The core studio course - Multimedia - covers the new media disciplines and represents that form of fine art which use the artist's own body, photography, video, computers, or other electronic or analog media for the recording, transfer, storage, and mediation of images and sounds. The course includes the forms of performance, object art, virtual or physical installation - all focusing directly on the creative act which is an interdisciplinary expression in time and space. Students develop experience from practical courses and connect it with their theoretical knowledge of technologies. The are given individual tasks which they fulfill according to their individual capacities.
Students will gain general knowledge in the divrse field of new media art; they will get to know selected technological, philosophical, and aesthetic problems of multimedia art practice and theory. They will be given tasks such as> a) Net.art. history, artists, aesthetics, contemporary practices
b) Social contexts of artistic practice, relational aesthetics, subversivity in art, tactical media and the internet
During the winter semester, we will focus on the real-time audio and video performace, its history, technology, and contemporary trends. The other artistic genre on which the course focuses is sonic arts - sonic obejcts, installation, and performance.