Art and New Media

Base Knowledge

N/A

Teaching Methodologies

6.1- The methodological options conducive to the compliance with the Course Program will focus on the following pedagogical strategy:

– Oral exposure centered on the contents provided for;
– Study and presentation of artworks/productions; Development of artworks under teaching guidance.

6.2- EVALUATION METHODS

CONTINUOS EVALUATION
– Attendance participation – 10% of the global assessment;
– Practical assignments – 90% of the global assessment.

EXAM
– Ability to communicate ideas – 30% of the exam’s global assessment;
– Practical component – 70% of the overall assessment of the exam.

 

Learning Results

3.1- New media in expressive contexts.
3.2- To develop skills in multidisciplinary artistic practice..
3.3- Moving image theory – notions of light, time, space, scenography, sound, narrative, choreography.
3.4- Creation of sensorial environments and interactive installations – use of 2D/3D technologies, virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality.
3.5- Study of sound design and its importance in involvement and immersion – notions of harmony, melody, rhythm.
3.6- Notions of Expanded Performance: Crossing Body and Technology.
3.7- To apply skills in engagement practices and public participation, relating them and adapting them to different project methodologies.

Program

4.1- Art and Technology Relationship
4.2- Project planning and development.
4.3- Moving image theory – notions of light, time, space, scenography, sound, narrative, choreography.
4.4- 2D/3D, virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality, concepts and technologies: creation of sensorial environments and interactive installations.
4.5- Applying notions of harmony, melody and rhythm to audiovisual programs.
4.6- Notions of Expanded Performance: Crossing Body and Technology.
4.7- Critical and reflective analysis in the project of multidisciplinary artistic programs.

Curricular Unit Teachers

Grading Methods

Exam
  • - Practical component - 70.0%
  • - Ability to communicate ideas - 30.0%
Continuing Evaluation
  • - Practical assignments - 90.0%
  • - Attendance participation - 10.0%

Internship(s)

NAO

Bibliography

Ascott, R. (2007). Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology and Consciousness, Univ. of California Press.
Audiovisuology Compendium: See this Sound – An Interdisciplinary Survey of Audiovisual Culture. (2010). Edited by Dieter Daniels and Sandra Nauman, Walther König.
Goldberg, R. (2018). Performance Now: Live Art for the Twenty-First Century, Thames & Hudson.
Grau, O. (2003). Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion, MA, MIT.
Leonardo Electronic Almanac – https://www.leoalmanac.org
Manovich, L. (2001), The Language of New Media, Mass, MIT Press.
Paul, C. (2015). Digital Art, Thames & Hudson.
Popper, F. (1997). Art of the Electronic Age, Thames & Hudson.
Rush, M. (1999). New Media in late 20th-century art, Thames & Hudson.
Shanken, E. (2009), Art and Electronic Media, Phaidon.