Art and new media

Teacher(s)

Streitberger Alexander;

Language

French

Prerequisites

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Main themes

The course discusses specific interpretation problems concerning the impact of new media in art related to aspects of creation, distribution, documentation and perception of art.

Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	Application of analytical methods concerning pictures produced by new media like photography, film, video and digital images.

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.

Content

The course gives a critical introduction in the relationship between still and moving image within modern and contemporary art and visual culture. 
The class will adapt a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, in order to analyze how the encounter of photography and film takes place across different media such as photography, cinema, the photographic novel, and video.
Theoretical approaches from different disciplines (art history, film studies, photography theory, visual studies) will be used to understand aesthetic practices and concepts such as montage, panorama, tableau vivant and sequentiality.

Teaching methods

Lectures by the course tacher and by guest speakers, personal reading by students.

Evaluation methods

Written examination.

Other information

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Online resources

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Bibliography

David Campany (ed.), The Cinematic, New York (MIT Press), 2007.
David Green, Joanna Lowry (eds.), Stillness and Time. Photography and the Moving Image, Photoworks (Brighton), 2006.
Victor Burgin, The Remembered Film, London (Reaktion Books), 2004.

Faculty or entity

ARKE