STUDY PROGRAMME
Creative Media Production

AFAM CODE
ABTEC40

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Multimedia Design

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
Multimedia Design

CREDITS
12

APPROACH
Theoretical/project based

This course focuses on non-linear narration and interactive environments. Part of it revolves around digital design and the sound world: culture, aesthetics, dynamics. The other part focuses on multimedia installations; here, code design extends to interaction design and analogue-digital interfaces.

The programme grants 12 credits, divided as follows:

• INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS: 6 CFA

• MULTIMEDIA LANGUAGES: 6 CFA

Successful students will be able to:

→ Understand and apply non-linear narration

→ Understand and apply the principles of interactivity

→ Apply algorithms as the basis of design

→ Understand and apply the logics of at least two programming languages

→ Contemporary sound design between physical and digital reality

→ Introduction and use of MaxMsp

→ Contemporary interactive installations between physical and digital reality

→ Narration and aesthetics of installations

→ Installation design

→ Introduction and use of TouchDesigner

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

PRODUCT DESIGN 1:

• Oral exams

• Completion of comprehensive projects

• Submission of exercises, projects or research works

INTERIOR DESIGN 1:

• Oral exams

• Completion of comprehensive projects

• Submission of exercises, projects or research works

DESIGN SYSTEM 1:

• Oral exams

• Exercises or projects

• Presentation of exercises or research

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

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

→ Dixon S. (2015) Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation, MIT Press, Cambridge (MA).

Further bibliographic recommendations may be provided by the professors during the course. A lot of the referenced material, together with other in-depth study material, can be consulted online in MyNaba, in the Library section.