Art and Multimedia

Year
0
Academic year
2023-2024
Code
01012660
Subject Area
Área Científica do Menor
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Other Languages of Instruction
English
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Elective
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Oral presentations, lectures, analysis of multimedia works, online research, discussions, group work and blog writing.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the semester, students should be able to:

a) describe the historical process of integration of arts and media (19th and 20th centuries);

b) describe the interdisciplinary and intermedia nature of several contemporary artistic practices (particularly in the performing and digital arts);

c) describe modes of retroaction between technology and art;

d) understand multimedia processes in contemporary art as an extension of multimediation in digital culture.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

This course describes the relationship between processes of integration of the arts and processes of integration of media. The observation of contemporary intermedia and multimedia art practices is preceded by a reflection on the specificity of the regime of representation in the arts and the inscriptional regime of nineteenth- and twentieth-century technological media. The symbolic grid of representation in traditional arts (literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theatre, dance) is contrasted with the automatic inscription characteristic of photographic, phonographic, filmic, videographic, and cybernetic representation. We will also reflect on how technical reproduction feeds back onto artistic practices and forms. The digital reproducibility of new media, which depends on computer processing, has originated a new kind of database aesthetics that favours a convergent recombination of art forms and technological media. 

Head Lecturer(s)

Patrícia Sequeira Brás

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Participation in classes: 30.0%
Mini Tests: 30.0%
Frequency: 40.0%

Bibliography

Maduro, D. C., ed. (2017). Digital Media and Textuality: From Creation to Archiving. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag.

Marques, D. & Gago, A., orgs. (2020). Investigação-Experimentação-Criação: em Arte-Ciência-Tecnologia. Porto: Universidade Fernando Pessoa.

Murray J.H. (2018) "Research into Interactive Digital Narrative: A Kaleidoscopic View". In: Rouse R., Koenitz H., Haahr M. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04028-4_1

Portela, M. (2021). "Writing Flows for an Uncertain World: Jean-Pierre Balpe’s Generative Narratives". Arnaut, A.P. e Peixinho, A.T., eds. As Palavras Visíveis. Coimbra: Centro de Literatura Portuguesa/ MinervaCoimbra, 151-172.

Ryan, M.L. (2006). “Narrative, Media, and Modes”, in Avatars of Story. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 3-30.

Simanowski, R. (2018). The Death Algorithm and Other Digital Dilemmas. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Tabbi, J., ed. (2020). Post-Digital. London: Bloomsbury. 2 volumes.