STUDY PROGRAMME
Visual arts and Curatorial studies

AFAM CODE
ABAV5

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Painting

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
Visual arts

CREDITS
12

APPROACH
Theoretical/project based

This course reflects on an essential moment of the artist's and curator's activity: the production of artistic work that will be part of a critical and expository context, the implications of its "being public". The students deepen their individual research path, confronting their work with a broad range of experimental practices and different cultural contexts. Collaborative projects through various media are also encouraged, including paint-

ing, photography, sculpture, engraving, video, performance, installation and digital media. Great attention is paid to providing the students with critical attitude towards the presentation, exhibition and communication of their artistic work, which can no longer ignore the complexity of the art system on a global scale.

This teaching is made of a single module of 12 CFA credits:

• VISUAL ARTS 1: 9 CFA

• CURATORIAL STUDIES: 3 CFA

Successful students will be able to:

VISUAL ARTS 1:

• Create a contemporary work of art in an international professional context

• Acquire thorough and comprehensive knowledge of materials and technologies that are used in contemporary visual arts

• Devise a communication plan and all the critical system that surround the creation of the artwork

• Publicly exhibit their work

CURATORIAL STUDIES 1:

• For the learning goals of this module, see course information for Curatorial Studies 1

PRODUCT DESIGN 1:

• Observing is designing

• One thing leads to another

• The aesthetics of ethics

• Designing methods

• "Subjectivity" in designing

• The "design" thinking

INTERIOR DESIGN 1:

• Reading and understanding space

• Interpreting briefs and building up ideas

• Relation between form and function

• Organizing paths within a given space

• Dimensioning rooms and furniture

• Materials, colours and light: the sensorial dimension of space

DESIGN SYSTEM 1:

• Types of design

• People at the centre of projects

• Languages of design, from its origins to today

• Languages of contemporary design

This is a theoretical/project based course.

Over the course, the students will carry out didactic activities that are functional to achieving the learning goals, that in both modules may include:

• Classroom lectures

• Exercises and revisions

• Field trips

• Development of individual projects

• Individual study and research

• Use of tutorials, videos or other media tools for detailed study

Assessment is based on the overall competence of the students and may include:

• Oral exam

• Written exam

• Submission of papers, projects or research work

Further details on specific tests can be provided by the professor during the course. Assessment criteria include commitment, active participation and personal growth of the students during the course.

• O'Doherty, B. (2000), Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Further bibliographic recommendations may be provided by the professors during the course. A lot of the referenced material, together with other in-depth study material, can be consulted online in MyNaba, in the Library section.