Photography, Cinema and Video: Cross-Disciplinary Practices

Recommended Prerequisites

Photography and Composition from Design and Multimedia Course, on FCTUC, or similar curricular units from other courses in which Visual Contemporary Cultural is relevant.

Teaching Methods

Each class has a theory four hours period and another two hours practice. In this period students will be presenting their projects and works. There will a group discussion as well as an analysis by the teacher. The progress of practical projects will be tracked in class and through email.

Evaluation consists of two practical projects (75%) and one theoretical test (25%).

Learning Outcomes

This subject aims to allow students to know Cross-Disciplinary Practices on Photography, Cinema and Video. It will be shown a wide range of cinema and video works influenced by photography, but also experimental short films and animations that deal with the fact that video is a seen as a technology and a way of expression. Students will experience the transformation of the gallery trough video-installation apparatus.

An important goal is to stimulate students to be involved in developing personal projects, on photography and video, articulating theory with practice.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1 - The expansion of Photography in visual arts: from the 70´s to nowadays;

2 - Photography and Cinema: conceptual transits ((Larry Clark, Robert Frank…)

3 - Cinema and Visual Arts: contaminations(Matthew Barney, Pedro Costa…) ;

4 - Experimental Cinema ( Short Movies from Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Shirin Neshat...)

5 - Visual Arts and Video: singularity and autonomy (Bill Viola, Sam Taylor Wood, Pierre Huyghe…)

6 - Video and Document: films on artists.

7 - A panoramic view of Portuguese Contemporary Video-Art.

Head Lecturer(s)

José Augusto Maçãs da Silva Carvalho

Assessment Methods

Assessement
Test: 25%; Project:75% (Two video works): 100.0%

Bibliography

Barthes, R.- A Câmara Clara, Ed. 70, Lisboa, 1981.

Benjamin, Walter. Sobre Arte, Técnica, Linguagem e Política. Relógio d'Água, Lisboa, 1992.

Krauss, Rosalind E., A voyage on the North Sea: art in the age of the post-mediumcondition, New York, Thames & Hudson, 2000

Kember, S.- Virtual anxiety: photography, new technologies and subjectivity, Manchester

University Press, Manchester, 1998.

Hansen, Mark B. N., New philosophy for new media, Cambridge, Mass. - London, the MIT Press, 2004

Levin, Thomas Y., Frohne Ursula, Weibel Peter, CTRL [SPACE]: rhetorics of surveillance from

Bentham to Big Brother, Karlsruhe, ZKM, Center for Art and Media Cambridge, Mass. London, The MIT Press, 2002

Lovejoy, Margot, Digital currents: art in the electronic age, New York - London, Tourtledge,2004

Walsh, John, Bill Viola, Los Angeles, the J. Paul Getty Museum in association with The National Gallery, London, 2003