Art Studio

This introductory studio course presents photography as a medium of documentation, critical communication, and personal expression related to social issues and intimate involvement. It builds photography skills including composition, light, and technical expertise. Alongside developing skills, the course considers questions of identity and expression in photography and examines how photographs have been used as markers of cultural identification. The course challenge students to question, explore, and express their own identity through photography and to take inspiration from their host city environment, in synergy or contrast with their own identity. It deepens the ability to think critically and express thoughts through images and related texts by analyzing and interpreting experiences in Italian society. Through various photographic exercises and assignments, the course explores digital photography as a tool to interpret and narrate different aspects of the city and one's personal experience of and with it, reflecting on identity in a visual way. Lectures cover technical aspects related to shooting and editing, conceiving and amplifying projects, and addressing different audiences. The course also offers an overview on Italian and international photographers and different approaches in contemporary photographic practice. Classroom discussions, assigned readings, and photo responses, combined with the personal experience of the photographic medium, help to develop critical skills to understand how photographs work aesthetically and conceptually in various contexts, how they are used in contemporary society and culture, and how they become means of personal exploration.

This course offers a practical study of different techniques of lithographic engraving on aluminum plates. 

This course provides an understanding of what the space is. We experience spaces either created or developed by various relationships between people and their surroundings. This course covers the various relationships formed by environmental elements, such as building structure formed space as well as human beings. Beside this main concept, students have to find the method to express its inter-relationships for using graphic and rendering techniques clearly. This course focuses on practical sketch, drawing and color rendering techniques to express ideas.

This studio course examines issues and design considerations particular to managing complex information. It covers techniques, skills and processes in communicating through text, symbol, color and form.

The course combines dynamic graphic design practice with a focus on animation art through digital technology. It also examines the concept of modern digital animation communication design. Topics include aesthetics, image expression, digital animation, design, and production of dynamic graphics.

This studio course focuses on issues and design considerations particular to printmaking. Students acquire specific printmaking techniques, skills and processes to gain competence in this hands-on medium. Students who successfully complete this paper should be able to: Demonstrate understanding of the use of form, texture, balance, weight, hierarchy and visual coding in art and design; Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and experimentation within the practice of printmaking; Apply exploratory thinking to generate ideas and creative works in response to project challenges; Competently utilize iterative printmaking processes to transform ideas into technically resolved outcomes; Source and utilise information in a variety of forms and contexts to support their process.