Course detail

Inventing Ecological Media Arts

FaVU-1IEMA-LAcad. year: 2019/2020

Nowadays, ecology and environmental issues seem to be highly on the agenda of the arts. What are the current tendencies in media arts related to this?

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Gue Van Belle

Department

Video Studio (AVI)

Offered to foreign students

Of all faculties

Learning outcomes of the course unit

a discussion at the end of the course identifying trends in current thinking and concepts about making art

Prerequisites

beginners: critical thinking and an interest in contemporary art
advanced: do recycling of garbage at home and read some popular articles about ecology and environmentalism
professionals: relate their own disciplinary knowledge to new ways of perceiving the world today

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Consultations and lectures.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

show critical awareness in the form of an original contribution to the discussion (as an assessment) mentioned above, in the form of a text, a talk or an art work

Course curriculum

notes, some references to articles and publications online;
introduction and explanation of general terms, ideas, concepts specific issues from art history (1950-today) historical and contemporary examples from the arts ecological ways of perceiving the audio and visual within the arts concepts and ideas, small studies together with the students presentation, discussion, and group evaluation

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

See the abstract: to get insight into new trends within media art

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

attendance is required for the students, a tentative email list will be made, so that follow ups are possible

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Guattari, the 3 ecologies
JJ Gibson, The ecology of visual perception
Juliet M. Corbin and Anselm C. Strauss, Basics of Qualitative Research
Kathy Charmaz, Constructing Grounded Theory Kathy Charmaz Constructing Grounded Theory Kathy Charmaz Constructing Grounded Theory
Keller & Golley, the philosophy of ecology
Robert Smithson, Collected writings

Type of course unit

Seminar

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Gue Van Belle

VUT

Faculties

University Institutes

Parts

Inventing Ecological Media Arts

Type of course unit