2023

Project and Creative Act Theory

Name: Project and Creative Act Theory
Code: VIS13591M
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Arte Multimédia, Artes Plásticas

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

The main objectives are:
1. Analyze the production of the work of art, including the relationship created between author and viewer.
2. Promote the visual representation of memories: the observed and the projected supported in appropriate methods.
3. Characterize methods and identify their useful dimension in the arts.
4. Define concrete conceptual and implementation aspects.
5. Discover the emotional, rational procedures and their artistic incursions.
6. Sensitize students to the implications of history, theory and criticism implicit overall in their activity.
7. Define the subjective and objective dimensions in the work of art.
It is intended with this u.c. that students are able to: act and project; have a critical relationship with the work, and; are able to fulfill their ideas satisfactorily.

Contents

1. Global Concepts: Intelligence; Authorship; Project, and; Representation.
2. Specific Concepts: Intuition; Fiction/Validation, and; Drawing.
3. Intelligence: Multiple Intelligences including Emotional, and; Neural Fundamentals.
4. Subject and Object: Psychosocial factors in the formation of authorship; Creativity, and; Artwork as interaction of the author with the viewer.
5. Project: Style; Practical and theoretical affiliation; Representation Variables; Project Process adopted, and; Study of paradigmatic cases.
6. Reflections and artist descriptions of his own work: Some significant examples.
7. Design methods: Identification and analysis; Plan, design and test; Build and execute; Communicate, and; Results analysis.
8. Management and production; Coordination of work teams, and; Simulation of concrete cases.
9. Production stages.
10. Transdisciplinarity and technique.
11. Project oriented development: Project adequacy.
12. Legal aspects and implications. Implementation.

Teaching Methods

The classes will be based on explanations by the teacher but will often use an interactive model, promoting the sharing and discussion of theoretical and practical knowledge, using audiovisual media and other technical support manuals.
The intermediate evaluation of the student's performance will be done in the middle of the semester through a work in progress presentation of final work of the semester.
1. Continuous Evaluation:
a) Participation in classes: 20%;
b) Work developed during the period of classes with the accompaniment of the teacher, which should be submitted at least to a periodic evaluation with public disclosure of the classifications: 40%;
c) Presentation and defense of the work developed during the classes, which occurs in the period of "Normal season evaluations": 40%.
2. Final Evaluation
a) Work developed during the period of the classes with the follow-up of the teacher: 40%;
b) Realization of an exam based on the contents of the semester: 60%.

Teaching Staff