Faculty of Fine Arts

The curricular unit of Photography provides an initiation to autonomous artistic development supported by a series of technical, practical and tutorial principles taught in class and in laboratory.

The main goal of the course unit is to provide students with an open understanding of photography through the presentation and development of the main photographic genres, throughout its history until the contemporary practice, sustained by the reciprocal relationship between the pictorial form and the evolution of scientific and technological knowledge.

Having as a general goal the acquisition of structuring skills in the broad field of Visual Studies, as a transdisciplinary field of reflection and research of the image, Image Theory I has as specific objectives a) To study the image as a visual artifact that, in its multiple physical and conceptual variants and as a result of creative processes, asserts itself as an object of communication; b) To understand the conceptual aspects that define the image, the operative resources of the visual language it uses and the fundamental meanings it conveys; c) To investigate, identify and clarify the relations that images create and establish with other objects with which they are familiar or differentiate, regardless of contexts, categories and boundaries traditionally defined

A theoretical-practical course with a projectual scope that seeks to endow students with a set of historical and aesthetic tools that focus on the relationship that contemporary photography establishes with the fine arts. The trends operated by photography in contemporaneity are investigated from themes and genres, establishing interdisciplinary crossings with the area of multimedia that amplify and sediment the photographic medium for new approaches and dialogues within the universe of installation, video art, sound, painting or sculpture. The authorial work is accompanied in a tutorial regime so that the student consolidates and enriches the sustained development of his photographic project. 

The objectives of the course are: to know the historical framework of visual culture; to exercise critical thinking in the presence of cultural manifestations; to articulate critically theoretical formulations; to frame and discuss contemporary issues in the field of visual culture; to know the various types of studies and themes within the discipline; to know the main authors, texts and schools of thought; to master the fundamental concepts; to write commentaries, reviews, or documented essays.

Having as its general objective the acquisition of structuring skills in the broad field of Visual Studies, as a transdisciplinary field of reflection and investigation of the visual, Theory of Image II has the following specific objectives: a) To deepen the capacity of reflection, analysis and interdisciplinary understanding of images; b) To guarantee scientific training capable of relating visual creation in the different paths in Multimedia Art, operating multidisciplinary approaches to the problematic of the image in contemporary visual culture; c) To provide research methods and techniques that help the student in the construction of a personalized path.