Class Seminar in Art Research

The program of this CU spans the last hundred years and relates various cultures, providing the construction of a relativistic and theoretically based analytical spirit on the various disciplines of the visual arts, also in their intersections and hybrid and procedural approaches.

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1.  1.1. In-depth notions of art and visual culture; 1.2. Critical analysis of European and American cultures in the 20th century: study of issues related to modernity and avant-garde: ephemeral action, break with tradition and hybridity; 1.3. Presentation, analysis and discussion of the notion of contemporary times and the museum crisis. 2. Visual Culture and contemporary political and aesthetic debates: 2.1. Artistic production and contemporary movements: civil rights, feminism, migrations, communitarianism and minorities, queer culture, post-colonialism and decolonialism; 2.2. Disciplines and communicational and technological hybridization. 3. Artistic production methodologies 3.1. The global communication society and the web: particularisms and aesthetic hegemonies; documentation and appropriationism; transmediality; 3.2. The theoretical and laboratory processes of individual projects: organization of information, experimentation and possibility of formalization and exhibition.

Theoretical-practical study based on the analytical and critical observation of paradigmatic works of contemporary art, accompanied by the contextualized study of circles of community, minority or peripheral artistic production in the global context; study and analysis of seminal contemporary texts by authors, theorists and artists of our time, exploring their relationship with the history of visual culture and political- social history; study of documents and documentary films about artistic production and its relationship with new media and modes of communication in the digital economy; study of the web, social networks and virtual reality as new creative platforms.

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