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un-titled Gallery Art Courses How to use philosophical ideas for developing intriguing Concepts for Art & Design projects.
Length of seminar	8 weeks of 2 hour sessions (reference text will be provided) Course commencing on 1 Sept 05 and 3 Nov 05
Course Fees	S$ 240 per person (Contact us for special group rates)
Objectives	Having problems coming up with intriguing concepts for your art or design project ? This seminar seeks to help participants use philosophical ideas as strategies for conceptualizing and making art and design.
Participants will be introduced to: Philosophical ideas and relating them to art and design Use and develop these ideas into intriguing concepts for the art or design project Use and develop these ideas into art making and design strategies The notion of Concept and Meta-concept for their project Develop a personal art or design philosophy The seminar will be conducted by informal discussion and lecture led by the course facilitator surrounding a particular primary text that seek to illuminate the topic of the week. The participants have the option to read the primary text for the week's discussion or to just participate in the discussion.
Week 1	The Ethics and Poetics of Art, Design and the Creative Imagination, Introduction
Week 2	A diagnosis of modern culture and the human condition from the standpoint of western philosophy. The limitation of Technology as world view for Art and Design. Text - Heidegger, Martin, The Question concerning Technology in Basic Writings, VII.
Week 3	Introduction to Phenomenology and Hermeneutics as strategies for Art and Design Text - Gadamer, Hans-Georg, Hermeneutics as Practical Philosophy , in Reason in the Age of Science, p88 Gadamer, Hans-Georg, Hermeneutics as a Theoretical and Practical Task , in Reason in the Age of Science, p113 Merleau-Ponty, Preface in Phenomenology of Perception
Week 4	The Relevance of the Beautiful for Art and Design Text - Gadamer, Hans Georg, The Relevance of the Beautiful
Week 5	The Origin of the Work of Art Text - Heidegger, Martin, The Origin of the Work of Art , in Poetry, Language, Thought Heidegger, Martin, Poetically Man Dwells , in Poetry, Language, Thought
Week 6	Art & Design Narrating Life Text - Ricoeur, Paul, The Function of Fiction in Shaping Reality , in A Ricoeur Reader: Reflection & Imagination, p 117. Ricoeur, Paul, Life: A Story in Search of a Narrator , in A Ricoeur Reader: Reflection & Imagination, p 117. Ricoeur, Paul, Architecture and Narrative , 1976.
Week 7	Art, History and Authenticity Text - Benjamin, Walter, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction , in Illumination, p219. Nietzsche, Friedrich, On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life, in Untimely Meditations.
Week 8	Art & Design, Accomplished Nihilism and The Question of Post-Modernity Text - Vattimo, Gianni, Introduction by translator, Jon R. Snyder in The End of Modernity. Vattimo, Gianni, An apology for Nihilism in The End of Modernity Meister Eckhart, Meister Eckhart, from Whom God Hid Nothing Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of Understanding Thich Nhat Hanh, The Diamond that cuts through Illusion Wu, John C.H., Lin-chi I-hsuan in The Golden Age of Zen, p143.