Filippo FIMIANI | AESTETICS AND IMAGES THEORY Program 2022/2023

Generalities: FILIPPO FIMIANI

Academic Year: 2022/2023

Study Class: Three-year Degree Communication Sciences

Teaching Activity: AESTETICS AND IMAGES THEORY (9 CFU = 60 HOURS)

EDUCATIONAL GOALS

First educational goal is to provide the necessary elements and tools to learning of the main themes and categories of the aesthetics and the image theories, with particular regard to the arts and the media, specific ones or re-medied into new devices and the social expanded field. The student will be able to orient himself with intelligence in the contemporary debate about images and imagery, technological apparatus and social appearances, as well as to verify his know-how and critical skills creatively, actually proposing and discussing an inter-medial product or a paper, in collaboration with Linea d’Ombra Festival too.

PRE-REQUIREMENTS

Would be desirable notions of semiotics, aesthetics, modern and contemporary art history, history of cinema and media.

CLASS CONTENTS

Manners of making, ways of being. Aesthetics of ordinary life, aestheticization, artification

Aesthetics primarily concern the aisthesis, i.e. the senses and the sensitivity, the bodily experiences not restricted to the "world of art" but felt and shared in the daily "world of life" and in the field of the artify and aesthetication in general. The course will examine unexpected or routineers fabrications, transmissions and fruition of behaviors, gestures and aesthetic actions: no longer limited to works of art and their institutional sites, but created and felt by each of us in ordinary life and in public and privates, i.e. secrets places, doing a thousand things and using a thousand objects, as well as photographed, filmed, in short produced and participated through the media and communication tools omnipresent and pervasive in our agendas, these experiences of ordinary life realize and require particular attention. The course will investigate the ways of making and the aesthetic practices that, more or less perceived or habitual, themed or suffered, mark and characterize our behaviors and routines, our tastes and consumption, finally our social life and social identities, from walking in our cities to body care, from food to fashion, from everyday objects to smartphone.

Thanks to the many textual materials–literary, theoretical and critical–and iconic–artistic and non-artistic, cinematographic and filmic, documentaries, etc.–, which will be presented and discussed, but thanks also by the practical and creative checks with the students during an ad hoc workshop –also carried out in collaboration with the Festival Linea d’Ombra –, the course aims to provide the elements and tools useful for understanding the contemporary aesthetic debate on the ordinary life.

TEACHING METHODS

Theoretical and methodological lessons and practical exercises.

HOW TO VERIFY LEARNING

Constant checks, group and individual, and the creation of an audiovisual product or a scholar paper.

REFERENCES TEXTS

STUDENTS WHO ATTEND CLASSES AND PARTICIPATE IN THE WORKSHOP

• Elisabetta Di Stefano, Che cos’è l’estetica quotidiana, Carocci 2017
• Michel de Certeau, L’invenzione del quotidiano, Edizioni Lavoro 2001 [1990], capp.7, 8, 9 (pp. 63-143-168, 169-172, 173-194)
• Marsha Berry, Creating with Mobile Media, Palgrave Macmillan 2017, cap.4, pp.65-86
• Anna Dezeuze, Assemblage, Bricolage, and the Practice of Everyday Life, in «Art Journal», 67(1), 2008, pp.31-37
• Gabriela Farías, Everyday Aesthetics in Contemporary Art, in «Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities», (3)3, 2011, pp.440-447
• Edgar Gómez Cruz, Photo-genic assemblages: Photography as a connective Interface, in Edgar Gómez Cruz, Asko Lehmuskallio (eds.), Digital Photography and Everyday Life: Empirical Studies on material visual Practices, Routledge 2016, pp.228-242
• Amparo Lasén Díaz, Lo ordinario digital: digitalización de la vida cotidiana como forma de trabajo, in «Cuadernos de Relaciones Laborale», 37(1), 2019, pp.313-330
• Roberta Shapiro, Nathalie Heinich, When is Artification?, in «Contemporay Aesthetics», Special Issue, 4, 2012

https://www.contempaesthetics.org/newvolume/pages/article.php?articleID=639

• Imanuel Shipper, From flâneur to co-producer: The performative spectator, in Martina Leeker, Imanuel Schipper, Timon Beyes (eds.), Performing the Digital. Performativity and Performance Studies in Digital Cultures, transcript Verlag 2017, pp.191-209

STUDENTS WHO DO NOT ATTEND CLASSES

• Elisabetta Di Stefano, Che cos’è l’estetica quotidiana, Carocci 2017
• Michel de Certeau, L’invenzione del quotidiano, Edizioni Lavoro 2001 [1990], capp.7, 8, 9 (pp. 63-143-168, 169-172, 173-194)
• Marsha Berry, Creating with Mobile Media, Palgrave Macmillan 2017, cap.4, pp.65-86
• Anna Dezeuze, Assemblage, Bricolage, and the Practice of Everyday Life, in «Art Journal», 67(1), 2008, pp.31-37
• Gabriela Farías, Everyday Aesthetics in Contemporary Art, in «Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities», (3)3, 2011, pp.440-447
• Edgar Gómez Cruz, Photo-genic assemblages: Photography as a connective Interface, in Edgar Gómez Cruz, Asko Lehmuskallio (eds.), Digital Photography and Everyday Life: Empirical Studies on material visual Practices, Routledge 2016, pp.228-242
• Amparo Lasén Díaz, Lo ordinario digital: digitalización de la vida cotidiana como forma de trabajo, in «Cuadernos de Relaciones Laborale», 37(1), 2019, pp.313-330
• Roberta Shapiro, Nathalie Heinich, When is Artification?, in «Contemporay Aesthetics», Special Issue, 4, 2012

