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From: <bgrace@u.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 1:08 PM
Subject: DXARTS 200 – Digital Art and New Media: History, Theory and Practice – Autumn 2014
To: enc5@uw.edu, jodene@u.washington.edu, gkmorell@uw.edu, Sawada@uw.edu, ugrad-advisor@cs.washington.
Hi all, we are trying to get the word out on Edward Shanken’s class this fall: DXART 200 (Digital Art and New Media: History, Theory & Practice). There are no prerequisites and Freshman who are interested in taking this course can email me at <bgrace@uw.edu> for an add code. This is a great opportunity for students who might need more VLPA credits.
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DXARTS 200 Fall 2014
Digital Art and New Media – History, Theory and Practice
DXARTS 200 explores the history, theory and practice of art and electronic media as a ‘psychic dress rehearsal for the future’ that offers insight into possible trajectories of emerging cultural practices.
We will examine various technologies, such as electric light, xerography, rapid prototyping, digital computing, telecommunications, the Web, virtual reality, and GPS in terms of their specific characteristics as media. We will equally consider how technologies cannot be separated from the way people use them, the human behaviors that co-emerge with them, and the dreams (and fears) embedded in them.
Our survey of the field will include writings by curators, theorists, engineers, and artists, and will combine historic primary texts and current literature. In order to foreground conceptual continuities across media, periods, genres and forms, we will take a thematic approach to several topical streams:
Motion, Duration, Illumination
Coded Form and Electronic Production
Charged Environments
Networks, Surveillance, Culture Jamming
Bodies, Surrogates, Emergent Systems
Simulations and Simulacra
Exhibitions, Institutions, Communities, Collaborations
Individual examples and the streams they represent will be subjected to close readings. Students will acquire fluency with methods from art history, media-theory, and media-archaeology, and learn how to apply these methods, traditions, and principles to the analysis of visual culture.
Dr. Shanken’s lectures will be complemented by guest speakers, primarily artists, who will provide insight into the actual practice of digital and new media art. Students will have an opportunity to actively participate in discussion sections, which will reinforce and expand on course concepts. Throughout the course, students will undertake independent research to write weekly journal entries that will become part of the Art and Electronic Media Online Companion.
Note: the following links are for 2013. The general course will be the same in 2014 but details will be modified.
Syllabus
Schedule and Assignments
Readings
Resources
Lecture Notes
Final Exam (take home)
Professor
Edward A. Shanken
eshanken@uw.edu
Raitt Hall 207J
Office hours – TBA
Section Instructors
TBA
Course Location and Hours
Lecture T-TH, 3:00 – 4:50pm, CDH 109 (Condon Hall)
Sections :
AA 12:30-1:20 MGH 271
AB 1:30-2:20 MGH 254
AC 12:30-1:20 JHN 022
AD 2:30-3:20 MGH 242
AE 12:30-1:20 EEB 026
AF 3:30-4:20 EEB 026
This course can be found in the time schedule at:
http://www.washington.edu/
Billie Grace, Administrator
DXARTS, University of Washington