Laboratory of Videoart

Code: VIS15818O

1 ECTS

Duration: 3 weeks/26 hours

Scientific Area: Arte Multimédia

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Sustainable Development Goals

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Learning Goals

1. Understand videoart in the aesthetic and historical spheres of the visual arts.
2. Know how to apply digital moving image editing tools in free basic software.
3. Understand and practise composing, manipulating and creating moving images in digital format.
4. Know the formats and resolution of digital moving images suitable for different purposes such as dissemination on the Internet and video projection.

1. A brief historical and aesthetic overview of video art: the birth of video art in the 1960s, video art and political activism, the interrelationships between video, performance and conceptual art, the specificities of the medium, criticism of the mass media, installation and links with cinema and the Internet in the new millennium.
2. Typification of shots, scene, sequence, camera angles and movements, field, time, space, rhythm. Script and storyboard. The importance of force vectors in composition and image formats in creating meaning.
3. Digital video editing with reference to video art pieces from the history of art: editing as a producer of meaning in the modelling and modulation of time: cuts between shots, transitions, inking and methods of adjusting and correcting colour and audio editing.

Teaching Methods

The programme is linked to a series of pre-scheduled practical laboratory exercises.
The practical exhibitions, using audiovisual materials and images by various artists throughout the history of art, encourage the acquisition of a transversal and interdisciplinary vision of multimedia. Practical laboratory experimentation in the field of multimedia technology leads to skills in communicating visually using a clear and effective basic language.

Assessment

Continuous assessment of attendance and participation in all the sessions, which will take into account: attendance, dedication, commitment, imaginative and creative capacity, work done in response to the exercises proposed, progress during the sessions, and mastery of the techniques and knowledge taught. The final assessment will be quantitative.