Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

The course serves as a continued theory course examining and inquiring into the PRACTICES, POSITIONS and CULTURES of Media Art. 

The course introduces a genealogy of media art with a view to its entanglements with the different systems of thought in theories of (media)aesthetics and theories of technology. During the course the students are asked to analyse a variety of media artistic practices and critically reflect on the cultures and theoretical positions they generate in the context of the systems of thought.

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• Understand the history, societal contexts, and institutional frameworks of media art and the diverse cultures it encompasses.
• Identify the experiential and experimental dimensions of media art cultures within a transdisciplinary framework.
• Appreciate the significance of practice-based research in critiquing and analyzing the intersection of media, technology, and knowledge production in media art cultures.
   

Skills

• Demonstrate use of practice-based research to critically analyze the interplay of media aesthetics, science and technology, and other transdisciplinary research positions.
• Proficiency in using methods and technologies relevant to the creation and interpretation of experimental and experiential projects in media arts culture.
• Ability to critically reflect on and formulate alternative perspectives to prominent questions in the field using both experiential understanding and practice-based experiments.
• Discern and evaluate the intersections between experiments, experiences, and the broader framework of media arts cultures. 

Competences

• Ability to integrate knowledge from cross- and trans-disciplinary research to critically analyze and develop innovative strategies in media arts culture.
• Reflect critically on the societal and cultural implications of the interplay between media art, science, technology, and their transdisciplinary experiments and experiential-based research.
• Effectively present findings and outputs, situating them within the broader theoretical and methodological framings pertinent to the Media Arts Cultures domain, emphasizing the importance of experiential understanding and practice-based experimentation.

Exam

Exams