Course detail
Digital culture
FaVU-3DIKUAcad. year: 2018/2019
Digital and net media will be primarily looked upon as programmed (and programming) media whose cultural context cannot be reduced to related characteristics with other modern media (print, photography, fiml).
Supervisor
Department
Learning outcomes of the course unit
Theoretical knowledge of "software studies", methodology of new media and digital works of art.
Prerequisites
None.
Co-requisites
Not applicable.
Recommended optional programme components
Not applicable.
Recommended or required reading
Heslo: Software studies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_studies
Heslo: Software studies: http://monoskop.org/Software_studies
Inke ARNS, Read_me, run_me, execute_me. Code as Executable Text: Software Art and its Focus on Program Code as Performative Text. in: Rudolf Frieling / Dieter Daniels (Hg.), Medien Kunst Netz 2: Thematische Schwerpunkte, Springer Wien/New York 2005, ISBN: 3211238719, S. 177-193 (dt.), S. 197-207 (engl.). Dostupné on-line: http://www.mediaartnet.org/themes/generative-tools/read_me/scroll/
Ian BOGOST – Nick MONTFORT, Platform Studies. Dostupné on-line: http://platformstudies.com/
Florian CRAMER, Words Made Flash. Code, Culture, Imagination. Dostupné on-line: http://www.netzliteratur.net/cramer/wordsmadefleshpdf.pdf
Florian CRAMER – Ulrike GABRIEL, Software Art. 2001. Dostupné on-line: http://www.netzliteratur.net/cramer/software_art_-_transmediale.html
Florian CRAMER, Concepts, Notations, Software, Art. 2002. Dostupné on-line: http://www.netzliteratur.net/cramer/concepts_notations_software_art.html
Tomáš DVOŘÁK (ed.), Kapitoly z dějin a teorie médií. Praha: VVP AVU, 2011.
Matthew FULLER (ed.), Software Studies \ a Lexicon. MIT Press: Cambridge – London, 2008.
Jana HORÁKOVÁ, K recepci informatiky v kontextu společenských věd: Obrat k softwaru. In Hana Klímová – Dana Kuželová – Jiří Šíma – Jiří Wiedermann – Stanislav Žák. Hovory s informatiky. 1. vyd. Praha: Ústav informatiky AV ČR, v.v.i., 2011, s. 117–135.
Friedrich KITTLER, There is No Software. 1995. Dostupné on-line: http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=74
Lev MANOVICH, There is Only Software. 2008. Dostupné on-line: http://manovich.net/index.php/projects/there-is-only-software
Lev MANOVICH, Cultural Analytics. 2007. Dostupné on-line: http://www.manovich.net/cultural_analytics.pdf
Mark C. MARINO, Critical Code Studies. 2006. Dostupné on-line: http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/electropoetics/codology
Graeme PHILIPSON, A Short History of Software. 2004. Dostupné on-line: http://www.thecorememory.com/SHOS.pdf
Domenico QARANTA, Media, New Media, Postmedia. Postmedia Books 2010.
Noah WARDRIP-FRUIN, Expressive Processing. Digital Fiction, Computer Games, and Software Studies. Cambridge – London: MIT Press, 2009.
Jana HORÁKOVÁ, Softwarová studia. K proměnám studií nových médií. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2014.
Jana HORÁKOVÁ, New Media Art Power: The Hackability Memorandum. Kritika & kontext, časopis kritického myslenia/Journal of Critical Thinking, Bratislava: Občianske združenie K&K Association, XVI., 44, 2012, s. 86–93.
Jana HORÁKOVÁ, Konec dějin nových digitálních médií: Softwarová studia. In Umění a nová média. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2011. od s. 156–179, 24 s. Umění a nová média. ISBN 978-80-210-5639-8. doi:10.5817/CZ.MUNI.M210-5639-2011.
Jana HORÁKOVÁ, Úvod do softwarových studií, 2014. On-line: http://is.muni.cz/do/rect/el/estud/ff/ps14/software/web/index.html
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Doctoral exam.
Language of instruction
Czech
Work placements
Not applicable.
Course curriculum
1] Software studies. Critical studies of the code. Platforms.
2. Bad media studies. Introoduction.
3. Genealogy of the software (turn).
4. Digital work of art - definition.
5. Methodology of new media - freedom tactics.
6. Hacking as artistic strategy, software art (vs. computer art) and net art.
Aims
Students will study a collection of elementary texts, cultural and artistic practices which share the approach to digital media based on the shift of attention from the screen surface to processes taking place behid it, that is, the image of software.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Lectures are mandatory.
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme VUD Doctoral
branch VUUP_DP4 , 2. year of study, winter semester, 0 credits, compulsory
- Programme VUD Doctoral
branch VUUP_DK3 , 2. year of study, winter semester, 0 credits, compulsory
- Programme VUD Doctoral
branch VUUP_DP3 , 2. year of study, winter semester, 0 credits, compulsory
- Programme VUD Doctoral
branch VUUP_DK4 , 2. year of study, winter semester, 0 credits, compulsory
Type of course unit
eLearning
eLearning: opened course