Artistic Expression and Multimedia

Recommended Prerequisites

Video, image and audio editing.
Previous attendance to the subject Modelação & Animação is a prerequesite.

Teaching Methods

All projects will be backed with screenings and analysis of diferent works from diferent movements and periods.The three projects will focus on experimental aproaches to video Ilustration of audio tracks,audio editing “sound sequences” with consequent moving image,and type in motion. These “classical” exercises are common in diferent movements throughout the 20th century and more recently,providing a stage for a pletora of diferent found solutions and technologies.The works are open for the class to discuss at several stages/deadline.The works will be supervised at every stage by the teacher.

Learning Outcomes

Aquisition of visual culture related to the practice of multimedia artwork.
The analisys of examples from recent history, and contemporary works will motivate the student to develop three time-based works/exercises with particular atention to the relations between image, sound and typography in motion.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

-silent movies/sound movies
-experimental cinema
-visual music
-video art
-music video
-concrete and visual poetry
.kinectic type
-motion graphics

Head Lecturer(s)

Mauro Costa Couceiro

Assessment Methods

Assessement
Three projects (30%, 30%, 40%): 100.0%

Bibliography

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-BENJAMIN, Walter. Magia e Técnica, Arte e Política. São Paulo: Editora Brasiliense. 1986.

-CHION, Michel. Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen. New York: Columbia University Press. 1994

-CRARY, Jonathan. Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture. New York: October Books. 2001.-EMMER, Michele. The Visual Mind II. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 2005.

-WHITNEY, John. Digital Harmony - On the Complementarity of Music and Visual Art. Peterborough, N.H: Byte Books/McGraw-Hill. 1980.

-YOUNGBLOOD, Gene. Expanded Cinema. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. 1971.