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This course attempts to introduce to participants the techniques and skills of the Pottery Wheel such as kneading, centering, putting up walls, constructing cylinders, cones, amphorae and open shapes, corners and connections, outdoor decorations, handles and covers, at the same time, the program covers design tools and tools of a conceptual nature for the creation of unique pieces in which the utilitarian aspect is overcome by artistic and sculptural interests.

This course aims at raising awareness in students as regards pottery as a means of artistic expression, providing the basic technical processes to enable the development of creative processes for the conception of individual projects. Knowing how to handle the material properly, goes hand in hand with planning, design and conceptual development. The essential topic of the course is "The power to transform the four elements: earth, water, wind and fire" which serves as a point of reflection and conceptual research for the realization of plastic designs.  

This course explores the production and reading of photographic images in a theoretic and practical formseeking the command and knowledge of the principles of photographic equipment developing techniques and enlargement in black and white. Similarly it analyzes the effect of the invention of photography on different areas of knowledge.

This course aims to take on the phenomenon of contemporaneous visual culture from the photographic standpoint. It is about visiting the "common places" that photography has managed to establish in our perception of images and those that are now being conceived, the new ways to see the world that the sensitive surface has created, that now seem to be as ordinary as our own sight. Each of these "common places" is displayed throughout history and the present of photography, bringing together examples, authors and images. This opens a panorama for reflection that covers family photography, press photography, experiments of contemporaneous art, scientific uses, visual events in the media and the creation of digital images.

The main axis is the representation of the human body and its importance throughout the history of art and in different cultures. Based on this historical review, students develop their creative project supported by selected readings. At the technical level, first-level knowledge is consolidated and emphasis is made on finishes and surfaces.

By taking a trip through the end of modernity and its repercussions, the artistic vanguards of the late 19th Century and the early 20th Century, the post-structuralist theories, the appearance and expansion of mass media, the triumph of technology in the 1980s and the kingdom of the digital media that came about in the 1990s, this course attempts to understand these models of thought and expression that enclose contemporaneous culture.

The general objective of the Time Workshop is the practical introduction to the aesthetics of time in the arts. It explores creation processes in mediums based on length of time, whose specific objective is the intermedial experimentation between them. The course consists of two modules. The first starts with an introduction to the fundamentals of sound art and its forms of time-based structuring. The second introduces students to aesthetic experiences based on transports of poetic meaning in time, stressing the notion of montage applicable to the creation of audiovisual as well as performative sequences.

This course is devoted to generating knowledge and an opportunity to reflect on the history of Colombian film, understood as a tradition that, over time, has created an account of the country. During the course, Colombian film is assumed as a cross between practices that involves artistic, economic and social components relating to the country´s history that, at the same time, is equipped with its own particular, specific development.

This course proposes a reflection based on different topics arising from the relationship between the artist and the city. It takes into account the interdisciplinary nature of these relationships, in which artistic proposals imply a direct link to other disciplines such as architecture, literature, philosophy, anthropology and sociology. These relationships are articulated in different socio-cultural contexts of modern and contemporary times. Special emphasis is made on presenting these experiences at the beginning as reflections that lead to teamwork based on art, with a clear concern for the surrounding context, which in this case is the city.

Traditional education in art teaches you how to think by doing, but when the work is made public, there are conditions that influence what has been created, producing acts of language that go along with the language of the work of art. The space of art is not only that occupied by material objects, on the contrary, it is about the construction of a transactional nature occupied by ephemeral processes of interaction, a relationship of strength between two situations and the distance between them. The reading material and contents of this course boil down to identifying the distance, tension and confrontation between physical as well as mental spaces to think of art.