BA (Hons) Fine Art and History of Art Bachelor's degree at Goldsmiths, University of London

The module will introduce you to Art Historical and scholarly methodologies that centre critical thinking, social justice, racial equity, and decoloniality through the theme of Modernity. You will explore the meanings of 'Modernity' relating to time, change, progress, technology, industrialisation, rationalisation, coloniality, protest, and silence, and you will also consider the social, technological, political, economic and cultural aspects that Modernity may have. You will examine how art and

In this module, you'll consider how modern and contemporary visual practices incorporate questions of space and time and how different media spatialise and temporalise cultural experiences and social meanings. You'll explore visual practices and the space and time in which they are produced and encountered so as to examine their cultural, social, and political horizons. You'll look at the ways in which an engagement with space and time potentially reconfigures the relation between cultural pract

Link Workshops and Seminars are devised and coordinated by Fine Art and History of Art Programme Leaders. Through workshops and seminars, you will explore the interaction of practice, theory, critical creative methodologies, and curatorial and visual cultures strategies to develop your understanding of how practice and theory intermingle in practitioners' work. Link Workshops and Seminars are aimed at enhancing your critical vocabulary, inventing new ways of thinking about the inter-relationship

This module explores the provocative and fraught encounters feminist and queer politics have with science and technology in the 20th and 21st centuries. Drawing on key texts, we will: Consider intersectional interventions into the histories of science, technology, and digital media. Study the biopolitical co-construction and co-evolution of the body with technology, focusing upon figures of the cyborg, post-human, transgender body, and molecular body. Engage the militarised, ideological, and soc

Emancipating Images and Sounds investigates critical practices of the cinema from the 1950s onwards. You will examine how these practices have opened up different avenues of political and aesthetic experimentation by analysing key ideas, methods, problems and inventions. You will study key cases emerging from fields such as film avant-gardes, feminist counter-cinemas, third cinemas, proletarian and queer cinemas to imagine other possibilities for the moving image and for the spectators in terms

This module will offer a new angle on the debates about modernism and postmodernism. It will position the concept of popular modernism as an alternative to 'high' modernism and to post-modernism. It will show that, especially during the period 1950-1985, many techniques and approaches pioneered in modernism were not only disseminated but also extended and transformed in popular contexts. You will explore connections, lines of influence and resonances coming out of theory, visual art, literature,

Inhabitations considers artistic creativity's historical and contemporary connection to private or personal space and place. This is accomplished by concentrating on two main strands: Ideologies of home - in terms of its modernist and poetical dimensions, with reference to design but with emphasis placed on fine art practices that engage with these dimensions; socio-political issues such as human rights, justice and the division of labour are also addressed through masculinised and feminised mod

The question of seeing and its relationship to perception has been posited in many different ways within discourses of philosophy, art history and visual cultures. Patterns of Perception brings together key sources across these disciplines to introduce theories of embodied perception, vision and image that have provided important models for artistic practice, cultural criticism and the theorisation of media and technology. Taking the philosophical tradition of phenomenology as a starting point,

Animating Architecture explores significant movements in architecture and urban design from the mid-19th Century to the present day. You will be invited to consider the history of modern and contemporary architecture as a complex political problematic one that is 'animated' by the contingent and dynamic social processes which shape urban space. We begin by looking at the crystallisation of the theory of the 'modern' city in the context of a wider project to choreograph the technological forces a