STUDY PROGRAMME
Media Design and Multimedia Arts

AFAM CODE
ABST46

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Aesthetics

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
Phenomenology of the image

CREDITS
6

APPROACH
Theoretical

This course covers practices, languages, models and devices to represent the contemporary artistic scene, presenting a range of ideas, theoretical positions and narrative compositions (political, social and genre) that take into consideration the times and ways art is produced and consumed in the global cultural world.

The programme consists of one single module, which grants 6 credits.

Successful students will be able to:

• Orientate among the presented themes and study-cases, acquire familiarity with the best-known authors, spaces and production structures, both institutional and non-official, involved in the contemporary artistic system

• Enhance their iconographic analysis level by developing an interdisciplinary approach, the comparison among sources, analytical tools and historical-critical interpretations

• Visual analysis and its aesthetic paradigms will be analysed as the main mean to understand the contemporary world, its social composition and its narrative

• Processes of the artistic work and their oblique signs

• Non-linear timelines interweaving the work (past-present)

• Some of the polarities that allow to decipher today’s art narrations: centre/periphery; masculine/feminine; domination/subordination; hegemony/subservience

• Relation between militant graphics and performance of movements

The programme focuses on theoretical courses.

Students will take part in the following activities, which may vary depending on the different topics:

• Classroom lectures

• Debates, presentations, peer assessment

• Use of tutorials, videos or other media tools

• Exercises and revisions

• Individual study and research

Assessment tools may include:

• Oral exam

• Graded practice

Further details about the exams will be provided by the professors.

• Belting, H. (2014) An Anthropology of Images: Picture, Medium, Body, Princeton University Press.

Many of the recommended sources, together with additional material, are also available online on MyNaba, in the Library section.

Books and resources might be requested or suggested by the professors.