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Module Specifications

Current Academic Year 2012 - 2013
Please note that this information is subject to change.

Module Title	Media Art
Module Code	CM233
School	School of Communications
Online Module Resources
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	5
Pre-requisite	None
Co-requisite	None
Compatibles	None
Incompatibles	None

Description

The module provides students with a broad historical overview into Media Art development. Modernism and Post-Modernism are explored through the introduction of art movements, theoretical and other numerous visual mediums while the student actively participates in multimedia projects during seminars in digital labs using all sorts of multimedia applications.

Learning Outcomes

1. Demonstrate detailed knowledge and critical evaluations of Media Art movements, artists and their works
2. Conceptualise effectively with graphics, text, symbols, moving-image, action-scripting, audio and video in construct a multimedia project
3. Demonstrate detailed knowledge and critical evaluation of Media Art
4. Recognise and implement the appropriate use of multimedia assets and techniques to formulate a valid and creative solution

Workload	Full-time hours per semester
*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Lecture	24	Lectures
Seminars	101	Seminars, projects and self-practice work
Total Workload: 125

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Introduction to Structure and Organisation of Module.
Principles and concept of experimental moving images.

Historical and thoretical perspectives of Media Art.
Origins and evolution; Key historical developments; New media; analogue and digital.

Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
Performance Perspectives.

Case Study.
Categorisation - theory and applications.

Studio Practices.

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	100%	Examination Weight	0%

Course Work Breakdown
Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date

Reassessment Requirement
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories; 1 = A resit is available for all components of the module 2 = No resit is available for 100% continuous assessment module 3 = No resit is available for the continuous assessment component
This module is category 1

Indicative Reading List

Robert Atkins: 1997, Artspeak, Abbeville Press Publishers, New York, 0789203650
Martin Kemp: 2006, Seen/unseen, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 0199295727
Martin Kemp: 1990, The science of art, Yale University Press, New Haven, 0300052413
John Berger: 2008, Ways of seeing, Penguin, London, 9780141035796
John Maeda, Red Burns (Foreword): 0, Creative Code, 3764371080
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum... [et al.]: 0, The great utopia, 0810968681
Jane Frank,: 2009, Science Fiction And Fantasy Artists Of The Twentieth Century, 0786434236
Andreas Bluhm, Stephen White, Bill Clinton, Imogen Cunningham, Mathew Brady (Photographer), Lewis Hine (Photographer), Eadweard Muybridge (Photographer), Walker Evans (Photographer), Alfred Stieglitz (Photographer): 2002, Photograph and The American Dream, 1840-1940, The, 9040096406
Lev Manovich: 2002, The language of new media, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 0262632551
Michael Rush: 2005, New media in art, Thames & Hudson, London, 0500203784
Christiane Paul: 2008, Digital art, 0500203989
Martin Lister... [et al.]: 2003, New media, 0415223784
Joshua Decter,: 2006, Video Art, 3822829501
Rachel Greene: 2004, Internet art, 0500203768