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This course offers you the opportunity to engage with art thinking and art practice. It proposes a collective and experimental space based on the individual projects of each student. You will learn, explore and practice arts processes and develop a personal art project. This module will provide an experience in interdisciplinary thinking. It will call on a wide-ranging set of materials from art, anthropology, architecture, philosophy, biology, physics, mathematics, neurology and geology and introduce students to the work of some thinkers and practitioners working in those areas. Further, it will visit a diversity of experts on different fields to contribute and experiment with the aforementioned materials.

Every year Arts and Interdisciplinarity chooses a concept as a pretext to catalyst the process of thinking together and through it start exploring each one art practice. This topic is just an excuse and an activator to start looking and understanding art together. The concept will get dissolve in the passing of the course to focus in your own art practice, concepts and interests. ÌýThis year we want to look at the EYE as a concept to start working all together as a class. But the eye as BLANK space that aims to generate a vision without eyes. We prefer to call this topic BLANK. BLANK will be the reasoning binding the course. This thematic will help us to frame the explorations and will work as an encounter axis.Ìý

We will use a mixture of theory and practice to generate a collective critical thinking. Weekly lecture/seminar sessions will strengthen your interests and personal projects. You will be expected to bring materials to the seminars every three weeks, which will be fed back into group lecture/seminar work and individual tutorials, as well as coursework assessments.Ìý

The final element of this course is the development and exhibition of your personal art project. One-to-one tutorials will engage you in the development of your personal project identifying and exploring your interest to potentiate the final shape of the project and expand its thought. Furthermore, the development of a personal artist notebook or diary will be required. This diary will be the print of your personal research and your project development.Ìý

Teaching Delivery

The module is taught through weekly 3-hour seminar sessions to strengthen your interests and personal projects, 2-hour lectures from guest practitioners with 3-hour workshops/tutorials following.

Indicative Topics

• Art as process, studio work and studio practice. Ìý
• Stretch your abilities: the artistic gesture. Ìý
• Talk through others: create your references and ground your interests. Ìý
• Studio practice: development of your own artwork, a continuous conversation. Ìý
• Art and action: Transforming meaning, making sense. Ìý
• Conceptualization of your art practice.Ìý

Module Aims and Objectives

This course will help you to develop your artistic thinking, increasing your interdisciplinary processes and gain a better understanding of creative methods. You will expand your understanding of art and potentiate your strategies to produce it. Through engaging with the seminar materials, explorations, tutorials and the development of your ideas you will generate a deeper critical awareness and individual ways of understanding the world. This course aims to potentiate and refine within the collective work the difference and particularity of your gaze to produce and materialise ideas.Ìý

• Supporting students in developing their creative skills and artistic thinking.Ìý
• Expand their referents and their approach to different subjects.Ìý
• Highlighting the subjective notion of measure and the structure of thinking.Ìý
• To encourage the exchange of ideas and hybrid of collective work.Ìý
• Demonstrate the potential of the interdisciplinary artistic practice.Ìý
• Encourage the students to develop a small fine art project.Ìý