Visual Arts, Creative Media and Practices
Student Elli Koutra’s work
Creative Media and Visual Arts Practices
The department offers a series of studio classes in visual arts practices where students become acquainted with a range of artistic tools and media, exploring all stages of art production, from concept making, construction to documentation of an artwork, whilst developing an experiential vocabulary around the aesthetics and ethics of materials, tools and processes. Studio classes aim at the development of a personal artistic voice and at the initiation in collaborative practice and critical understanding of art production and its role in the commons. Students also participate in knowledge studio classes that focus on experimental design and implementation of curatorial projects. These classes are designed as a response to contemporary needs for novel research approaches to curatorial practice and to art production
Creative Media and Audiovisual Practices
The department also offers a range of courses that explores theories, strategies and methods that relate to audiovisual production. These courses offer students the chance to experiment with different genres of still and moving imagery and enable an understanding of the ways in which audiovisual production can be managed, exhibited and produced in different formats and idioms, ranging from physical exhibitions to the internet. These courses further investigate emerging visual technologies and the ways in which these are complexified by the digital and in interactive installations. Building on a commitment to critical innovation as well as professionalism and a collaborative research ethos, the courses aim for students to delve into various forms of visual language and explore the potential applications of the creative visual industry.
Performance, narrating and writing
Through an interdisciplinary scope, the department offers courses on theories and methods that explore performance, narration and writing in art practice and art research. Drawing on various approaches in the social sciences and the humanities, these courses focus on performance as a key feature of cultural and artistic practice and they explore its application in education. Students are introduced to basic themes in narrative theory and technique especially as it concerns literature and the performance arts. The curriculum combines theoretical training with studio classes in which students become acquainted with art practice that spans the fields of performance arts and creative writing (e.g., performance dramaturgy, literary performance, oral narratives, lecture performance). Students also explore the potential of various kinds of sociopolitical intervention through performance. The curriculum offers transferable skills that relate to the use of language, voice and the body and that become useful in professional practice in the context of contemporary cultural production.
