Course detail

New Media Art 2

FaVU-2USIM-IIAcad. year: 2023/2024

Předmět představuje umění nových médií v historické perspektivě, z hlediska jeho základních forem (médií) a k nim se vážících koncepcí, estetiky a poetiky. An introduction to major tendencies in the field of new media art is extended in this semester by a detailed introduction to theoretical concepts and professional terminology.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D.

Department

Filozofická fakulta (FF MU)

Entry knowledge

An interest in new media art and the ability to read scholarly texts in English.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Attendance (50 %). Participation in class discussions. Submission of determined texts’s summaries.
Final written test: The test consists of 20 questions. 50 % correct answers is needed to pass.
Attendance is mandatory (50 %).

Aims

The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the new media art as a specific area of modern and postmodern art, situated at the intersection of computer technology and technical media trajectories of development.
After completing the course, student will be able to:
- Define new media art;
- Describe relations between historical avant-guard art and new media art;
- Identify and characterise periods of new media art development;
- Distinguish different kinds of new media art, to determine their location on the timeline of new media art, and to assign the most important authors and works to them;
- List the specific themes of new media art.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

DIEZ, Marion (ed.): Lanterna magika: nouvelles technologies dans l'art tchèque du XXe siècle. Praha: Kant, 2002. (CS)
Ed. Lister, M. a kol.: New Media: A Critical Introduction, Londýn, 2003
FRIELING, R.; DANIELS, D.: Media Kunst Netz/Media Art Net. Vídeň-New York: Springer, 2004. (CS)
Huhtamo, E.: From Kaleidoscomaniac to Cybernerd: Notes Toward an Archeology of Media, In. Ed.Druckerey, T.: Electric
Manovich, L.: The Language of New Media, Mit Press 2002.
PAUL, Christiane: Digital art. Thames & Hudson, 2003. (CS)
REENA, Jana –TRIBE, Mark: New Media Art. Taschen, 2009. (CS)
WARDRIP-FRUIN, N. a kol. (eds.): The New Media Reader. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. (CS)

Type of course unit

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D.

Syllabus

- Interactivity, collaboration and participation;
- Apropriation, remake, remix;
- Gaming a interventions, culture jamming, tactical media;
- Databases, data visualisation, mapping;
- Beyond the book: text and narrative environments;
- Mobile and locative media;
- Telepresence, telematics, telerobotics;
- Artificial life, Artificial intelligence, intelligent agents;
- New media art festivals and institutions;
- New Media Art: Czech scene.