Relates to essay:
Define the term “digital art” (christiane paul “digital art”)
Themes within digital art: software art, net art, generative art, telematics, bio art, AI, sound practice, virtual reality, video art
Choose a specific theme, explore critical context of it, provide examples and discuss this in relation to the transformation of the following: the concept of art object, authorship, relation between artist and audience etc.
| [Essay] | Something has changed, and the Faustian, Promethean period of production and consumption gives way to the ‘proteinic’ era of networks, to the narcissistic and protean era of connections, contact, contiguity, feedback and generalised interface that goes with the universe of communication. With the television image – the television being the ultimate and perfect object for this new era – our own body and the whole surrounding universe become a control screen. [Jean Baudrillard, ‘The Ecstasy of Communication’, in Hal Foster (ed) Postmodern Culture, Pluto Press 1990.Roy Ascott, in Lucy Lippard’s Six Years: The De-materialisation of the Art Object, 1973, points out to the link between previous art practices, conceptualism in particular, and contemporary media production. The issue of dematerialization and more currently conditions of immateriality of artwork become a key concern of current cultural theory and is most evident in current digital art practiceFocusing on a specific example of current digital art practice (an individual work, specific project, a tendency or a ‘genre’) you are required to write a 4,000 academic essay discussing the changing nature of creative practice with particular emphasis on the transformation of the concept of ‘artwork’. The examination of current cultural conditions needs to build upon appropriate critical and theoretical material in support of your argument and must be underpinned by historical influences and references, The essay must follow academic writing guidelines (see document ‘essay writing guide’ on the module portal), make explicit reference to the reading on the module, with references clearly cited and bibliography listed. |
| [Assessment] | Coursework will be assessed through:1. Essay (4000 words) 50% - hand in to Faculty office, week 27 (28/01/08) by 2pm and electronically email in word format to joasia.krysa@plymouth.ac.uk (by the end of the day)3. Negotiated project 50% – assessed by 30mins presentations in Term 2: week 37 and 38. |
