Medialities

Teacher : Michela Sacchetto

Thinking and doing in terms of mediality means approaching works, works and media tools as places where a relation to the world is performed, a relation that is implied as well as implicit within a medium or network of media. The course aims to interrogate the spatial and relational dimensions of media tools, which co-produce and displace the social and cultural milieux in which we live, and dispose the perceptions, aesthetics and politics of collective space. These trades are historical, cultural and determined, and thus interested in diverse transformations and manipulations. This is the prism through which we will summon diverse artistic practices and theories produced by thinkers and artists, primarily during the second half of the 20th century and into the 21st.

Objectives:

Introduce students to media histories relating to transdisciplinary artistic practices, with particular reference to conditions of production and access. Students are encouraged to reflect on the development of their own practice in the light of these proposals.

Method:

The course is punctuated by readings, film and video projections by artists, and listening sessions. The historical approach is accompanied by a theoretical one, in order to apprehend the works (images, texts, sounds, etc.) in their resonance with contemporary thought. The various subjects are not called upon as commentaries on one another, but as contextual and situated experiences, and above all as critical tools. Students are invited to take an active part in the construction of the course, through their questions and suggestions, and artists and thinkers are regularly invited to speak to the class.