4D Discourses, Techniques and Technology Installations

This subject, which is part of the Languages, Techniques and Technologies subject, is a fundamentally practical workshop and experimentation space. As in all the subjects of this subject, the knowledge of materials and their behaviours, and the learning of different techniques and technologies, on the one hand, is related to, on the other, the emergence of language and the aesthetic and communicative of artistic practice. Since this subject is a continuation of 4D, Languages, Techniques and Technologies, it continues to operate under the umbrella of the 4D denomination, that is, time-based practices are explored, including audio-visual, sound work and practical performative. The particularity of this subject is that it introduces the notion of installation as a backbone, understanding it both in relation to the physical space, as well as delving into the various contemporary or historical frames of reference that make up the context of an artistic project.

The subject proposes a space for inquiry around audio-visual, sound and performative artistic practices, the various genealogies, languages, codes and subjects. A critical approach is sought in their work processes, action, production, registration and communication. Emphasis is placed on addressing the contextual both in terms of physical location and perceptual articulation and in relation to the artistic frames of reference and the different cultural and social ecosystems in which an artistic project is inscribed.

• Acquisition and demonstration of advanced understanding of theoretical and practical aspects and of work methodology in the field of artistic practices.
• Resolution of specific professional problems and situations with entrepreneurial and innovative attitudes.
• Elaboration of orthographically and grammatically correct reports and written documents (mainly of a technical nature) in Catalan, Spanish and English.
• Conduct of investigations integrating a feminist and egalitarian perspective.
• Development of processes of formalization and installation of time-based works using techniques and tools in an accurate and creative way.
• Ability to analyze the specific problems and constraints of the formalization and installation of time-based media and formats and address them consciously and creatively in practice.
• Ability to show responsibility, sensitivity and technical imagination in the processes of working with time-based media and their installation.
• Activate, by means of the installation, the disposition with intention and the intensification of specific elements, the intrinsic qualities and the associative resonances that must be taken into account in a preferential way in a work carried out with time-based media.

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