Course Des images, des mots... [Images, Words...] (methodology)

Weekly course for second-year students of the Bachelor’s degree (Licence) in Visual Arts at Paris 8.

Total effective teaching time: 36 hours per semester.

Abstract: This course aims to problematize works involving still images, moving images and associated texts. It will draw on examples from the classical arts (painting, drawing, printmaking), but above all from the so-called “apparatus-based” modern and contemporary arts (photography, video, experimental cinema, digital arts). The first step will be to study and practice the methods related to the commentary of works and texts; the second will be to bring forth, from the images, free texts that will seek to carry a weight of their own.

Course taught in the first semester, in 2021-2022, 2022-2023 and 2023-2024.