STUDY PROGRAMME
Media Design and Multimedia Arts

AFAM CODE
ABPR36

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Performative techniques for visual arts

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
Multimedia installations

CREDITS
6

APPROACH
Theoretical/project based

The course aims at introducing the students to the design of multimedia installations, that is systems capable of interacting with the visitors both at a sensory and at a content level. Students will acquire technical and theoretical tools in order to simultaneously manage different media, with a focus on sound design and audio visual performances.

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

Successful students will be able to:

• Define and analyse the characteristics of an existing multimedia system

• Highlight the value of experimentation and foster the relation among art, design and technology

• Develop the necessary theoretical knowledge and practical skills to approach audio visual performance projects with the right design method

• Create simple interactive multimedia prototypes

• History of video art

• Analysis of audio-visual installations

• Multimedia design in space

• Hardware and software tools and interfaces

• Audio-visual performance

• Sound in audio-visual performances

• Real-time audio-visual techniques

• Management and production of audio-visual performance projects

This is a theoretical/project based course.

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:

• Graded exercises

• Creation of a multimedia installation

• Oral exam

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

• Youngblood, G. (2013) Expanded Cinema, Clueb.

Many of the recommended sources, together with additional material, are also available online on MyNaba, in the Library section.

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