FF:IMK03 New Media Art I - Course Information

IMK03 New Media Art: Art and Technology I

Extent and Intensity

2/0/0. 6 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
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts

Timetable

Fri 20. 9. 14:10–15:45 N21, Fri 18. 10. 14:10–15:45 N21, Fri 22. 11. 14:10–15:45 N21, Fri 6. 12. 14:10–15:45 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

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

Course objectives

At the end of the course students will be able to:
Define the basic terms from the field of media art of the 20th century;
Explain the relations between spheres of art and media (photography, film, television, video, digital technologies);
Formulate opinions on different periods of media art and their dominant characteristics;
Interpret media artists manifestos (from historical avant-gardes to theoretical writings of second half of the 20th century media artists);
Characterize creative poetics of media art in its changes from avant-gards inspired by modern civilization and a concept of machine to media art of 60s and 90s.;
Evaluate the leading media artists’ contribution to the development of the field.

Syllabus

• What is new media art: definition, differences between the concepts, periodization.
• What are the "new media": genealogy: computing devices + technical images.
• Modern art: a photograph as a catalyst for change: P. Weibel, W. Benjamin.
• Remediation: from photography to digital image: Bolter and Grusin, Benjaminiana.
• Avant-garde film as a Media Art precursor: collage, new vision, superposition: L. Manovich: D. Vertov.
• Ancestors of Media Arts: Art manifests and Utopia: Futurism, Constructivism, abstraction, Bauhaus, M. Duchamp.
• Formation of the three strategies of media art.

Literature

• Frieling, R.; Daniels, D.: Media Kunst Netz/Media Art Net. Vídeň-New York: Springer, 2004
• Rovněž elektronická verze: < http://mediaartnet.org >
• Goldber, R.L. Performance Art From Futurism to the Present. Londýn/New York: Thames & Hudson, 1979.
• Ed. Wardrip-Fruin, N. a kol.: The New Media Reader. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2003
• Hansen, Mark, B.N.: New Philosophy for New Media, MIT Press, 2004
• Dunn, D. – Vasulka, W. – vasulka, s. (ed.) EIGENWELT DER APPARATE – WELT, Pioneers of Electronic Art. Linz: Ars Electronica, 1992.
• Rush, M.: New Media in Late 20th-Century Art. Londýn/New York : Thames&Hudson, 1999
• DAVIS, Douglas: The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction (An Evolving Thesis: 1991-1995). Leonardo, Vol. 28, No. 5, Third Annual New York Digital Salon, pp. 381–386. Dostupné on-line:http://classes.dma.ucla.edu/Winter09/9-1/_pdf/3-Davis_Work_of
• MANOVICH, Lev: The Language of New Media. Kapitola: How New Media Became New. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000, s. 45 – 48.
• KITTLER, Friedrich A. Gramofon, film, psací stroj. Kapitoly z dějin a teorie médií. Tomáš Dvořák (ed.). Praha: AVU, 2010, s. 51 – 67.
• MANOVICH, Lev: Avant Garde as Software. Lev Manovich Official Website. 1999. Dostupné on-line: www.manovich.net/DOCS/avantgarde_as_software.doc
• GREENBERG, Clement: Avant-guard and kitch. Partisan Review 6:5 (1939), s. 34 – 49. Dostupné on-line: http://www.sharecom.ca/greenberg/kitsch.html
• BOLTER, Jay – GRUSIN, Richard: Remediation: understanding new media. Kapitola: Digital Photography. Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press, 2000, s. 105 – 112.
• KERA, Denisa: Nová media. Artlist.cz: http://artlist.cz/index.php?id=149
• LANDOW, Georgie P.: Hypertext as Collage-Writing. The Digital Dialectic. New Essays on New Media. Peter Lunenfeld (ed.). Cambridge – London: MIT Press, s. 150 – 170.
• BATCHEN, Geoffrey: Zviditelnění elektřiny. Kapitoly z dějin a teorie médií. Tomáš Dvořák (ed.). Praha: AVU, 2010, s. 215 – 232.
• BENJAMIN, Walter: Malé dějiny fotografie. Iluminácie. Bratislava: Kalligram, 1999, s. 160 – 174.
• FOSTER, H.; KRAUSS, R.; BOIS, Y. A.; BUCHLOH, B.: Umění po roce 1900. Praha: Slovart. 2007.
• GREENBERG, Clement: Collage. Art News, September, 1958. Dostupné on-line: http://www.sharecom.ca/greenberg/collage.html
• Horáková, Jana: Umělecké dílo v době své digitální reprodukovatelnosti. FF MU, 2010. Dostupné on-line: http://is.muni.cz/do/rect/el/estud/ff/ps10/dilo/web/pages/literatura.html
• PAUL, Christiane: Digital art. Kapitola: Introduction: A short history of technology and art; The presentation, collection, and preservation of digital art, Thames&Hudson, 2003, s. 8 – 23.
• REENA, Jana –TRIBE, Mark: New Media Art. Taschen, 2009.
• MALINA, Frank: Digital Image: Digital Cinema: The Work of Art in the Age of Post-Mechanical Reproduction. Leonardo. Supplemental Issue, Vol. 3, Digital Image, Digital Cinema: SIGGRAPH '90 Art Show Catalog, MIT Press 1990, pp. 33–38. Dostupné on-line: ht
• MÍČOVÁ, Pavlína: Video. Artlist.cz: http://artlist.cz/index.php?id=120
• BOLTER, Jay – GRUSIN, Richard: Imediace, hypermediace, remediace. Kapitoly z dějin a teorie médií. Tomáš Dvořák (ed.). Praha: AVU, s. 69 – 93.

Teaching methods

Lectures. Readings.

Assessment methods

Written examination consisting of 10 questions focusing on the basic terms and concepts of the discipline.

Language of instruction

Czech

Follow-Up Courses

• IMK17 New Media Art II

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.

• Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2013, recent)
  
• Permalink: https://is.muni.cz/course/phil/autumn2013/IMK03