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This course offers you the opportunity to engage with art thinking and art practice. It proposes a collective and experimental space based on the individual projects of each student. This course strengthens an analytic and experiential perspective regarding art practice as a method of research and its potential to understand our relation with the world from different disciplines and practices

In this course Art deals with the subjective translation of ideas to matter and materials, and in this conceptual and technical play, individual methodologies arise. By learning from their subjective processes, each student will be able to acknowledge their personal way of thinking which will be—at the same time—interdisciplinary (since art is constantly using the world’s problems and borrowing methods from other disciplines). Starting from each student’s subjectivity, this course proposes a collective and experimental space based on the individual projects of each student.

Students are invited to consider Science and Art as related systems to interpret the world and to speculate about ways of di-measure reality (incommensurability). It will provide the students with a wide range of approaches into art research and art practice and subjective approaches to scientific research and practice to expand the variety of ways of thinking. It aims to encourage critical awareness and individual ways of looking at, and understanding the world through making.

The objective of the course is to support the development of each student's individual enquiries, to enrich their interdisciplinary processes in order to expand their ability to use art as a research method. This will be catalysed through seminars, lectures, workshops and explorations; manifested in an exhibition where they will present their final art works as a reflection of their processes. They will also create a video essay to analyze their practice research.

Teaching Delivery

Please note that teaching for this module will be in term 1 and assessment in term 2. You can check the custom timetable to find this. The module is taught through weekly seminar sessions on Thursday mornings to strengthen your interests and personal projects, practice lectures from guest practitioners on Thursday afternoons and tutorials on Friday mornings.ÌýÌýÌý

Indicative Topics

• Art as process, studio work and studio practice.Ìý
• Art as a research methodology.
• Artistic thinking: the edge knowledge.Ìý
• The context of the artwork.
• The continuous fiction of art: the other reality. Ìý
• Studio practice: development of your own artwork, a continuous conversation.Ìý
• Collective discussions: thinking together.Ìý

Module aims and objectives

This module will provide an experience in interdisciplinary thinking, but one strongly influenced by the perspective and production of the artist. It will call on a wide-ranging set of materials from art, anthropology, architecture, philosophy, biology, physics, mathematics, neurology and geology and introduce the students to the work of thinkers and practitioners working in those areas. Further, it will visit a diversity of experts in different fields, to contribute and experiment with the aforementioned materials. To sum up, the module will be enriched with the projects and interests of each student contributing to the interdisciplinary dimension of the module.Ìý

• To provide students with a deep understanding of art as a research tool that creates a personal language embedded in the play of critical thinking and sensible development (seeing, feeling, imagining, others).
• To develop practical skills on the making of artworks focusing on finding each student's methods to create, analyse and communicate.Ìý
• To generate an appreciation of artistic references to be able to locate their personal concepts and creations in the work of others.Ìý
• To create complex connections between artworks and concepts to realise the power of art as an interdisciplinary research tool.Ìý
• To encourage the exchange of ideas and hybrid of collective work.Ìý
• To develop an integrated understanding of art towards a critical position of contemporary visual narratives.Ìý
• To be able to articulate a fine art project that demonstrates the use of art as a research tool.Ìý