis of the modern observer.
- The machinery of the body.
- Subjugation and subjectivity.
- Discipline and freedom.
- Attention and distraction.
- Performance and Cultural Industries.

II. Current perspectives on art, culture and technology.

c. Mediation.
- From media theory to information theory.
- The control.
- The shadow of the media. The accident.
- The digital. The network culture.
- The actual and the virtual.
- The intensification of time. Speed ​​and inertia.
- The kinematics.
- New and old media. Obsolescence.
- Media Archaeologies.
- Variability and remediation.
- Mediacracy.
- Interactivity / interpassivity.
- Inactivity and reappropriation media.
- Other mediations, other medium.

d. Case studies to be studied in relation to contemporary art and culture.

Mandatory literature

Agamben Giorgio; What is an apparatus?. ISBN: 978-0-8047-6230-4
Benjamin Walter; Sobre arte, técnica, linguagem e política. ISBN: 972-708-1770
Bolter Jay David; Remediation. ISBN: 0-262-52279-9
Deleuze Gilles; Pourparlers. ISBN: 2-7073-1842-6 10.00
Deleuze Gilles; Dialogues. ISBN: 2-08-211701-4
Perniola Mario; Do sentir. ISBN: 972-23-1690-7
Kittler Friedrich A.; Gramaphone, film, typewriter. ISBN: 0-8047-3233-7
Crary Jonathan; Techniques of the observer. ISBN: 0-262-53107-0
Crary Jonathan 340; Incorporations. ISBN: 0-942299-29-9
Crary Jonathan; Suspensions of perception. ISBN: 0-262-53199-2
Heidegger Martin; The^question concerning technology. ISBN: 0-06-131969-4
Manovich Lev; The^language of new media. ISBN: 0-262-63255-1
McLuhan Marshall; Understanding media. ISBN: 0-262-63159-8
McLuhan Marshall; The medium is the massage
Quéau Philippe; Le^virtuel. ISBN: 2-87673-162-2
Stocker Gerfried 340; Code. ISBN: 3-7757-1356-5 32.10
Nancy Jean-Luc; Les^Muses. ISBN: 2-7186-0574-X 28.63
Mannoni Laurent; Le grand art de la lumière et de l.ombre. ISBN: 2-09-190-077-X
Mulder Arjen; Understanding media theory. ISBN: 90-5662-388-5 28.10
Gere Charlie; Digital culture. ISBN: 1-86189-143-1 24.00
Bolter Jay David; Remediation. ISBN: 0-262-52279-9

Complementary Bibliography

Perniola Mario; El^sex appeal de lo inorgánico. ISBN: 84-89239-07-X 17.48
Miranda José A. Bragança de; Crítica das ligações na era da técnica. ISBN: 972-95651-8-X
Virilio Paul; A^velocidade de libertação. ISBN: 972-708-377-3
Virilio Paul; Esthétique de la disparition. ISBN: 2-7186-0360-7 26.39
Critical Art Ensemble; Electronic civil and other disobedience unpopular ideas
Wilson Stephen; Information arts. ISBN: 0-262-73158-4 36.69
Cruz Maria Teresa 340; Interactividades. ISBN: 972-97296-0-3
Krauss Rosalind; A voyage on the north sea. ISBN: 0-500-28207-2
Parkinson David; History of film. ISBN: 0-500-20277-X
Virilio Paul 1932-; War and cinema. ISBN: 0-86091-928-5
Quéau Philippe; Le^virtuel. ISBN: 2-87673-162-2
Perniola Mario; Do sentir. ISBN: 972-23-1690-7
Perniola Mario; Do sentir. ISBN: 972-23-1690-7

Teaching methods and learning activities

Classes are organized preferably as a seminar, which means the choice of a participatory model. On the one hand, around the review and discussion of texts and audiovisual material; on the other, in classes where the fundamental questions of the program will be presented. In both situations, the methodology shall be governed by a broad illustration of the proposed topics.
Both situations will be interspersed and complementary. The first aim to clarify key concepts and practices for the subject and its contextualization. The second aims developing practical analysis and commentary of the selected examples and case studies.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	10,00
Teste	90,00
Total:	100,00

Eligibility for exams

Attendance ≥ 75%
Compliance with all other deliveries and performances, according to the schedule presented at the beginning of the semester.

Calculation formula of final grade

Written test - 90%
Participation, attendance - 10%