IM003 New Media Art: Art and Technology I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2011
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Bc. Jitka Leflíková
Timetable
Thu 14:10–15:45 N21
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 150 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/150, only registered: 0/150, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/150
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
At the end of the course students will be able to:
Define the basic terms from the field of media art of the 20th century;
Explain the relations between spheres of art and media (photography, film, television, video, digital technologies);
Formulate opinions on different periods of media art and their dominant characteristics;
Interpret media artists manifestos (from historical avant-gardes to theoretical writings of second half of the 20th century media artists);
Characterize creative poetics of media art in its changes from avant-gards inspired by modern civilization and a concept of machine to media art of 60s and 90s.;
Evaluate the contribution by main media artists for development of the field.
Syllabus
  • Forerunners of new media art /modern art is media art.
  • 1. Introduction: new media terms.
  • 2. Art – Culture – Science
  • 3.Media replace art: W.Benjamin, B.Brecht, L. Fontana (photography, radio, film).
  • 4. Art reacts to media: art – avant-gardes (creativity and manifests reflecting media development) M. Duchamp.
  • 5. 50s – 60s: Three main strategies of media art: the utopian-emphatic strategy, the receptive-analytical strategy, the critical-destructive strategy.
  • 6. TV (TV as a world power, TV – medium without art, TV set as artistic material, TV – art of the future?, Interventions, cooperation, post-utopia strategies)
Literature
  • Frieling, R.; Daniels, D.: Media Kunst Netz/Media Art Net. Vídeň-New York: Springer, 2004
  • Rovněž elektronická verze: < http://mediaartnet.org >
  • Goldber, R.L. Performance Art From Futurism to the Present. Londýn/New York: Thames & Hudson, 1979.
  • Ed. Wardrip-Fruin, N. a kol.: The New Media Reader. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2003
  • Frieling, R.; Daniels,D. Medien Kunst Interaktion, Die 80er und 90er Jahre in deutschland/Media Art Interaction, the 1980s and 1990s in Germany. Springer, 1997.
  • Hansen, Mark, B.N.: New Philosophy for New Media, MIT Press, 2004
  • Dunn, D. – Vasulka, W. – vasulka, s. (ed.) EIGENWELT DER APPARATE – WELT, Pioneers of Electronic Art. Linz: Ars Electronica, 1992.
  • Rush, M.: New Media in Late 20th-Century Art. Londýn/New York : Thames&Hudson, 1999
  • Murray, J., H. Hamlet on the Holodeck, The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1997.
Teaching methods
Lectures. Readings.
Assessment methods
Written test. (10 questions = 100 points). Students have to get at least 60 points for successful passing the test .
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2010.
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