The blocked course „Introduction to Visual Culture” (formerly Architecture and Art History 2) offers an introduction to the various subject areas, methods and debates in the field of visual culture. Particular attention is paid to theoretical and historical questions that are relevant in the course of architecture studies.
In addition to a general introduction to questions of representation, visuality and picture theory, the course looks into three conceptual areas: bodies, spaces and media. The examination of individual sites and phenomena of visual culture ranges from early image technologies such as the panorama and the diorama to digital portals such as Instagram and Snapchat, and from visual performance in the cinema, museum and theater to the performative dynamics of skateboarding, graffiti and parkour.
Venice Beach, Los Angeles (Photo: Peter Mörtenböck)
lectures, presentations, audiovisual media, discussions
Changes in this course due to the corona pandemic (information as of 1 March 2021):
For further updates, please see the German version of this course.
Reading material (in German only) has been made available via the course's TUWEL site. Dates for written exams (in German only) will be announced via TISS.
TEXTE
*Bände verfügbar in der Hauptbibliothek der Technischen Universität Wien
- Iain Borden: ‚Stadt sprechen – Skateboarding and the City‘, in P. Mörtenböck & H. Mooshammer (Hg.): Visuelle Kultur: körper – räume - medien. Wien, Köln und Weimar: Böhlau Verlag 2003*
- Lee Rodney: ‚Farrah Fawcett’s Birthday Suit‘, in P. Mörtenböck & H. Mooshammer (Hg.): Visuelle Kultur: körper – räume – medien. Wien, Köln und Weimar: Böhlau Verlag 2003*
- Peter Mörtenböck & Helge Mooshammer: ‚Informal Market Worlds: Instruments of Change‘, SCAPEGOAT: Architecture | Landscape | Political Economy 04,2013. Online: http://www.scapegoatjournal.org/docs/04/04_Mortenbock_Mooshammer_InformalMarketWorlds.pdf
- Irit Rogoff: ‚Unbounded’, in P. Mörtenböck & H. Mooshammer (Hg.): Networked Cultures: Parallel architectures and the politics of space. Rotterdam: NAi Publishers 2008*
- Peter Mörtenböck & Helge Mooshammer: ‚Initiative Kunst’, in Dies.: Occupy: Räume des Protests. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag 2012*
- Anna Schober: ‚Close-Ups in der Kinostadt‘, in P. Mörtenböck & H. Mooshammer /Hg.): Visuelle Kultur: körper – räume – medien. Wien, Köln und Weimar: Böhlau Verlag 2003*
DOKUMENTARFILME
- Bata-Ville – We are not afraid of the future (dir. by Karen Guthrie & Nina Pope, 2005)
- Jump London (Channel 4 documentary, dir. by Mike Christie, 2003)
- Caracas: The Informal City (dir. by Rob Schröder with Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner, 2008)
- What is Democracy? (dir. by Oliver Ressler, 2009)
