Course detail
New Media Art 1
FaVU-2USIM-IAcad. year: 2019/2020
The new media art will be presented in this course in the historical perspective, from the point of view of its main forms (media), and related concepts, aesthetics, and poetics.
Supervisor
Learning outcomes of the course unit
After completing the course, student will be able to:
- Define new media art;
- Describe relations between historical avant-guard art and new media art;
- Identify and characterise periods of new media art development;
- Distinguish different kinds of new media art, to determine their location on the timeline of new media art, and to assign the most important authors and works to them;
- List the specific themes of new media art.
Prerequisites
An interest in new media art and the ability to read scholarly texts in English.
Co-requisites
Not applicable.
Recommended optional programme components
Not applicable.
Recommended or required reading
REENA, Jana –TRIBE, Mark: New Media Art. Taschen, 2009. (CS)
MARTIN, Sylvia: Video Art. Taschen, 1992. (CS)
PAUL, Christiane: Digital art. Thames & Hudson, 2003. (CS)
RUSH, Michael. New Media in Late 20th Century Art. Thames & Hudson, 1999. (CS)
FRIELING, R.; DANIELS, D.: Media Kunst Netz / Media Art Net. Vídeň-New York: Springer, 2004. (CS)
WARDRIP-FRUIN, N. a kol. (eds.): The New Media Reader. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. (CS)
MANOVICH, Lev: Avant Garde as Software. Lev Manovich Official Website. 1999. Dostupné on-line:
http://manovich.net/index.php/projects/avant-garde-as-software
(CS)
DUNN, D. – VASULKA, W. – VASULKA, S. (ed.): EIGENWELT DER APPARATE – WELT, Pioneers of Electronic Art. Linz: Ars Electronica, 1992. (CS)
MEIXNEROVÁ, Marie (ed.) #mm net art – internetové umění ve virtuálním a fyzickém prostoru prezentace. Olomouc: Pastiche Filmz, 2014. (CS)
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Reading - homeworks.
Lectures, class discussions, presentations.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Attendance (50 %). Participation in class discussions. Submission of determined texts’s summaries.
Final written test: The test consists of 20 questions. 50 % correct answers is needed to pass.
Language of instruction
Czech
Work placements
Not applicable.
Course curriculum
- New media art: definition and periodization;
- Modern art as new media art;
- Avant-guarde as software;
- Computer Art (60s);
- Video art (70s);
- Expanded cinema (70s);
- Cyber art and interactive instalations (80s);
- Virtual art (80s);
- Net art and hactivism (90s);
- Software art (2000);
- Post-internet art.
Aims
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the new media art as a specific area of modern and postmodern art, situated at the intersection of computer technology and technical media trajectories of development.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Attendance is mandatory (50 %).
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme VUM Master's
branch VU-D , 1. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch VU-D , 1. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch VU-D , 1. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch VU-VT , 1. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch VU-VT , 1. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch VU-VT , 1. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch VU-VT , 1. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch VU-VT , 1. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch VU-VT , 1. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch VU-IDT , 1. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch VU-IDT , 1. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch VU-IDT , 1. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch VU-IDT , 1. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch VU-IDT , 1. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch VU-IDT , 1. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch VU-IDT , 1. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch VU-D , 2. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch VU-D , 2. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch VU-D , 2. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch VU-VT , 2. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch VU-VT , 2. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch VU-VT , 2. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch VU-VT , 2. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch VU-VT , 2. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch VU-VT , 2. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch VU-IDT , 2. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch VU-IDT , 2. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch VU-IDT , 2. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch VU-IDT , 2. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch VU-IDT , 2. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch VU-IDT , 2. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch VU-IDT , 2. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
Type of course unit
eLearning
eLearning: currently opened course