Course: Visual Communication II

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Course title Visual Communication II
Course code KDT/870
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Szoboszlai János György, PhD., M.A.
Course content
These informations are in the annotation of the course.

Learning activities and teaching methods
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Learning outcomes
The course focuses on one particular medium of communication between art and society: the exhibition. The course provides basic concepts of museum- and exhibition studies (display, discursivity, white cube, funding, interpretation, curatorial, educational turn, performativity). 1. The activity of Harald Szeeman. 2. The educational institutions of curatorial studies. 3. The curatorial turn. 4. Curatorial practices. 5. The educational turn. 6. The authorship of curation. 7. Exhibition studies: relevancy, research, concept, project vision, complex project management. 8. Exhibition studies: financial plan, budget control, financial administration. 9. Exhibition studies: public funding and sponsorship, communication. 10. Theories of museum criticism. 11. Art practice as institutional criticism (Buren, D., Haacke, H., Broodthaers, M., Hirst., D.).
The gained capabilities constitute an encompassment and an aquirement of knowledge and experience in the given field of study, they result from a concrete annotation of the subject and are aimed at a profile´s fulfilment of the graduate of the given field of study.
Prerequisites
Successful completion of the previous study

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Dialogue
Recommended literature
  • Belting, H. Global Art as Contemporary Art. The Global Art World - Audiences, Markets, and Museums. Osfildern Hatje Canz, 2009.
  • Bennett, T. The Exhibitionary Complex - The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politcs. New York, Routledge, 1995.
  • Bourriaud, N. Esthétique Relationelle. Dijon, 1998.
  • Edson, G. and Dean, D. The Handbook for Museums. Routledge, London and New York, 1994.
  • Greenberg, R.; Ferguson, B. W.; Mairne, S. Thinking about Exhibitions. Routledge, 1996.
  • Harding, A. ed. Curating - The Contemporary Art Museum and Beyond. Art & Design 52/1997, 1997.
  • Kester, G. Conversation Pieces: The Role of Dialogue in Socially Engaged Art. Theory inContemporary Art Since 1985, Blackwell, 2008.
  • Obrist, H. U. A Brief History of Curating. Zürich-Dijon, JRP Ringier-Les Presses, 2008.
  • O´Doherty, B. . Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space. University of California Press, 1999.
  • O´Neill, P. . The Curatorial Turn: From Practice to Discourse. In. Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance. Intellect Books, Bristol, 2007.


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