STUDY PROGRAMME
Creative Technologies

AFAM CODE
ABST45

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Theory of multimedial arts

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
New media aesthetics

CREDITS
6

APPROACH
Theoretical

Theoretical-philosophical course that focuses on Beauty and on the perceptive effects associated with the use of new media as new means of artistic expression. Starting from the phenomenological and hermeneutic tradition, it observes the impact of new technologies on the aesthetic scenario - images, sounds, space - generating new cultures and sensitivity.

The programme consists of one single module, which grants 6 credits.

Successful students will be able to:

• Develop a historical and epistemological talk about the aesthetic of media, correctly using the disciplinary language

• Set-up, devise and develop a critical and original talk about the role of images in the contemporary media scenario

• Introduction to the ideas that characterise the disciplinary approach in ancient, modern and contemporary times

• Phenomenology of aesthetic perception in the new multimedia scenario

• Overview on the contemporary scenario: how the experience of beauty changes in the expressive forms/works in relation to the diffusion of virtual reality, technical reproducibility, experiential immersion

This is a theoretical/project based course.

The students will take part in the following activities, which may vary depending on the development of different projects:

• Classroom lectures

• Use of tutorials, videos or other media tools

• Exercises and revisions

• Workshops

• Individual or group projects

• Individual or group study and research

Assessment tools may include:

• Mid-term written exam: open questions on the themes covered in class

• Written exam

• Optional oral exam

Further details about the exams will be provided by the professors.

Books and resources might be requested or suggested by the professors.