VV_NVG New Media Art Navigator

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2023
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
MgA. Jana Francová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
MgA. Jana Francová, Ph.D.
Department of Art – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. et Mgr. Jana Nedomová, Ph.D.
Timetable of Seminar Groups
VV_NVG/01: Mon 18:00–19:50 ateliér 18A, J. Francová
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 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
A seminar focused on technologically conditioned art, otherwise also the art of new media. The aim is to deepen the knowledge and context of art and technology, to demonstrate the differences between old and analog processes and what we call the digital turnaround in society. We will deal in detail with the media and specific works of video art, sound art, performance, interactive installations, robotic art, telematics, videomapping, VJing, net art, game art, software art, algorithmic art, artificial intelligence and work with DNA or databases.
Learning outcomes
The seminar enables two types of outputs: analysis of an existing new media art project from the point of view of media theory and analysis of the relations between the used technological procedures and their limits. The second variant is the concept of the author's artwork, which uses the latest technologies and procedures and develops issues of digitalization.
Syllabus
  • 1. Specifics of new media in restoration practice. Collections and archives. Multimedia, interactivity, post-internet situation
  • 2. Digital turnover, media theory, post-production, metamedia
  • 3. time, time capture, the relationship between film, video and digital image
  • 4. Documentary in audiovisual, documentary as an independent project of mediating an art installation
  • 5. sound, sound sculptures, installation, radio, sound objects
  • 6. space: extension of the sculpture concept to other media: installation, site specific, 3D printing, digital fabrication
  • 7. Big data, visualization, machine learning
  • 8. net art, net.art, art on the internet, artivismus, hacktivismus
  • 9. Space of computer games, machinima, appropriation, fictional worlds theory
  • 10. Cyborg as an old-new concept, the body in the digital age, body extension
  • 11. colloquium, discussion on student projects
Literature
    required literature
  • LISTER, M., DOVEY, J., GIDDINGS, S., GRANT, I., & KELLY, K. (2003). New media. A critical introduction. Second edition. Routledge.
  • MEIXNEROVÁ, M. (Ed.). (2014a). #mm net art - internetové umění ve virtuálním a fyzickém prostoru prezentace. Pastiche Filmz.
  • FRANCOVÁ, Jana. Navigátor Úvod do umění nových médií (The New Media Art Navigator). 1st ed. Brno: muni PRESS, 2021, 263 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-9887-9. info
  • Art and electronic media. Edited by Edward A. Shanken. 1st pub. New York: Phaidon Press, 2009, 304 s. ISBN 9780714868585. info
  • BOURRIAUD, Nicolas. Postproduction, 2001 « Documents sur l'art » (Postproduction: Culture as Screenplay: How Art Reprograms the World. New York: Lukas & Sternberg, 2002. ISBN 0971119309. Translated by Jeanine Hermann.). Dijon: transit, 2002. ISBN 80-903452-0-4. info
  • MANOVICH, Lev. The language of new media. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001, xxxix, 354. ISBN 9780262133746. info
  • BENJAMIN, Walter. Dílo a jeho zdroj. Translated by Věra Saudková. Vydání první. Praha: Odeon, 1979, 428 stran. URL info
    recommended literature
  • VOJTĚCHOVSKÝ, M. (Ed.), Vašulkova kuchyňská kniha #1. Texty k médiím: první & poslední (s. 19-28). Centrum umění nových médií - Vašulka Kitchen Brno.
  • DELUZE, G. (n.d.). Postscript on the societies of control. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control.pdf.
Teaching methods
Lectures, discussions, gallery visits
Assessment methods
debate on the text
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Minimální počet zapsaných studujících je 12.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2022, Autumn 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2023, recent)
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