Electronic Arts: Inventing Technologies

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2012:

96 Hours

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This subject offers a full history of the electronic arts - its precursors and new developments and movements across all art forms during the 20th and 21 centuries. Exploring the inter-relationships between ideas, aesthetics and technologies we will consider a range of projects in sound design, video art, electronic music, experimental film, multimedia theatre and performance/installation art. The seminar will examine the unique fusion of theory, practice and technical knowledges through workshops, seminars, and lectures. Particular attention will be given to electronic arts where materials and equipment are sourced and recycled from waste.

This subject provides fluency in the applications, languages and history of electronic arts. Focusing on the centrality of experimentation, students will confidently employ basic technical skills in their use of analogue and digital forms. Students will acquire a strong capacity to exercise flexibility, imagination and invention within all forms of electronic arts.

5000 words or equivalent written and practical project, developed in conjunction with supervisor with feedback throughout the semester (100%).

Subject Reader

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

On completing this subject students will have:

• the ability to communicate, cooperate and collaborate in a range of cultural contexts internationally;
• a deep awareness of and respect for cultural differences, protocols and aspirations;
• the ability to generate and promote intercultural dialogue through the arts;
• an ability to initiate research projects and develop highly innovative and experimental modes of representation and communication;
• a high level of understanding and appreciation of transnational practices across the art form;
• the capacity to interpret and translate into clear English a range of discipline-specific vocabularies and languages ;
• a capacity for innovative and original thinking marked by well-developed and flexible problem-solving abilities;
• the capacity to clearly communicate the results of research and scholarship by oral and written communication;
• a profound respect for truth and intellectual integrity, and for the ethics of research and scholarship;
• a capacity to cooperate and collaborate with people across all national, social and cultural divides.