New Media Aesthetics
2019/2020
Content, progress and pedagogy of the module
The course introduces students to the most fundamental developments, changes and challenges in the aesthetics resulting from the introduction and evolution of digital tools of artistic creation. The course leads them to reflect on the transformation of the principles of traditional aesthetics caused by the 21
evolution of new forms of artistic practice in the field of digital media. It provides them with the overview of the most important aesthetic categories and concepts created to describe and analyse artistic phenomena in the area of new media arts. During the course, students also acquire knowledge of main trends and research positions in the field of new media aesthetics. The course will enable the students to develop theoretical, critical discourses concerning aesthetic theory as well as practice of new media arts.
Learning objectives
Knowledge
- Advanced knowledge of the evolution of traditional paradigm of aesthetics in relation to the development the use of digital technologies in artistic practice.
- Advanced knowledge of categories, theories and concepts of new media aesthetics.
- Advanced knowledge of the history and evolution of new media aesthetics.
- Knowledge of challenges and discourses of new media aesthetics in relation to evolution of digital and post-digital technologies and tools of artistic creation.
Skills
- Advanced ability to operationalize gained knowledge of new media aesthetics in analysing and interpreting various phenomena of new media arts.
- Ability to develop critical discourse on new media arts and related cultural phenomena.
- Advanced ability to write critically on new media arts and new media aesthetics.
- Understanding and ability to critically analyse challenges and new possibilities resulting from the development of new media technologies.
Competences
- To reflect on various consequences of the development of new media technologies on the evolution of contemporary art and culture.
- To reflect on challenges for contemporary art and culture resulting from the development of new media technologies
- To critically investigate the roles, recent possibilities and prospects of new media technology in contemporary art and culture.
Exam
Exams
| Name of exam | New Media Aesthetics |
| Type of exam | Active participation and/or written assignment
During the semester the students will read and analyse numerous
texts. Their activity during classes will be a part of the final
evaluation. At the end of the semester the students write a
critical essay on a subject that each of them choose for
themselves. The subject of the essay should be discussed with the
22 coordinator of the course in advance. The essay should be 3000 – 3500 words long and should be written according to the editorial rules of academic papers. The final grade is based on the evaluation of the quality of the essay (70%) and active participation (30%). |
| ECTS | 10 |
| Assessment | 7-point grading scale |
| Type of grading | Internal examination |
| Criteria of assessment | The criteria of assessment are stated in the Examination Policies and Procedures |
Facts about the module
| Danish title | Æstetik i New Media |
| Module code | KAMAC20159 |
| Module type | Course |
| Duration | 1 semester |
| Semester | Autumn
This module is offered only as a part of the ERASMUS MUNDUS Master of Excellence: Media Arts Cultures at University of Lodz, Poland 3rd semester |
| ECTS | 10 |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Location of the lecture | Other location |
| Responsible for the module |
Organisation
| Study Board | Study Board of Communication and Digital Media |
| Department | Department of Communication and Psychology |
| Faculty | The Faculty of Humanities |
