Class Contemporary Art

It is increasingly difficult to talk about "art" in the singular, because it has been disappearing its specificity as a means as well as the boundaries which separated the artistic object from other objects. Speaking of the 'arts' in the plural correspond to recognize that in contemporary times, the arts have escaped  the categories and codes that delimited them, while they spread throughout the whole experience. The reasons for this are multiple, including technological and cultural order. The apprehension of this phenomenon goes, first, by understanding the place of art in modern times and its subsequent trajectories, since modernism and the avant-garde until the so-called as post-avant-garde. Second, you  need to map the main forms of contemporary art, with particular attention to how broke through to and / or expanded their historical contex.

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1. Introduction: the plurality of contemporary arts as a problem The notion of Contemporary and the priority of the «Actual» The hypothesis of the end of art: the crisis of mimesis and the linear perspective of History   2. Objects Duchamp's rupture: the creative act, the ready-made and the the infra-mince Collecting, appropriation, the archive and the post-production culture   3. Body Fluxus, body art, happenings and performances The biologization of the arts   4. Space The Installation as a new art space From land-art to network arts   5. Machines Cyber Arts: control, interactivity and intelligent environments From new media art to software as avant-garde: case studies of net.art and glitch art   6. Ecology The Earth as an object and the aesthetics of systems Materialities, atmospheres and climatologies in the Anthropocene era Archaeologies of the future and post-human perspectives on art

Carrying out study visits to galleries or museums. Invitations to artists from the contemporary arts scene.

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