Art and Technology - 1st semester
Code
73217152
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências da Comunicação
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Jorge Martins Rosa, José António Gomes de Oliveira
Weekly hours
2
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To have a broad notion of how a contemporary approach to art must take into account a technological dimension, either as a medium or as the object itself;
b) To acknowledge the articulation between the technical and technological evolution and the discourses (i.e., the theoretical, esthetical, political, sociological and other contributions) that either identify in that evolution a fertile ground for artistic production or, conversely, that refuse it;
c) To identify the conditionings and limitations that each technical medium imposes to artistic practices, but also the potentialities contained in that same medium;
d) Compreender a indissociabilidade, nos objectos artísticos, entre o uso dos meios como «recurso» e uma auto-reflexão sobre o próprio meio enquanto tal.
Prerequisites
None
Subject matter
1 . Intro: From the mechanization of life to the mechanization of art. The question concerning technological art.
2 . A brief genealogy of contemporary technological art.
3 . Artistic potentialities and technological conditionings: Theoretical and practical research.
Bibliography
Benjamin, W. (1992). O Autor como Produtor. In Sobre Arte, Técnica, Linguagem e Política. Lisboa: Relógio d´Água, 137-156.
Bolter, J. D. & Grusin, R. (1999). Remediation: Understanding New Media. Cambridge (MA): The MIT Press.
Crary, J. (1989). Spectacle, Attention, Counter-Memory. October, 50, 97-107.
Hansen, M. (2006). New Philosophy for New Media. Cambridge (MA): The MIT Press.
Hayles, N. K. (2005). My Mother was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press.
Popper, F. (2007). From Technological Art to Virtual Art. Cambridge (MA): The MIT Press.
Teaching method
As a PhD seminar, and thus oriented toward the future autonomous research by the students, that will lead to a thesis, the classes are focused, in a first period, in the collective discussion of relevant texts, either proposed by the professor or by the students, and after that in a set of tasks that end up in a collective curatorship project on an annually variable theme, and in individual academic papers that support the curatorship options.
Evaluation method
The evaluation takes into account both the participation in the classes (20%), and the paper, in an earlier short version (40%) and the final extended version after reviewing (40%).