MAT200A Art & Technology Seminar | Schedule


George Legrady
Rama Hoetzlein

Seminar Meetings: Thursday 1-3pm, Fridays 1-3pm - Estudio
Visiting Lectures: Fridays 1-3pm - Eng 1 Seminar room

To provide an overview of the digital media arts discipline by introducing a range of issues, themes, methods, and institutions through historical and contemporary examples representative of both the theory and practice. the central focus of the course is to provide an over view of visual/spatial methodologies and how they interface with multimedia engineering and sound. The course is structured into three sections: the visual/image, the time/space continuum, and mixed realities.

We will attempt to define the artistic/aesthetic approach, consider the conditions under which it is produced, and address methods of evaluation. In conjunction with the above, we will also focus on identifying similarities and differences in problem-solving, creativity, and methodologies as practiced in the arts and the sciences with the goal to reveal interdisciplinary possibilities to foster team-based research and production through arts-engineering collaborative projects.

For each lecture, there will be reading assignments with an online report to include links which will be posted at the course website. (this page). The first two sections will require a small assignment, and the final project will consist of a team based project proposal, also to be permanently posted with the course schedule.

Definitions of image, illustration, image as research
Rules and Literacy of Visual Communication
Informational Images: Mapping, medical, scientific
Poetics and aesthetics of the image

The photographic paradigm | the computer generated image

Rhetoric of the Image, Roland Barthes
Language & Belief in Synthesis, Legrady
What is an image, Cohen
Art as Research, Steve Wilson

Past student projects: UbiCup | Wavespot | Peripheral Agency | Rebirth | Bio-logue

Student projects above (one of the projects)

Commentary on Metaphors We Live By, Lakoff (Due today)
Basic concept for final project, (With new teams, Due Nov 17)