Course: Digital Media and Contemporary Art

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Course title Digital Media and Contemporary Art
Course code KDT/825
Organizational form of instruction no contact
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 0
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Kořínek David, prof. doc. Mgr.
Course content
These informations are in the annotation of the course.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The thematic area focused on digital media in visual arts examines the relation between the physical and the cybernetic spaces. Their mutual penetration influences perception of the present environment and interconnects or develops a number of interdisciplinary branches. At the intersection of these interfaces, we can see a space for art, communication, experiment, but also for conflict and collision. In their thesis, the doctoral student performs research on both theoretical and artistic levels, in which they evaluate consequences of digitalization in the global and information-oriented society.
The gained capabilities constitute an encompassment and an aquirement of knowledge and experience in the given field of study, they result from a concrete annotation of the subject and are aimed at a profile´s fulfilment of the graduate of the given field of study.
Prerequisites
Successful completion of the previous study

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Exam Colloquium
Recommended literature
  • Bourriaud, N. Altermodern. Tate, London, 2009.
  • BOURRIAUD, N. Postprodukce. Praha: Tranzit, 2004. ISBN 80-903452-0-4.
  • CORNELL, L; HALTER, E. (eds.). Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century. The MIT Press, 2015.
  • Dvořák, T. Epistemiologie (nových) médií. NAMU, 2019.
  • Kholeif, Omar. You Are Here: Art After the Internet.. Cornerhouse Publications Ltd., 2014. ISBN 978-0-9569571-7-7.
  • Magid, V. Ozvěny špatného smíchu. Postinternetové umění a kulturní průmysl. In: Sešit pro umění a příbuzné zóny 17. VVP AVU.
  • Manovich, L. Jazyk nových médií. Praha: Karolinum, 2018. ISBN 978-80-246-2961-2.
  • VIERKANT, A. Objekt obrazu po internetu. In: Sešit pro umění a příbuzné zóny 17. VVP AVU.


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