Artistic Creation

Artistic Creation

Course Type:
PHD

This PhD programme will be lectured by Departamento de Comunicação e Arte da Universidade de Aveiro (DECA); Escola Superior de Arte e Design – Caldas da Rainha (ESAD.CR); Escola Superior de Media Arte e Design and Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo do Porto (ESMAD and ESMAE)

The Programme in Artistic Creation (PDCA) is a doctoral programme of the University of Aveiro in association with the Polytechnic University of Leiria and the Polytechnic Institute of Porto. This Doctoral Programme promotes a transdisciplinary strategy for the development of experimental creative thinking, welcoming candidates with an interest in creative practices, namely in the areas of Plastic Arts, Sonic Arts, Visual Arts, Dance, Theatre and Music. This cycle of studies was born out of exchanges between researchers from the institutions involved, either within the scope of projects they shared, or within the scope of various initiatives such as congresses, festivals, exhibitions, colloquia or other events.

The associated institutions complement the DP offer by adding disciplinary areas that the UA lacks as well as human resources for teaching and supervision, and also by providing logistical support (spaces, laboratories and equipment). Thus, the association with ESAD.CR (IPL) consolidates fundamental areas such as Ceramics, Animation Cinema, Drawing, Sculpture, Film, Photography, Engraving and Painting, and opens access to the respective specialized technical workshops. On the other hand, the association to the IPP Schools consolidates fundamental areas such as Sound Arts and Music Technologies, Dance and Theatre (ESMAE) and also Documentary Cinema (ESMAD), also opening the access to the spaces and laboratories related to these areas.

O DECA of the University of Aveiro has a distinctive role in the preparation of its post-graduate students in the areas of contemporary Artistic Creation, Design and Music. Both at the UA and at the partner institutions of this cycle of studies, classes in the various above referred contexts will be guaranteed by artists, professionals, researchers and teachers of recognized national and international merit; thus, students will have a unique opportunity to study artistic creation in an environment of academic and professional excellence. The created network of institutions and teachers and the structure of the study plan allows a form of teaching-learning, supervision and customised research anchored in facilities, technical workshops and various research centers that will contribute to a unique intellectual and creative environment nationally and internationally.

Programme Coordinator

Jorge Manuel Salgado de Castro Correia
jcorreia@ua.pt

The course aims at the advanced training of specialists and researchers in the field of Art Studies and the creation of a shared space for artistic experimentation and research, effectively transdisciplinary in order to:

  1. Generate new knowledge from artistic creation that allows new approaches to reality and reinvent knowledge in a context of diverse cultural and natural resources on global and local scales;
  2. To contribute to creativity, critical thinking and the ability to work in transdisciplinary contexts, allowing the generation of hybrid forms of knowledge based on practice;
  3. To consolidate the notion of Creative Thinking as a sensitive epistemic, critical and experimental reflection of the poietic-poetic process of artistic production, work, the body of works, practices and other singular derivations, which are part of the artistic and life experience of the doctoral student.

The course aims at the advanced training of specialists and researchers in the field of Art Studies and the creation of a shared space for artistic experimentation and research, effectively transdisciplinary in order to:

  1. Generate new knowledge from artistic creation that allows new approaches to reality and reinvent knowledge in a context of diverse cultural and natural resources on global and local scales;
  2. To contribute to creativity, critical thinking and the ability to work in transdisciplinary contexts, allowing the generation of hybrid forms of knowledge based on practice;
  3. To consolidate the notion of Creative Thinking as a sensitive epistemic, critical and experimental reflection of the poietic-poetic process of artistic production, work, the body of works, practices and other singular derivations, which are part of the artistic and life experience of the doctoral student.

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Cientifc field

Arts and Design

At the end of this course, PhD Art Studies graduates will be able to:

  • develop skills in analysis, reflection, experimentation and critical, poietic and poetic transformation of the trainee’s artistic production;
  • to configure a ‘corpus of work’ that allows new artistic productions and their singular modes of writing;
  • to develop research-action-participation projects in different scales of the territory;
  • to develop participatory and inclusive projects socially adapted to the public agenda on the environment (material and immaterial heritage).
Course Type:
PHD Artistic Creation

