Course detail

New Mediality - summer

FaVU-3NOME-LAcad. year: 2011/2012

The course focuses on the theory of multimedia, intermedia, cyberculture, and digital media. It introduces students to current ideas and terminology connected with the issues of intermedia, multimedia artistic expression, forms, and strategies in the given field. It laso deals with social changes influenced by electronic technologies and by new media as an independent area both of practices and theory. The course deals with collaborative nature of intermedia and multimedia art, it shows the social context of groups functioning both on institutional and informal basis. It deals with mutual interaction of new media, technology, society, and their impact on perception and on their social context.

Language of instruction

Czech

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The course provides orientation in the shperes of art, culture, digital technologies, and current information and commucation technologies both in their general and social dimension.

Prerequisites

None

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations..

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Exam.

Course curriculum

The theoretical discourse is based on examples from audiovisual culture history perceived from the perspectives of science, technology, and visual art.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

An overview of the theory and history of the intermedia artwork concept.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Lectures, tutorials.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Huhtamo, Erkki, Od kybernetizace k interakci, Teorie vědy 13, č.2, s. 5-24.
Practices of looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture, Marita Sturken, Lisa Cartwright, Oxford University Press

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme VUD Doctoral

    branch UMVP_DP , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme VUD Doctoral

    branch , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

13 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer