Audiovisual Languages I

Thus, the fundamental objectives for this semester include, on the one hand, sharing the specific and necessary codes to decipher audiovisual language with a critical sense, trying to trace the evolution of audiovisual media within design and contemporary art through different variants or typologies (photography, film, video art and installation), and then, on the other hand, promote research and experimentation to enhance the students’ practice.

This space should be considered a laboratory, a collaborative work place offering both a theoretical and practical approach. Each student should research and experiment to enrich their voice and contribute with the rest of the class by sharing their findings, processes and materials. We promote an attentive look capable of discerning the keys to audiovisual language; the lights and the shadows, the obvious and the subtle, the visible and the invisible, the rational assumptions and the sensitive discharges. To put it in a nutshell, we are going to focus on the mysteries of perception, a territory surrounded by art, philosophy, neuroscience, psychoanalysis and many more disciplines, an indeterminate place that will help us boost, improve and expand our creativity.

Let’s try to see what the images communicate by looking carefully at what their narratives suggest or hide.

Let’s produce images to understand how they come to life and let’s find new ways to create images, let’s hack processes in order to be surprised by what they trigger.

Let’s create new narratives trough images.