The aim of this course to take a look at the changes that have happened in art since the 1960s and to analyze the technological development, conceptual dynamics, and the new possiblities created by today's art.
Prerequisite(s)
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Corequisite(s)
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Special Requisite(s)
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Instructor(s)
Lecturer Selman Akıl
Course Assistant(s)
Schedule
This class will open in Spring semester.
Office Hour(s)
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Teaching Methods and Techniques
Lectures, group work, comparative analysis and project work.
Principle Sources
Charles Esche, Mütevazı Öneriler, Bağlam, 2005
Suzanne Lacy (ed. by), Mapping The Terrain, New genre Public Art, Bay Press, 1995.
Mika Hannula (ed. by),Stopping the Process, Contemporary views on art and exhbitions, Nifca, 1998.
Claire Doherty (ed. by), Contemporary Art from Studio to Situation, Black Dog Publishing, 2004.
Azra Tüzünoğlu (haz.), Dersimiz Güncel Sanat, Outlet, 2009.
Other Sources
Miwon Kwon, One Place After Another, Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity, MIT Press, 2004.
Brian Holmes, Escape the Overcode, Activist Art in the Control Society, Van Abbemuseum- WHW, 2009.
Grant H. Kester, Conversation Pieces, Community & Communication in Modern Art, University of California Press, 2004.
Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
Introduction course: a look at how today's understanding of art has transformed and changed since the 1960s
Lecture
2. Week
A look at the social and philosophical ties of the developing artistic movement of the 1960s
Lecture
3. Week
An analysis of how the boundaries of art form have been lifted.
Lecture
4. Week
The critical exhibitions and curators of modern art.
Lecture
5. Week
A look at the global scene of the art world after the 1960: different developments in different parts of the world.
Lecture
6. Week
A look at the relationship of new waves with technological developments.
Lecture
7. Week
A look at the direct relationship between new art movements and new political movements.
Lecture
8. Week
Midterm Exam
Exam
9. Week
New contributions, explotions and breaking points in art after 1990.
Lecture
10. Week
A look at the changes in art institutions.
Lecture
11. Week
A comparative analysis of the development of public art, process art and object art.
Lecture
12. Week
Turkey's modern art history.
Lecture
13. Week
Critical works of art in Turkey's modern art.
Lecture
14. Week
A look at the modern "art web" in terms of publications, events, and interdisciplinary works.
Lecture
15. Week
A look at the dynamics of modern art.
Lecture
16. Week
General Overview
Lecture
17. Week
Final Exam
Exam
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Midterm(s)
1
20
Homework / Term Projects / Presentations
1
20
Attendance
1
20
Final Exam
1
40
Program Outcomes
PO-1
Students will be able to define all sorts of concepts predominantly related with communication, arts and culture alongside other differint disciplines.
PO-2
Students will be able to interprete technological developments and other related artistic and cultural perceptions.
PO-3
Students will be able to understand contemporary/actual practises.
PO-4
Students will be able to analyse the organic relationships between art, communication
and society.
PO-5
Students will be able to experience the process neccesarry, producing creative designs.
PO-6
Students will be able to study independently of their own accord in a creative
environment
PO-7
Students will be able to use technical equipments properly, and be also accomplish their projects within the given period.
PO-8
Students will be able to transform their creative ideas into multidisciplinary applications.
PO-9
Students will be able to produce original works in different areas ranging from graphic arts, photography, cinema, performing arts to plastic arts.
PO-10
Students will be able to have experiences on film directory, script writing, photography directory and editing.
PO-11
Students will be able to gain proficiency on computer based design, character design for both two and three dimensional animation movie. They also will be able to have experience on stage design.
PO-12
Students will be able to have experiences on various disciplines of performing arts, such as acting, mimic, modern dance, singing, dramatic improvisation.
PO-13
Students will be able to create original art works in painting, sculpture and ceramic disciplines.
PO-14
Students will be able to gain an ability in producing projects together with experienced academics invited.
PO-15
Students will be able to participate in competetive projects both at home and abroad such as exhibitions, workshops and seminars.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
Recognize and define the social and philosophical origins of the formation of contemporary art.
LO-2
Recognize and define historically the evolution of contemporary art in a multi-dimensional transformation of the 1960s
LO-3
Assess critical trends of contemporary art in the last decades.
LO-4
Know the dominant values of today's art scene.
LO-5
Evaluate proposals of contemporary art from performance art to public art.
LO-6
Acquire a critical approach to the new studies with knowlegde of ethical, aesthetic and political experimentalism of contemporary art.
