STUDY PROGRAMME
Media Design and Multimedia Arts

AFAM CODE
ABST45

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Theory of multimedia arts

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
New media aesthetics

CREDITS
6

APPROACH
Theoretical

Within an accurate historical and theoretical overview, this course develops an analysis of core themes edging among aesthetics, philosophy of nature, philosophical

anthropology and history of techniques. The purpose is to provide the students with the ability of observing links between art, nature and technique both in past

and present cultural systems and to see how they have been creating historical forms of subjectivity.

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

Successful students will be able to:

• Discuss the relation among art, nature and technique

• Analyse phenomena in the contemporary media

• Use proper vocabulary for aesthetic analyses

• Relation between subjects and the surrounding world in the Antiquity

• Arts and Technique in the Middle Age, Renaissance and Enlightenment

• Ways of critical deconstruction of the subject of the 20th Century

• Post-structuralism and post-modernity

The programme focuses on theoretical courses.

Students will take part in the following activities, which may vary depending on the different topics:

• Classroom lectures

• Debates, presentations, peer assessment

• Use of tutorials, videos or other media tools

• Exercises and revisions

• Individual study and research

Assessment tools may include:

• Graded exercises

• Oral exam

• Writing an essay

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

The final grade will result from the weighted average of the programme modules.

• Selected passages from the following subject-relevant authors, as chosen by the professor: Agamben, Aristotele, Bacon, Benjamin, Bergson, Derrick De Kerchove, Heidegerr, Kittler, Latour, Lucci, Minazzi, McLuhan.

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