Contemporary Images
Code
722011056
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências da Comunicação
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Maria Margarida Godinho
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
This curricular unit is structured with the aim of promoting the knowledge and criticism of the way different artistic practices use lens-based image (photography, film, video), in a multidisciplinary perspective and in the cultural approach with non-artistic forms of using images. The objectives of the seminar are:
a) To learn different modes of appropriation of the lens-based image in an artistic context and connected with the annual theme of the seminar;
b) Constructing specific approaches of specific works;
c) Merging within theoretical criticism on the ontology of image in a comparative perspective (photography, cinema, video), with a specialized bibliography;
c) Developing critical competences of the lens-based image;
d) Using adequate conceptualization on approaching each subject;
e) Constructing a critical vision about some of the contemporary artworks which use lens-based image.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
This seminar is structured in three parts. The first takes 8 sessions and is focused in the analysis of critical texts and on the ontology of the lens-based image (photography, cinema, video). All along with the discussion of theoretical texts upon photography, film and video, and the way contemporary artists integrate them in their works, the discussion upon the
documental status of the image will be the main core of the seminar. The second takes 2-3 sessions and will bring two contemporary artists to make a sort of master class, presenting and discussing their artwork with students. The third and last one will take 3-4 sessions and is dedicated to the oral presentation of the final work of the students, which will take also the form a written paper.
Students must choose a corpus of artwork of an author or a group of authors (a movement) to work in a critical perspective.
They must present their paper in an oral presentation of 15-20 minutes.
Bibliography
FRIED, Michael (2008) Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before. Londres e Yale: Yale University Press.
DOANE, Mary Ann (2002) The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive. Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press
MULVEY, Laura (2006) Death 24x a Second - Stillness and the moving Image. Londres: Reaktion Books.
MEDEIROS, Margarida (2008) (org) Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, vol 39, Fotografia(s);
TAGG, John (2009) The Disciplinary Frame. Photographics Truths and the Capture of Meaning. Londres e Minnesota, Minnesota University Press.
Teaching method
The methodology consists in the analysis and critical approach of the fundamental texts, as well as the analysis of corpus of images and the discussion with the invited artists. The
Evaluation method
Evaluation consists on:
1. Assiduity to the seminar (10%);
2. Oral presentation of the paper (40%);
3. A paper about 4000 words (50%).