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EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO – NEW MEDIA ARTS

Course Code:

Π-7070

Semester:

7st Semester

Specialization Category:

ΜΕ

Course Hours:

5

ECTS:

5


Learning outcomes

  • Knowledge, comparative study, critical analysis and evaluation of the characteristics and the periodization of significant art movements and art works through history.
  • Gained knowledge of the development of new technologies and how they affected the Video art and the New Media art in order to make comparisons and differentiations.
  • Ability to recognize innovative theoretical and methodological approaches and understand their role within a broader socio-cultural perspective.
  • Gained an understanding of the role of new technologies and the utilization of media art and technology as structural elements of artworks.
  • Gained familiarity with the basic techniques and technical parameters of shooting and processing audiovisual media through compositing procedures and mixed media art works.
  • Improve skills to organize, make experiments, and create an aesthetically and technically whole and meaningful new audiovisual media artwork.
  • Ability to critically support their work and their choices

 

General Competences

  • Research, analyse and synthesize data and information, using the necessary technologies
  • Adapt to new situations
  • Decision making
  • Autonomous work
  • Teamwork
  • Working in an international environment
  • Exercise of criticism and self-criticism
  • Project design and management Respect for diversity and multiculturalism
  • Showing social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues
  • Promote free, creative and inductive thinking

 

Course Outline

THEORY

  • From Experimental Video to Digital Media
  • New digital technology and its effects on contemporary art production
  • Experimental and Avant Garde films (late 1950s-1970s)
  • Video art (1960s-1990s)
  • Combined art forms-video installation, video sculptures, video Mapping
  • Contemporary forms of narration in the New media Art (1990s-today)
  • Interactive Art
  • Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality
  • Digital Compositing Images-Special Effects in moving pictures

 

PRACTICE PART OF THE COURSE

Through the practice part of the course students will have the opportunity to experiment with different compositing and mixed media techniques in order to create their own art work.
Practical application of theories of

  • Specialized compositing software techniques (2d & 3d)
  • Compositing Images
  • 3D Space management
  • Motion paths in 2d space and 3d space
  • Masks and Keying
  • Imaging techniques aimed at creating special effects
  • Basic green screen shots
  • Digital model of the artwork
  • Synthesis of mixed media techniques in order to create an aesthetically and technically whole and meaningful audiovisual artwork that belongs to Video Art and New Media Art.

 

RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY

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