When you are talking about study programs, it is very important to be able to take into account not only what one has to study
and the knowledge that can be acquired, but also to be critical about the real relationship with the reality and work context
that they are going to have later, since detecting certain shortcomings in the academic area can help to look for alternative
knowledge elsewhere.
In my case, I am studying Visual Arts, I am in my third year of the 5 that the degree lasts, and for example this semeste
r I am taking photography as a specialty workshop, I am continuing with drawing and I chose a programming workshop,
among others. The problem that I can observe in my study program is that there is no specialization or courses on video-art,
which is a subject that I want to develop in depth and for that reason I chose to find out on my part, although photography is
close to the area, but It is not the same, since it requires a lot of practical work and experimentation. The methods that my
teachers use are quite good since it is always considering the tastes of the students and with revision every week, but it
is a lot of theoretical work since we are in online classes (we have a session of 2 hours a week for each course of this
semester) and there is not so much instance which they can help me in the creation process.
The place in which I am studying (Las Encinas) is a space that has a lot of equipment and tools for the different specialties,
for my workshop there is a studio for photography sessions, but there are no tools to learn about video or recording in
general. Among the equipment they have there are flashs, backdrops, connecting cables, among others. And in the analog
photography room there is a dark room, enlargers, a room to develop, red light, I think it is a fairly complete place for this
theme.
