IPLUSO 26049

Seminar in Art Research

• ApresentaçãoPresentation

  Curricular unit dedicated to developing critical reflection skills on contemporary art.
• ProgramaProgramme

  1. 1.1. In-depth notions of art and visual culture; 1.2. Critical analysis of European and American cultures in the 20th century: study of issues related to modernity and avant-garde: ephemeral action, break with tradition and hybridity; 1.3. Presentation, analysis and discussion of the notion of contemporary times and the museum crisis. 2. Visual Culture and contemporary political and aesthetic debates: 2.1. Artistic production and contemporary movements: civil rights, feminism, migrations, communitarianism and minorities, queer culture, post-colonialism and decolonialism; 2.2. Disciplines and communicational and technological hybridization. 3. Artistic production methodologies 3.1. The global communication society and the web: particularisms and aesthetic hegemonies; documentation and appropriationism; transmediality; 3.2. The theoretical and laboratory processes of individual projects: organization of information, experimentation and possibility of formalization and exhibition.
• ObjectivosObjectives

  Each topic is studied with the program support the observation of art and cultural objects (texts, films, ...) in the classroom and in the exercise of drafting critics. The aim of the course focuses on the skills of reflection on the contemporary art, good observation and interpretation of cultural elements produced by different social worlds, deepening the relationship with the arts in various domains and multiple instances of communication.
• BibliografiaBibliography

  Alpers, Svetlana. ; “The Museum as a Way of Seeing” in Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display. Ivan Karp & Steven D.Lavine (eds.). , London: Smithsonian Institution Press. , 1999 (25-32.) Berman, Marshall; “Modernidade Ontem, Hoje e Amanhã” in Tudo o que é Sólido Dissolve-se no Ar. A Aventura da Modernidade., Lisboa: Edições 70., 1982 ( 15-40) Youngblood, Eugene; “The Artist as Ecologist” in Expanded Cinema, , 1970 (345-351.)
• MetodologiaMethodology

  Theoretical-practical study based on the analytical and critical observation of paradigmatic works of contemporary art, accompanied by the contextualized study of circles of community, minority or peripheral artistic production in the global context; study and analysis of seminal contemporary texts by authors, theorists and artists of our time, exploring their relationship with the history of visual culture and politicalsocial history; study of documents and documentary films about artistic production and its relationship with new media and modes of communication in the digital economy; study of the web, social networks and virtual reality as new creative platforms.
• LínguaLanguage

  Português
• TipoType

  Semestral
• ECTS

  10
• NaturezaNature

  Mandatory
• EstágioInternship

  Não