REFORM OF THE BACHELOR'S PROGRAM IN FINE ARTS 
The Department of Visual Arts is currently undertaking a reform of the Bachelor’s program that aims to strengthen its pedagogical coherence, to improve the clarity of the curriculum, and to enhance its alignment with current visual art practices and the realities of professional environments. This restructuring, organized around four new options, affirms the rootedness of multiple practices while preserving the intermediality that characterizes the different fields of contemporary art. It also relies on a repositioning of the options, conceived in relation to types of production as well as spaces and modes of dissemination.

The Bachelor’s programme of the Visual Arts Department at HEAD – Genève is structured around four options, offering a dynamic curriculum conceived as a laboratory for experimentation. Teaching is based on a wide range of formats that combine practice and theoretical reflection, providing students with the tools to position themselves in relation to the issues and realities of the contemporary art world. The programme brings together demanding theoretical and practical courses, as well as specialised transdisciplinary classes. These are enriched by contributions from internationally renowned guests — artists, theorists and curators — as well as by workshops, lectures, seminars, off-campus projects, institutional commissions and cultural partnerships. This openness encourages engagement with a variety of contexts and supports a pedagogy rooted in the current realities of the art field, while also questioning its developments and transformations.

CHROMA 
The CHROMA option focuses on the practices of painting and drawing, inviting students to develop independent thinking and a singular artistic practice. It is organised around the studio, the central place where the personal project is developed and where students acquire the tools needed to situate their work within the contemporary art world and to articulate a critical reflection on their own practice. Painting and drawing enter into dialogue with other media, such as publishing. Experimentation with spatial display, hanging, presentation and collective exhibitions is also part of the skills developed in this option.

DRAMA
The DRAMA option is dedicated to performative practices and the activation of the body in space. Students explore what is at stake through the body: language, identity, social relations and technologies. The option encourages critical reflection and taking a position through individual and collective forms of action. In the studio and through workshops, students experiment with performance tools and techniques, as well as with methods for producing images, sounds, texts and installations in a variety of contexts.

MATERIA
The MATERIA option is devoted to practices of sculpture, installation and the object in space. It invites students to experiment with different materials (wood, metal, ceramics, etc.) and to create objects, assemblages and spatial devices.
The personal project is developed both in the studio and through projects carried out outside the school, in public space or in exhibition venues. Collective work plays a central role, as does reflection on the cultural, social and political dimensions of the constructed object in space.

PRISMA
The PRISMA option explores the media of video and photography. It offers a space for experimenting with the tools and techniques of visual and sound-based creation in relation to moving image, sound, and editing. In the studio and in workshops, students learn to build visual and multimedia narratives, as well as to engage with devices such as artificial intelligence or social media from a creative and critical perspective. The option encourages the development of a personal language by exploring the relationships between documentation and fiction, autobiography and archive.
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