Course: New Media I

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Course title New Media I
Course code KFO/813
Organizational form of instruction Lesson
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Frequency of the course Each academic year
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction unspecified
Work placements unspecified
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Mrkus Pavel, doc. Mgr.A.
  • Khatsenka Polina, MgA.
Course content
These informations are in the annotation of the course.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
A cycle of free presentations, demonstrations and practical seminars in which students of the Master's programme of study get acquainted with new forms of artistic creation. Specific artworks by established artists (from the sphere of new installation and new object creation, video art, digital photography, net.art, etc.) are analyzed here on both the technological and theoretical levels, and then put in the current artistic context. Based on this confrontation, students create concepts of artistic projects, in which the authors try to apply the acquired knowledge to their own creative outputs. 1. New media art (introductory lecture, brief summary of terms, definition of new media, assigning topics of papers). 2. Moving picture (general history, origin of the film, present). 3. Film (brief history, art film, authorial film). 4. Experimental film (history, authors). 5. Video clip (history, authors, overlaps into art). 6. Video art. 7. Sound art. 8. Bio art. 9. Digital art (definition of virtual space). 10. Net art (brief history of the Internet, net-art, web 2.0, authors). 11. Postinternet (origin, definition, authors). 12. Game art (brief history of video games, history of game art, authors). 13. Guided discussion (students' papers thematically focused on new media art).
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
1. Project 2. Essay
Recommended literature
  • Aranda, J.; Wood B. K.; Vidokle A. (ed.). The Internet Does Not Exist. Sternberg Press, 2015.
  • Bühler, Melanie (ed.). Art and the Internet. Black Dog Publishing, 2013.
  • Egenfeldt-Nielsen, S.; Smith, J. H.; Tosca, S. P. Understanding Video Games: The Essential Introduction. Routledge, 2009.
  • Green, R. Internet Art. Thames and Hudson, 2004.
  • Grovier, Kelly. Art since 1989. Thames & Hudson, 2015.
  • Kellerman, Aharon. Geographic Interpretations of the Internet. Springer, Cham, 2016.
  • Kholeif, Omar. Moving Image. The MIT Press, 2015.
  • Kholeif, Omar. You Are Here: Art After the Internet.. Cornerhouse Publications Ltd., 2014.
  • Larsen, Lars Bang. Networks. The MIT Press, 2014.
  • Maixnerová, Marie (ed.). #mm net art/ Internetové umění ve virtuálním a fyzickém prostoru. Pastiche Filmz, 2014.
  • Manovich, L. The Language of New Media. The MIT Press, 2001.
  • Möntmann, N. Current Conflicts, Critique and Collaborations. Black Dog Publishing, 2006.
  • Myers, W. Bio Art: Altred Realities. Thames and Hudson, 2015.
  • Paul, Ch. Digital Art. Thames & Hudson, 2015.
  • Perks, S.; Kholeif O. (ed.). Electronic superhighway. Whitechapel Gallery, 2016.
  • Quaranta, Domenico. Beyond New Media Art. LiNK Editions, Brescia, 2013.
  • Quaranta, Domenico. In Your Computer. LiNK Editions, Brescia, 2011.
  • RUSH, M. New Media in Art. Londýn, Thames & Hudson, 2005.
  • Stubbs, Phoeboe (ed.). Art and the Internet. Black Dog Publishing, 2013.
  • Tierney, T. Abstract Space: Beneath the Media Surface. Tailor and Francis, 2007.
  • Weibel, P.; Buddensieg, A. Contemporary Art and the Museum. Hatje Kantz, Verlag, 2007.
  • Weintraub, L. Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art´s Meaning in Contemporary Society 1970s-1990s. Art Insights, 1997.
  • Williams, R. Visual Communication: Integrating Media, Art, and Science. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007.


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