Course detail

Aesthetic Theory of Multimedia

FaVU-IM086Acad. year: 2011/2012

The course presents an introduction to multimedia issues in wider contexts of media and artistic manefests and their particular applications.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Mgr. Richard Fajnor

Department

Faculty of Fine Arts (FaVU)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The knowledge of the multimedia problematics, beginning with Richard Wagner, going through Italian Futurism, intermedia concepts, and personalities up to the present.

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

Test.

Course curriculum

Multimedia - definitional approaches.
Richard Wagner and the Artwork of the future - form vs. content
Space - time - order
italian futurism and the aesthetics of media
architecture as a mltimedia form
intermedia concept of Dick Higgins
Nam June Paik . art as communication
John Cage: interpretation, communication, resignation. Alea acta est: music as hypertext.
The aesthetics of an open artrwork and its application.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Introduction to multimedia.

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

lectures are optional

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Iannis Xenakis, Sharon Kanach, Music and Architecture, 2008
Randall Packer , Ken Jordan , William Gibson - From Wagner to Virtual Reality, 2001

Type of course unit

Lecture

338 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Mgr. Richard Fajnor

Syllabus

Estetické teorie multimédií

VUT

Faculties

University Institutes

Parts

Aesthetic Theory of Multimedia

Type of course unit