History and Theory of Image

Code:

HTI104

Acronym:

HTI

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Design

Instance: 2023/2024 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	http://esquerdadireitaesquerda.wordpress.com
Responsible unit:	Design
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Image Design

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MDI	24	Plano de Estudos do MDI_Publicação em DR de 03/11/2016	1	-	6	45	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

This UC intends to analyze and recover relevant historical principles around the History of Image, making this formation converge with the practice of image production in the contemporary context, namely for:

1. Analyze the space of representation and the meaning of essential projects in the history of images;

2. Understand the recontextualization and appropriation of images, in the field of visual arts and design, and analyze the way they enhance new readings;

3. Encourage knowledge and the recovery of visual practices that face their disappearance;

4. Interpret and relate images as a legitimate trace of a historical-social construction.

Learning outcomes and competences

The learning result translates into a set of knowledge, skills and methodological and critical skills that students can use in professional and artistic practice.

Working method

Presencial

Program

The presence of the media, namely audiovisual, in contemporary society, implies a permanent contact with the most diverse types of image. Through cinema, television, the internet, video games or mobile phones, we receive a huge flow of images that we consume, often indiscriminately. This complex visuality implies a new type of visual literacy, which provides a more competent and informed look at the reality that surrounds us. In the discipline of history and image theory, it is intended, based on a diverse set of visual stimuli, to promote a broad and interdisciplinary reflection on the way images are created and read in contemporary times.

1. What is an image? Archives and Swamps
2. The thought in images.
3. Technical images: manufacture of visible objects.
4. Archetypes, folds and androgeny of images
5. Literary images: about memory, writing and figuration
6. Fake images: pictures, replica and copies.
7. Appropriation and form: editorial camouflage.

Mandatory literature

John Berger; Modos de ver. ISBN: 84-252-2003-3
Georges Didi-Huberman; Diante do tempo. ISBN: 978-989-8327-81-9
Georges Didi-Huberman; Atlas
Barbara Maria Stafford; Devices of wonder. ISBN: 0-89236-590-0
Hans Belting; Antropologia da imagem. ISBN: 978-989-97684-5-1
Roland Barthes; O óbvio e o obtuso
W. J. Thomas Mitchell; Picture theory. ISBN: 0-226-53232-1
James Elkins; Visual studies. ISBN: 0-415-96681-7 32.05

Teaching methods and learning activities

Throughout the semester will be used various methods of teaching - expository, interrogative, demonstrative and active - in order to enable better acquisition of diverse content.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Prova oral	30,00
Trabalho escrito	70,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	3,00
Frequência das aulas	39,00
Trabalho de investigação	3,00
Total:	45,00

Eligibility for exams

The evaluation is continuous and carried out based on the assessment of a work proposal (critical essay) and its respective oral presentation. To weight the value to be attributed at each of these moments, the following factors are considered:
1. Acquisition, articulation and application of concepts.
2. Scientific curiosity.
3. Use of an appropriate conceptual language.
4. Compliance with deadlines for the submission of proposals.
5. Attendance.

Calculation formula of final grade

Oral communication — 30%
Critical essay (2000 words) — 70%