Sumários
McLuhan and Xenofeminism
18 Fevereiro 2025, 11:00 • Marzia D'Amico
The lesson resumed from the previous one, continuing with a critical overview of the various disciplines that inform and are informed by Visual Culture (both as a practice and as an academic field). The concept of Xenofeminism was then introduced as a tool for exploring the hyper-digital media landscape, drawing parallels with McLuhan's conceptualization of "the medium is the message".
Cultural Turn, Semiotics, Representation
14 Fevereiro 2025, 11:00 • Marzia D'Amico
The students were introduced to the contextualisation of Visual Culture as a discipline, followed by a focus on the figures of Saussure, Barthes, and Hall, as well as the semiotic vocabulary proposed for the analysis of images as texts. The lesson concluded with a group activity, during which some students presented an image or gesture and explained its analysis using the vocabulary they had acquired. Clarifications on the written and oral exams were offered.
Visual Culture Studies: history, theory and practice
13 Fevereiro 2025, 15:30 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta
Introduction to key concepts in the study of Visual Culture.