Understanding New Media

Catalog description

This analytical course explores the convergence of media, communications technologies, art design, and culture. This course is intended to familiarize students with important approaches in new media, focusing on the history of the computer as a medium and the conceptual history of interactivity in art and communication. Artists are at the forefront of technological revolutions. Whether designing computer games, producing web sites, writing software, or working on intelligent systems, artists work on a daily basis consuming and producing electronic cultural artifacts. Cybertechnologies have created new contexts for understanding culture. Referring to popular media, science fiction, computer games, and artists's projects, we'll explore how technology has been and will cotinue to be a key component of culture.