STUDY PROGRAMME
Creative Media Production

AFAM CODE
ABST45

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Theories of Multimedia Arts

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
Digital cultures

CREDITS
6

APPROACH
Theoretical

This course aims at introducing the students to the contemporary digital culture following an artistic ap- proach, where “digital culture” is meant as the con- temporary infrastructure based on bits, their artistic uses, and intersections between creativity and digital technologies.

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

Successful students will be able to:

→ Be familiar with the evolution of digital art in the last decades

→ Understand all the theoretical implications, from the Turing machine on

→ Understand the role of data in the art world

→ Understand the role of algorithms in the art world

→ Master the artistic instances

→ Video-art

→ Multimedia installations

→ Cyberart

→ Bio-art

→ Digital art

The programme focuses on theoretical courses.

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

• 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:

• Written exams

• Submission of exercises, projects or research works

• Oral exams

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

RECOMMENDED:

• Fiell, C. & P. (2013) The Story of Design, London: Goodman Fiell.

• Sudjic, D., The Language of Things, WW Norton & Co.

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

More books and resources might be requested or suggested by the professors.