IM124 New Media Art: Art and Technology I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2012
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 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
Thu 14:10–15:45 N21
Prerequisites (in Czech)
NOW( IM124cv New Media Art I )
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
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 contribution by main media artists for 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
  • MANOVICH, Lev: Avant Garde as Software. Lev Manovich Official Website. 1999. Dostupné on-line: www.manovich.net/DOCS/avantgarde_as_software.doc
  • 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.
  • GREENBERG, Clement: Collage. Art News, September, 1958. Dostupné on-line: http://www.sharecom.ca/greenberg/collage.html
  • BATCHEN, Geoffrey: Zviditelnění elektřiny. Kapitoly z dějin a teorie médií. Tomáš Dvořák (ed.). Praha: AVU, 2010, s. 215 – 232.
  • FOSTER, H.; KRAUSS, R.; BOIS, Y. A.; BUCHLOH, B.: Umění po roce 1900. Praha: Slovart. 2007.
  • KITTLER, Friedrich A. Gramofon, film, psací stroj. Kapitoly z dějin a teorie médií. Tomáš Dvořák (ed.). Praha: AVU, 2010, s. 51 – 67.
  • REENA, Jana –TRIBE, Mark: New Media Art. Taschen, 2009.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • MANOVICH, Lev: The Language of New Media. Kapitola: How New Media Became New. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000, s. 45 – 48.
  • 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
  • KERA, Denisa: Nová media. Artlist.cz: http://artlist.cz/index.php?id=149
  • BENJAMIN, Walter: Malé dějiny fotografie. Iluminácie. Bratislava: Kalligram, 1999, s. 160 – 174.
  • 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
  • BOLTER, Jay – GRUSIN, Richard: Imediace, hypermediace, remediace. Kapitoly z dějin a teorie médií. Tomáš Dvořák (ed.). Praha: AVU, s. 69 – 93.
  • MÍČOVÁ, Pavlína: Video. Artlist.cz: http://artlist.cz/index.php?id=120
Teaching methods
Lectures. Readings.
Assessment methods
Written test. (50 points). Students have to get at least 25 points for successful passing the test .
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021.
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