IMN10 New Media Art Interpretation Tools 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
Wed 15:50–17:25 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
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
  • Hodrová, Daniela: …na okraji chaosu…Poetika literárního díla 20.století, Torst-Praha, 2001.
  • TRIBE, Mark and Reena JANA. New media art. Edited by Uta Grosenick. Köln: Taschen, 2006, 95 s. ISBN 3822830410. info
  • MARTIN, Sylvia. Video art. Edited by Uta Grosenick. Köln: Taschen, 2006, 95 s. ISBN 3822846740. info
  • ECO, Umberto and Ladislav NAGY. Meze interpretace. 1. české vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 2004, 330 s. ISBN 9788024607405. info
  • Art, lies and videotape : exposing performance. Edited by Adrian George. 1st pub. Liverpool: Tate, 2003, 99 s. ISBN 1854375253. info
  • 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
  • HAWKES, Terence. Strukturalismus a sémiotika. Vyd. 1. Praha: Host, 1999, 174 s. ISBN 80-86055-62-0. info
  • 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
  • AUSLANDER, Philip. From acting to performance : essays in modernism and postmodernism. 1st publ. London: Routledge, 1997, x, 173. ISBN 0415157870. 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, participation at presentations by professionals (80% attendance). Written test (10 questions = 100 points). For successful passing the test students have to get at least 70 points.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
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