IM003 New Media Art: Between Art and Technology I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 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: doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D.
Timetable
Wed 13:20–14:55 zruseno D21
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The main objective is to offer the students a survey of development of the art of new media in the 20th century. Art of new media is understood as a creative field in the intersection of art and media (photography, film, TV, video, digital technologies). The course offers information and theoretical tools for the orientation in the historical background of the present multimedia works. At the end of this course, students should be able to master the related historical facts and problems of media art and will be able to place the present media art into historical context, formal strategies and thematic spheres.
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.
Assessment methods
Lecture 2/0. Written exam. Requirements: compulsory and recommended readings
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 2010, Autumn 2011.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2008, recent)
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