General
Digital Audiovisual Applications course proposes a post-disciplinary approach to New Media representations through ontological and epistemological reflection on contemporary digital art-works.
The course’s research is guided by the following questions:
• How do we investigate massive visual collections which may contain from some hundreds to billions of images?
• How do we research interactive media processes and experiences?
• What new theoretical concepts and models we need to deal with the born-digital culture?
The course’s projects are covering the following areas:
Time-Based Digital Arts: Explores the notion of time as a medium in relation to contemporary art through which concepts of still, sequence, narration and motion are expressed. Laboratories, lectures.
Video Art: Experimental Video and sound art practices, from conceptual deconstructions of the film-video apparatus to self-reflexive socio-political and/or cultural critique, are examined through short audio/visual format and video installation.
Communication Design: Explores the communication of ideas and information through visual means. Introduces visual process and principles, visual language and methodology.
Course content
1. Attend all Classes
2. Keep a Research Diary
3. Participate in class discussions and presentations
3. Complete of all individual and group assignments
Programme aims
Students are encouraged to attend screenings, conferences, lectures, exhibitions and web events related to this course.
The Inner Course’s requirements are attached to Academic Honesty – all work done for this course must be the original work of the student submitting it, and should have been undertaken exclusively for this course. No work done prior to this class maybe used to fulfil the class assignments.
Learning Outcomes: Knowledge and Understanding
In each laboratory-session we deal with the relevant theory, problems in meaning and communication, identity and signification, conceptual invention and creativity thus, we elaborate on a critical analysis of digital works of art.
The works produced demonstrate the awareness of the issues at hand, the historical context for the videos and digital applications discussed, as well as the students ability to articulate their observations and analyses in a clear and concise manner.
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