https://www.contempaesthetics.org/newvolume/pages/article.php?articleID=639

- Imanuel Shipper, From flâneur to co-producer: The performative spectator, in Martina Leeker, Imanuel Schipper, Timon Beyes (eds.), Performing the Digital. Performativity and Performance Studies in Digital Cultures, transcript Verlag 2017, pp.191-209STUDENTS WHO DO NOT ATTEND CLASSES, IN ADDITION TO TEXTS LISTED ABOVE, CHOOSE 2 BETWEEN

• Giovanni Matteucci, The Aesthetic as a Matter of Practices: Form of Life in Everydayness and Art, «Comprendre», 8(2), 2016, pp. 9-28

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/83004024.pdf

• Pentti Määttänen, Aesthetics of Movement and Everyday Aesthetics, in «Contemporay Aesthetics», Special Issue, 1, 2005

https://www.contempaesthetics.org/newvolume/pages/article.php?articleID=347

• Ilaria Serra, “Street” is Feminine in Italian: Feminine Bodies and Street Spaces, in Richard Shusterman (ed.), Bodies in the Streets: The Somaesthetics of City Life, Brill 2019, pp.153-176

- Richard Shusterman, Bodies in the Streets: The Soma, the City, and the Art of Living, in Richard Shusterman (ed.), Bodies in the Streets: The Somaesthetics of City Life, Brill 2019, pp.13-37

REFERENCE TEXTS FOR 6CFU and ERASMUSSTUDENTS WHO ATTEND CLASSES AND PARTICIPATE IN THE WORKSHOP

• Elisabetta Di Stefano, Che cos’è l’estetica quotidiana, Carocci 2017
• Michel de Certeau, L’invenzione del quotidiano, Edizioni Lavoro 2001 [1990], capp.7, 8, 9 (pp. 63-143-168, 169-172, 173-194)
• Anna Dezeuze, Assemblage, Bricolage, and the Practice of Everyday Life, in « Art Journal », 67(1), 2008, pp.31-37
• Edgar Gómez Cruz, Photo-genic assemblages: Photography as a connective Interface, in Edgar Gómez Cruz, Asko Lehmuskallio (eds.), Digital Photography and Everyday Life: Empirical Studies on material visual Practices, Routledge 2016, pp.228-242
• Roberta Shapiro, Nathalie Heinich, When is Artification?, in «Contemporay Aesthetics», Special Issue, 4, 2012

https://www.contempaesthetics.org/newvolume/pages/article.php?articleID=639

STUDENTS WHO DO NOT ATTEND CLASSES

• Elisabetta Di Stefano, Che cos’è l’estetica quotidiana, Carocci 2017
• Michel de Certeau, L’invenzione del quotidiano, Edizioni Lavoro 2001 [1990], capp.7, 8, 9 (pp. 63-143-168, 169-172, 173-194)
• Anna Dezeuze, Assemblage, Bricolage, and the Practice of Everyday Life, in «Art Journal», 67(1), 2008, pp.31-37
• Edgar Gómez Cruz, Photo-genic assemblages: Photography as a connective Interface, in Edgar Gómez Cruz, Asko Lehmuskallio (eds.), Digital Photography and Everyday Life: Empirical Studies on material visual Practices, Routledge 2016, pp.228-242
• Roberta Shapiro, Nathalie Heinich, When is Artification?, in «Contemporay Aesthetics», Special Issue, 4, 2012

https://www.contempaesthetics.org/newvolume/pages/article.php?articleID=639

- Imanuel Shipper, From flâneur to co-producer: The performative spectator, in Martina Leeker, Imanuel Schipper, Timon Beyes (eds.), Performing the Digital. Performativity and Performance Studies in Digital Cultures, transcript Verlag 2017, pp.191-209

IN ADDITION TO TEXTS LISTED ABOVE, CHOOSE 1 BETWEEN

• Marsha Berry, Creating with Mobile Media, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, cap.4, pp.65-86
• Amparo Lasén Díaz, Lo ordinario digital: digitalización de la vida cotidiana como forma de trabajo, in «Cuadernos de Relaciones Laborale», 37(1), 2019, pp.313-330
• Yuriko Saito, Everyday Aesthetics and Artification, in «Contemporay Aesthetics», Special Issue, 4, 2012

https://www.contempaesthetics.org/newvolume/pages/article.php?articleID=640

• Ilaria Serra, “Street” is Feminine in Italian: Feminine Bodies and Street Spaces, in Richard Shusterman (ed.), Bodies in the Streets: The Somaesthetics of City Life, Brill 2019, pp.153-176