Course: New media theory I

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Course title New media theory I
Course code KDT/FU043
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 2
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 1
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Svejkovský Zdeněk, MgA. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Introductory lesson (brief summary of concepts, acquaintance with the course of teaching). 2. New media in general (theoretical approaches, history, authors, digital literacy). 3. New media in art (problems of the concept and its development). 4. Moving image I (film, experimental film, history, author's film). 5. Moving Image II (from film essay to video essay, contemporary video essayism). 6. Moving image III (mobile, internet, YouTube, current trends in moving image consumption, etc.). 7. Video art I (from video camera to digital era, history, authors). 8. Video art II (today's position of video art, film in the gallery, authors). 9. Game art I (game studies, history of video games). 10. Game art II (game studies, commercial production of video games versus indie games). 11. Game art III (computer game in the gallery, authors, game activism). 12.-13. Sound art I (history, from the electric period through the magnetic period to the digital age).

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
A series of lectures and exercises focusing on new media issues. Students will get acquainted with both theory and important new media works of art, across individual areas (Video art, Sound art, Net art, Postinternet art, Game art, Bio art, etc.). In addition to the historical context and the list of authors, the lectures are also open to areas of new media theory, where the aim will be to present current theoretical works, manifestos, mention essential theorists and artists.
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
Attendance
Recommended literature
  • BENDOVÁ Helena. Umění počítačových her. NAMU, 2017.
  • Bordwell, David; Thompsonová, Kristin. Umění filmu, Úvod do studia formy a stylu. AMU Praha, 2011.
  • CAGE, John. Silence: přednášky a texty. Tranzit, Praha, 2010. ISBN 978-80-87259-07-8.
  • DEUZE, Mark. Media life: Život v médiích. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2015. ISBN 978-80-246-2815-8.
  • FLORIDI, Luciano. Čtvrtá revoluce. Jak infosféra mění tvář lidské reality.. Karolinum, 2019.
  • JANOŠČÍK, Václav (ed.). Objekt. Kvalitář, s. r. o. Praha, 2015.
  • Kholeif, Omar. You Are Here: Art After the Internet.. Cornerhouse Publications Ltd., 2014. ISBN 978-0-9569571-7-7.
  • MANOVICH, Lev. Jazyk nových médií. Karolinum, Praha, 2018. ISBN 978-80-246-2961-2.
  • MEIXNEROVÁ, Marie. . # mm net art / Internetové umění ve virtuálním a fyzickém prostoru prezentace. Pastiche Filmz, Olomouc, V rámci Edice PAF, 2014. ISBN 978-80-87662-06-9.
  • Paul, Ch. Digital Art. Thames & Hudson, 2015.
  • QUARANTA, Domenico. AFK Texts on Artists 2011-2016. Link Editions, Brescia, 2016.
  • Quaranta, Domenico. Beyond New Media Art. San Francisco, California: LiNK Editions, Brescia, 2013. ISBN 978-1-291-37697-5.
  • RUSH, M. New Media in Art. Londýn, Thames & Hudson, 2005.
  • WEIBEL, Peter. Sound art: Sound as a Medium of Art. MIT Press, 2019. ISBN 9780262029667.


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