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DEBATING THE BODY
Country
Netherlands
Host Institution
Utrecht University
Program(s)
Utrecht University
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Film & Media Studies Anthropology
UCEAP Course Number
120
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
DEBATING THE BODY
UCEAP Transcript Title
DEBATING THE BODY
UCEAP Quarter Units
6.00
UCEAP Semester Units
4.00
Course Description

This course offers a range of approaches to contemporary conversations around embodiment and ideas of normativity. In particular, it familiarizes students with representations of physical and mental difference in film, social media, and literature within and beyond European and North American contexts. Featured themes include disability and identity, health and constructions of the self, mental difference, and the quest for political recognition.

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
LI3V23003
Host Institution Course Title
DEBATING THE BODY
Host Institution Campus
Utrecht University
Host Institution Faculty
Faculty of Humanities
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Language and Culture Studies

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NEW MEDIA: FROM VIDEO TO AI
Country
Germany
Host Institution
Free University of Berlin
Program(s)
Humboldt University Berlin,Free University Berlin
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Film & Media Studies Art History
UCEAP Course Number
114
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
NEW MEDIA: FROM VIDEO TO AI
UCEAP Transcript Title
MEDIA VIDEO TO AI
UCEAP Quarter Units
4.50
UCEAP Semester Units
3.00
Course Description

Since the 1990s the term “new media” has become associated with digital media, but throughout the 20th century it was used to refer to any image technology of recent vintage. Thus, during the 1920s, artists would refer to photography or film as “new media.” This seminar picks up this history at a later point, in the late 1960s, when the “electronic” medium of video became available to visual artists. It traces how video was adopted by European and American artists and, in particular, how the medium was defined in relation to more conventional media, such as painting or sculpture, or in relation to television as a mass medium. Certain unique characteristics of video can be highlighted (e.g. liveness or feedback), however not all artists who used video were concerned with establishing a separate “discipline” of video art. Video was also instrumental to a form of “artivism” during the seventies, which mirrors comparable developments in contemporary art. Today, the terms “film” and “video” tend to be used interchangeably, but this is largely due to the introduction of digital video in the 1990s. The seminar pursues a genealogy of digital art, which originates in the 1960s, and trace it into the present, discussing the role of artistic practice within an “algorithmic culture” and the impact of artificial intelligence on the current status of the image.

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
13500
Host Institution Course Title
NEW MEDIA: FROM VIDEO TO AI
Host Institution Campus
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Kunsthistorisches Institut

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AUDIENCES FOR ART, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND FILM
Country
Netherlands
Host Institution
Utrecht University
Program(s)
Utrecht University
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Film & Media Studies Art History
UCEAP Course Number
121
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
AUDIENCES FOR ART, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND FILM
UCEAP Transcript Title
ART PHOTOGY & FILM
UCEAP Quarter Units
6.00
UCEAP Semester Units
4.00
Course Description

This course considers how artists, filmmakers, and photographers have reacted against and dealt with the presence of the audience, focusing on post 1960s art, photography, and art film up to our present days. Video and performances of Bruce Nauman, happenings of Allan Kaprow, participatory art of Marina Abramovic, video work by Rineke Dijkstra, photography of Thomas Struth, and relational aesthetics are examined. Theories and ideas that deal with the presence of (mass) audiences, reception aesthetics, and the educational turn are reviewed. The course consists out of lectures, excursions, guest lectures, student experiments on the reception of art and so on. This course includes excursions. This could possibly involve costs (travel expenses and museum admission). Art history students are advised to purchase a museum year card or an ICOM pass (https://icom.nl/nl/lidmaatschap/individueel-lidmaatschap). The latter pass allows you to visit museums at home and abroad free of charge. Other students should take into account that extra costs are possible. 

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
KU3V19002
Host Institution Course Title
AUDIENCES FOR ART, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND FILM
Host Institution Campus
Utrecht University
Host Institution Faculty
Faculty of Humanities
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Language and Cultural Studies

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CYBORGS, ANDROIDS, AND AIS: RE-IMAGINING THE HUMAN
Country
Germany
Host Institution
Free University of Berlin
Program(s)
Free University Berlin
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Film & Media Studies English
UCEAP Course Number
124
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
CYBORGS, ANDROIDS, AND AIS: RE-IMAGINING THE HUMAN
UCEAP Transcript Title
REIMAGING THE HUMAN
UCEAP Quarter Units
4.50
UCEAP Semester Units
3.00
Course Description

At the end of the 20th century, several scholars famously pronounced that society had become “posthuman” (N. Katherine Hayles) and that “we are cyborgs” (Donna Haraway). Two and a half decades later, this diagnosis seems even more accurate: cyborgs, androids, and artificial intelligence populate literature and film; ‘cyborg’ technology in medicine can replaces limbs, organs, and senses; and artificial intelligence assists humans in various ways in their daily lives, from applications in their phones to digital assistants and chatbots. What are the implications of these developments for a traditional understanding of the human and the relationship between humans and machines? How do these transformations impact ideas about, and representations of, the human body and embodiment? What ethical and socio-political issues are at stake? The course explores these questions with the help of theoretical approaches from the fields of Posthumanism, Gender Studies and Critical Race Studies, as well as literary texts and films. Students read two contemporary novels – Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein (2019) and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (2021) – and watch two films – Alex Garland’s Ex Machina (2014) and Ridley Scott’s Prometheus (2012). They also have a chat with Chat GPT.

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
17362
Host Institution Course Title
CYBORGS, ANDROIDS, AND AIS: RE-IMAGINING THE HUMAN
Host Institution Campus
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Institut für Englische Philologie

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STRANGE TALES IN NARRATIVE AND FILM
Country
Chile
Host Institution
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Program(s)
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Film & Media Studies English
UCEAP Course Number
112
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
STRANGE TALES IN NARRATIVE AND FILM
UCEAP Transcript Title
NARRATIVE & FILM
UCEAP Quarter Units
5.00
UCEAP Semester Units
3.30
Course Description

The focus of this course will be the discussion and comparative analysis of English language narrative and film within the domain of the Strange, Fantastic, Sci-fi, Slipstream and New Weird sub-genres. The lectures and discussions will cover the cross-medium experience, adaptation, film theory and literary "readings" of film. An interdisciplinary approach involving literary theory, film theory, philosophy, pop culture and psychoanalysis will be employed in these analyses.

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
LET018l
Host Institution Course Title
STRANGE TALES IN NARRATIVE AND FILM
Host Institution Campus
San Joaquín
Host Institution Faculty
Facultad de Letras
Host Institution Degree
Letras Inglesas mención literatura
Host Institution Department
Letras Inglesas

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PHOTOGRAPHY: PRACTICE AND THEORY
Country
United Kingdom - England
Host Institution
University of Sussex
Program(s)
University of Sussex
UCEAP Course Level
Lower Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Film & Media Studies
UCEAP Course Number
80
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
PHOTOGRAPHY: PRACTICE AND THEORY
UCEAP Transcript Title
PHOTOGRAPHY
UCEAP Quarter Units
6.00
UCEAP Semester Units
4.00
Course Description

This course introduces students to photography as a tool for communication and encourages students to reflect critically on issues of form and content to convey meaning. Students will learn key technical processes in contemporary image making and consider existing photographic theories alongside emerging digital practices. Students will work individually to realise set exercises in and out of class and produce a completed series of images to a set brief.

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
P4065
Host Institution Course Title
PHOTOGRAPHY: PRACTICE AND THEORY
Host Institution Campus
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Media and film studies
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