Moving Image

Code:

IM01

Acronym:

IM

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Fine Arts

Instance: 2024/2025 - 1S

Active?	Yes
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	18	Plano de estudos de LAP_publicaçao em DR de 24/05/2021	3	-	6	60	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

 Moving Image is a curricular unit that develops and problematises videographic and film production in the context of artistic practice.
Through the implicit theoretical-practical link, the main aim of this unit is to deepen and experiment with technologies in the context of artistic projects, in the reflexive domain of the individual, collective and presentation production tools themselves.
The aim will be to follow and critically stimulate the different stages in the realisation of a project so that they are consequential in the results achieved, as well as enabling technical and conceptual autonomy concerning the media used.

Learning outcomes and competences

- Application of technical and conceptual skills in the field of audiovisual technologies in the context of contemporary artistic practices;

- Improvement of the different stages of realisation of a videographic / film project in the context of artistic practice;

- Mastery of the specific languages used in the context of contemporary artistic production, with a special focus on the moving image area;

- Prepare the presentation of a collective project as a space for the installation and reception of the moving image;

- Preparing a digital channel involved in the layout of a specific project and related to the contents realised and researched in the semester.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Moving Image program will be developed between practical exercises connected with an ongoing collective project:

1. Narratives: Attending the collective questions and concerns of the students about video and film practices, will develop a double exercise that activates dialectic components inside image processing: Shot/Countershot/offscreen; horizontal structure/vert linear narratives/ non-linear narratives; Continuity and discontinuity in action, space, and time. 

2. Synchronous: Development of practice contents and films taking into account the relations between the producing of images and the producing of sound. Experimental relations of synchrony and asynchronous, as well, as the effective materiality between the audio and the visual will be presented and tested: sync point and synchresis. 

3. Transmissions (collective project): The last topic of the program will develop the presentation of the works inside a collective structure and thinking, considering the technological and material concerns and specificity of moving image space.

The program is referenced based on contemporary artistic practice, understanding and questioning the (ultra) presence of moving images in artistic practice today.  

Mandatory literature

Alexandre Estrela; Alexandre Estrela. ISBN: 978-972-739-292-6
Carvajal Rina 340; Tacita Dean. ISBN: 978-88-8158-663-0
Celina Brás; Contemporânea. ISBN: 2184-1861
Chion Michel; L. audio-vision. ISBN: 2-09-190704-9
Flores, Lívia; "Cinema sem filme é isso", Arte e Ensaio (revista do paga/eba/ufrj n.29, 2015
Gilles Deleuze; A^imagem-movimento. ISBN: 972-37-0958-9 20.00
Julienne Lorz; Joan Jonas. ISBN: 978-3-7774-2979-3
Mekas, Jonas; "The Walden Book", Re:Voir Vidéo / Éditions Paris Expérimental, 2009
Obrist Hans Ulrich; Tacita Dean. ISBN: 978-3-86335-262-2
Pedro Paiva; João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva. ISBN: 978-886-749-522-1
Rieser Martin 340; New screen media. ISBN: 0-85170-864-1 50.25
Stafford Barbara Maria; Devices of wonder. ISBN: 0-89236-590-0
Antje Ehmann; Harun Farocki. ISBN: 978-3-86560-587-0

Comments from the literature

The above list is introductory and research-based. Each component of the programme will be based on a bibliography and specific reference practices.

A digital page is successively updated with the materials not only biographical but also artistic of obligatory appreciation.

Complementary materials will be appropriate to the development of the projects and mentioned in class.

Teaching methods and learning activities

- Intense and regular practice, providing the constant creation of new situations and problems.

- Presentation of proposals and exercises for the realisation of the project.

- Individualised monitoring of working projects and presentations of the evaluation stages.

- Theoretical-practical classes using audiovisual media, texts and others. Autonomous reading and discussion of the bibliography recommended for these classes.

- Reasoned analysis of the contemporary artistic context in the specific area of the moving image.

- Development of a shared digital editing platform that builds and presents the UC materials, but also the research.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	10,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	60,00
Trabalho laboratorial	30,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Frequência das aulas	100,00
Trabalho laboratorial	50,00
Estudo autónomo	12,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Calculation formula of final grade

1. Narratives:  30%

2. Synchronous:  30%

3. Transmissions: 40% 

In addition to the quality of the projects developed throughout the semester, in its different stages, the following factors will be valued, without prejudice to the other aspects contemplated in the programme: a) Attendance. b) Participation in discussions and other teaching activities. c) Compliance with the deadlines established in the class calendar.