Art, Communication and Visual Culture

Code:

ACCV01

Acronym:

ACCV

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Fine Arts

Instance: 2023/2024 - 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	13	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 weave crosses between the operability fields of art and design, communication and visual culture, anchored in the study of contemporary critical thought from the end of the century. XX and taking into account the mutual contamination between those fields. Supported the idea that there is no territory of visuality out of the cultural and political, the course is intended as an instigator of an interdisciplinary research in understanding the contemporary culture of multifaceted and dynamic way.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Learning outcomes and competences

To develop expertise in the field of theoretical reflection on contemporary art. Promote thinking on the issues of communication in art. To produce connections between creative perspective and knowledge of perceptual processes and communication in contemporary art and design. Development of critical and analytical tools of seminal texts in the field of visual culture and cultural studies.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Through a set of modules it is intended to question the notion of public space, questioning it from the historical point of view, economic, social, aesthetic, communication.
- How the emergence ofpublic space and opinion was linked to social, linguistic and perceptive restructuring that resulted from the transition from oral to literate societies societies, speeding up this process with the invention of the press and audiovisual media.
- Through the parallel history of economics and copyright legislation is part of the public sphere character change with the advent of capitalism, which would make it a way of defending interests and private property. We wanted to understand how these concerns affect the intellectual expression.
- By historical critique several attempts to reach and impose a universal language, seeks to understand the narrative and political uses of translation, especially when uses a graphic speech.
- Seeks to understand the use space as a metaphor and narrative structure, as well as new geographies and theories of space (Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, Edward Soja)
- Addresses the basic issues of so-called Cultural Studies and Visual Culture as well as the question of representation and the Post-feminism to contemporary cultural discourse.
- By understanding the importance of Postmodern be traced a vision Critics regarded as crucial in contemporary times.

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

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures and discussion of the topics presented.

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

Presentation classes and discussion of the themes presented.
Critical text in accordance with communicated rules.

Calculation formula of final grade

Debate of Mandatory Bibliography and Classroom Participation 15%

Presentation of reserach work40%

Original Written Paper 45%