Study Plan

1. Year
Curricular Unit Period ECTS Length
1S 10 60 h

This CU is organised in three parts with specific contents, namely:
part 1 > Epistemological foundations (subjectivity and intersubjectivity; art, communication and aesthetic appreciation; artistic creation as production of knowledge).
part 2 > Modes of knowledge and discursive modes (introduction to critical thinking; academic writing; creative writing; sources of information; bibliographical references; reading and revision sheets)
part 3 > Methodologies and Methods (structuring, problematics, objectives and methods)
1S 20 60 h
  • Art and Media Laboratory

P1 Media art without media and intermedia: Materials and subjects of contemporary art;
P2 Drawing, animation, ceramics, sculpture, painting, photography, film and video – deepening and innovative applications of technologies in an intermedia perspective.
P3 Conceptualization, experimentation, analysis, implementation and reflection of collaborative artistic project;
P4 Appreciation and critical discussion of artistic practices, as well as artistic research projects;
P5 Specificities of transdisciplinary work – understanding and exploring the links between their research and other disciplines.
P6 Broadening the visual and poetic universe of the Media Arts: Subjective, Physical Space, and Networks of Circulation versus Social, Political and Ethical Space;
P7 The ‘utility’ of contemporary art: shared space of disciplinary contours, from contemporary arts and debates on societal challenges in their training and research agendas.

  • Performing Arts Laboratory

P1 – Expansion of the performer’s poetic universe: Space and Time; Impulse and Decision; Concentration and Availability;
P2 – Conceptualization, experimentation, analysis, implementation and reflection around the collaborative artistic project;
P3 – Shared discussion on the concepts of validity, reliability and generalizability applied to ongoing projects and artistic research in general;
P4 – Appreciation and critical discussion about artistic practices and artistic research projects;
P5 – Specificities of transdisciplinary work; Understanding and exploring the links between their individual research and other disciplines.
2S 30 65 h

This CU is organised into five parts with specific contents, namely:
P1 – Optimising collaborative work (mobilising stakeholders, creating partnerships and entrepreneurship).
P2 – Introduction to strategic development tools (Why do? What to do? How to do?)
P3 – Project organisation and rationale of its relevance
P4 – Academic skills of project presentation
P5 – Communication strategies for written and oral presentation of projects
2. Year
Curricular Unit Period ECTS Length
Anual 60 30 h

In this CU students will apply the knowledge acquired in the 1st year, in particular the programmatic contents of MIA and PIA. The specific contents of each individual work will be defined according to its particular features: each Thesis or Artistic Creation Project will be accompanied by a team of teachers specialized in the areas that will be crossed during the transdisciplinary path of its development.
3. Year
Curricular Unit Period ECTS Length
Anual 60 30 h

In this CU students will apply the knowledge acquired in the 1st year, in particular the programmatic contents of MIA and PIA. The specific contents of each individual work will be defined according to its particular features: each Thesis or Artistic Creation Project will be accompanied by a team of teachers specialized in the areas that will be crossed during the transdisciplinary path of its development.

Academic Year

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The course aims at the advanced training of specialists and researchers in the field of Art Studies and the creation of a shared space for artistic experimentation and research, effectively transdisciplinary in order to:

  1. Generate new knowledge from artistic creation that allows new approaches to reality and reinvent knowledge in a context of diverse cultural and natural resources on global and local scales;
  2. To contribute to creativity, critical thinking and the ability to work in transdisciplinary contexts, allowing the generation of hybrid forms of knowledge based on practice;
  3. To consolidate the notion of Creative Thinking as a sensitive epistemic, critical and experimental reflection of the poietic-poetic process of artistic production, work, the body of works, practices and other singular derivations, which are part of the artistic and life experience of the doctoral student.

Candidates who have:

  • Master level degree, or legal equivalent, in any artistic area, or other scientific area when accompanied by high level academic skills in any artistic area;
  • Foreign higher education degree in any artistic area awarded on completion of a 2nd cycle study programme organised in accordance with the principles of the Bologna Process by a State adhering to this process;
  • Foreign higher education degree in any artistic area recognised as satisfying the objectives of the Master degree by the scientifically and statutorily competent body.


The Scientific Council of the University of Aveiro can admit applicants proposed by the Director of the Study Cycle who do not meet the conditions specified above but whose academic, scientific, professional and/or artistic curriculum reveal an adequate preparation for frequenting the programme.

International student
E-mail: estudante.internacional@ipleiria.pt

Investement

Tuition Fees

For further information, please refer to the programme notice.

Applications

Applications for the Doctorate in Artistic Creation are submitted through the University of Aveiro Platform.

paco.ua.pt/Applications