Electronic Arts 613

Presentation & Representation

Overview

This unit introduces students to a variety of important notions in the analysis and design of creative works.   They are not presented in any particular order and are interrelated.   The intention is that students will consider one topic a week, with week 12 open for discussion/summary with staff.

1 New Media Gallery: White Cube, Black Box & New Media Lounge

2 New Media Art

3 Artists' Work - BD (Before Digitazation)

4 Artists' Work - AD (After Digitazation)

5 Distributed Systems

6 Interactive Art: Virtual & Augmented Reality

7 Themes in Digital Art & Festivals

8 Digital Aesthetics

9 Architectural space - Memory space

10 Future Vision/Neurocinema

11 Future Agents/Blade Runner

12 Open for discussion

Assessable outcomes

After undertaking each week's Primary Reading, the student should produce a response to the topic by applying the notions to an existing human constructed "thing". This "thing" could be a specific created work of art, a genre, a period in history, a social phenomenon, etc. The response can be in the form of a written journal, or as a creative work. In the case of a written journal, this will be a five hundred word entry per week. In the case of a creative work, it could be a separate weekly work, or a single, larger, evolving work.

In either case, the response has to be recorded in a distributable format for formal assessment ie: a word document, a paper based folio, A DVD, a Website, A CD-Rom, etc.