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Cursus: MCRMV16042
MCRMV16042
Emerging and Transforming Media, Art and Performance
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CursuscodeMCRMV16042
Studiepunten (EC)5
Cursusdoelen
Acquire insight and knoweldge about changes and transformations within one of the sub themes (see below). This course offers three sub themes, looking at changes and transformations within media, art, and performance. It investigates these developments and their emergence within their specific historical and discursive formations.
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Media: This course focuses on the dynamics of media changes by looking to earlier precedents. It considers points in the development of media and intertwines three levels of analysis: 1. historically specific case studies of the emergence of particular media (e.g. photography, telegraphy, film) - with an eye on points of resonance with the present; 2. more general organizing concepts apparent over the long haul of media deployment (e.g. reproduction, extension, storage, participation, personalization); 3. debates over agency and implication particularly as they relate to a situated notion of historical inscription, aka, doing history at a moment of profound media change.  Art: Since the mid-19th century there have been periods in which artists have shown great awareness of the presence of the audience. This heightened sense of having an (institutionalized) audience has often had profound and transformative effects on the nature of art. Art theoretical and historical conceptualizations have tried in various ways, especially after the 1960s, to incorporate the changing and increasingly performative nature of contemporary visual art. This course looks into several types of spectatorship produced by both medium specific and intermedial types of art and discusses its conceptualization in theory and history. It focuses on contemporary art produced after the 1960s and addresses how basic assumptions about and ways of theorizing and conceptualizing art have changed. Performance: This course tracks the emergence of a radical transdisciplinarity in the performing arts, in which concepts, forms and strategies from theatre, dance and dramaturgy are employed in other domains beyond the (institutionalized) arts. These concepts and strategies are used, for instance, to investigate or envision alternative scenarios in areas of law, health, climate change, or research on neuroscience, autism and dementia. We will study these developments in relation to historical transformations in theatre, dance and performance, such as the shift from text-based theatre to postdramatic theatre, the performative turn in society and emergent situated and embodied modes of thought. Dance and performance knowledge fuel research methods, both in practice and in academic research, employed to critically dissect social and political matters of concern. 

Career orientation:
Students will develop research skills appropriate for current developments in media, art and performance, and in historical and comparative research relevant for reflection on the dynamics of historical change and transformation within these fields.
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