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IMN11 New Media Art Interpretation Tools II

Extent and Intensity

2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Supervisor

doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology - Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Bc. Jitka Leflíková
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Department of Musicology - Faculty of Arts

Timetable

Wed 15:50–17:25 N21

Course Enrollment 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 enrollment status: enrolled: 15/150, only registered: 0/150, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/150

Fields of study the course is directly associated with

• Theory of Interactive Media (programme FF, N-HS)
• Theory of Interactive Media (programme FF, N-OT)

Course objectives

The goal of the course is to provide students with knowledge about interpretation strategies suitable in case of new media work of art.
At the end of the course students will be able to frame important media art works into wider cultural and theoretical context with a special attention to the art-science-technology relationship;
Define the basic terms from the field of media art aesthetics, as it was developed under influence of cybernetics, informatics, and artificial intelligence in a second half of 20th century;
Explain the relations of individual disciplines of triangle art-science-technology on examples from media art history;
Analyse works and periods of media art history from first computer graphics to virtual reality ;
Characterize creative poetics of significant media artists with respect to wider context (social, artistic creativity, scientific, and technical development and their theoretical reflection);
Evaluate the contribution and limits of media art different interpretation tools. Summarize findings from the field of aesthetic approaches towards media art development.

Syllabus

• 1.) Art-science-technology (E. Shanken), new sensitivity (S. Sontag), hard science: critique of rationalism and objective truth.
• 2.) Computer and Art (invited lecture Mgr. T. Staudek, Ph.D.) October 22.
• 3.) 60s Cybernetics and Informatics: important tools of media art pioneers work understanding (N. Wiener, A. Turing, R. Ascott)
• 4.) An interactive work of art as a tool of plurality of postmodern age articulation (invited lecture Mgr. Jozef Cseres) November 2.
• 5.) 70s Expanded Cinema (G. Youngblood), politics of ecstasy (T. Leary) and System aesthetics (J. Burnham) viz: http://www.volweb.cz/horvitz/burnham/systems-esthetics.html),
• 6.) Symposium on interpretation of media artwork. See: invited lectures by doc. Dusan Zahoransky, Mgr. art.: Narattor; Mgr. Bogumila Suwara, Ph.D.: How /new/media art work interprets itself.
• 7.) 80s Language of New Media (L. Manovich). A structuralist approach to new media art and arrival of avant-gardes.
• 8.) Lecture by contemporary artist MgA. Barbora Klimova” presentation of concept and process of her exhibition-document “For these, who did not get born here” (December 3)
• 9.) 90s Net Art (collaborative and interactive art). Aesthetics of digital image (virtuality).
• 10.) Software studies (Manovich and other). Information aesthetic according to L. Manovich.

Literature

• BÍLEK, Petr A. Hledání jazyka interpretace :k modernímu prozaickému textu. Vyd. 1. Brno: Host, 2003. 360 s. ISBN 80-7294-080-5. info
• GRAU, Oliver. Virtual art :from illusion to immersion. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2003. xiv, 416 s. ISBN 0-262-07241-6. info
• Meze interpretace. Edited by Umberto Eco - Ladislav Nagy. 1. české vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 2004. 330 s. ISBN 80-246-0740-9. info
• HAWKES, Terence. Strukturalismus a sémiotika. Vyd. 1. Praha: Host, 1999. 174 s. ISBN 80-86055-62-0. info
• Hodrová, Daniela: …na okraji chaosu…Poetika literárního díla 20.století, Torst-Praha, 2001.
• GRYGAR, Mojmír. Terminologický slovník českého strukturalismu :obecné pojmy estetiky a teorie umění : strukturalismus, struktura, vývoj umění, estetická funkce, norma, hodnota, znak, význam, osobnost, sémantické gesto. Vyd. 1. Brno: Host, 1999. 319 s. ISBN 80-86055-61-2. info
• MARTIN, Sylvia. Video art. Edited by Uta Grosenick. Köln: Taschen, 2006. 95 s. ISBN 3-8228-4674-0. info
• AUSLANDER, Philip. From acting to performance :essays in modernism and postmodernism. 1st publ. London: Routledge, 1997. x, 173 s. ISBN 0-415-15787-0. info
• Art, lies and videotape :exposing performance. Edited by Adrian George. 1st pub. Liverpool: Tate, 2003. 99 s. ISBN 1-85437-525-3. info
• TRIBE, Mark and Jana REENA. New media art. Edited by Uta Grosenick. Köln: Taschen, 2006. 95 s. ISBN 3-8228-3041-0. info
• International postmodernism : theory and literary practice. Edited by Hans Bertens - Douwe Wessel Fokkema. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1997. xvi, 581 s. ISBN 90-272-3445-0. info
• HARLAND, Richard. Superstructuralism : the philosophy of structuralism and post-structuralism [Harland, 1987, Methuen]. London: Methuen, 1987. x, 213 s. ISBN 0-416-03232-X. info

Teaching methods

Lectures, reading, presentations by professionals.

Assessment methods

Active participation in lectures. Written test (10 questions = 100 points). For successful passing the test students have to get at least 70 points.

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.

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