Fall 2023

Instructors: Ioana Mischie, Dorin Cucicov

Email: [email protected]

Lecture: Wednesdays 14h-17h

📜 Course Description

This course aims to decode and to advance Digital Media Arts (DMA) with a focus on contemporary trends and futuristic pathways. The class blends transcontinental theory glimpses with innovative case studies and practice-led immersive labs.

🧠 Course Objectives

Major Themes:

• Defining, identifying and analyzing DMA; discovering the key concepts and the way they reshape contemporary authorship, spectatorship and society;
• Exploring key figures that have shaped the DMA;
• Industry pipelines for DMA projects (from development stage to distribution);
• Understanding and expressing transdisciplinarity and teamwork as a core-value.
• Advancing DMA;

Weekly Topics:

1. Digital Media Arts - Definitions & Identification of Key Concepts
2. Roots of Digital Media Arts (A Deep Dive into Immersive Practices)
3. Web Documentaries & Immersive Journalism (theory + creative case studies)
4. Virtual Reality (theory + innovative case studies)
5. Augmented & Mixed Reality (theory + creative case studies)
6. Installations
7. Hybrid Art
8. Transmedia Art (precursors, definitions, examples)