Moodle

This course is an introductory gateway to a more focused study in the various media that constitute this new field. It gives a broader view, one that introduces students to a range of different media and approaches. The software changes quickly, and hardware is always improving. The course aims to provide knowledge of the constants that face any artist, designer, and student.

Chapters and topics

The term ‘digital art’ has itself become an umbrella for a very broad range of artistic works and practices. This course will provide a survey of the multiple forms of digital and new media art, the basic characteristics of their aesthetic language, and their technological and art-historical evolution. One of the basic but crucial distinctions made here is that between art that uses digital technologies as a tool for the creation of more traditional art objects – such as a photograph, print, or sculpture – and digital-born, computable art that is created, stored, and distributed via digital technologies and employs their features as its very own medium, such as interactive installation, software or internet art, virtual reality, and so on. The latter is commonly understood as ‘new media art’.