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DOM-E5024 - Introduction to Media Art and Culture, 26.02.2019-15.03.2019

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    Welcome to the DOM-E5024 Introduction to Media Art and Culture (IMAC) course. From this site, you will find the schedule, assignments, your study groups, course readings and videos. We will meet, more or less, every day for three weeks, from Tuesday to Friday, between 9.15 - 12.00.


    Start date: Tuesday, 26 February 2019.

    Location: R029/330 Hitchcock Otakaari 7 (see the possible exceptions below).


    > The Forum / Q&A of the course 
    > To take notes together you may use the Etherpad of the course
    > Slack Channel of the course

    media art starts

    1. INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE + MEDIA ART AND ARTISTS 1 (26.2.2019 Tuesday)

    1. Introduction: MyCourses + assignments + assessment
    2. Study groups and study topics
    3. From broadcasting culture to interactive culture
    4. Early computer art & cybernetics
    5. Video art and video installation
    6. The emergence of interactivity, multimedia, new media art


    2. MEDIA ART AND ARTISTS 2 (27.2.2019 Wednesday)

    1. Screening: Enjoy Poverty by Renzo Martens
    2. Fishbowl discussion:  Enjoy Poverty
    3. Politics of gaze
    4. Surveillance/sousveillance, artist take on surveillance
    5. Performance (with technology)
    6. Bioarts, Art with ecological awareness
    7. Introduction to homework screening: The Goddess And The Computer by Andre Singer. (53:39)

    3. MEDIA ART AND ARTISTS 3 (28.2.2019 Thursday)

    1. Fishbowl discussion: The Goddess And The Computer
    2. Virtual spaces of simulation
    3. From Net Art to Post Internet Art
    4. Immersive environments, VR
    5. Introduction to homework screening: Hypernormalization by Adam Curtis. (2:46:31)

    4. MEDIA ART AND ARTISTS (1.3.2019 Friday)

    1. Fishbowl discussion: Hypernormalization
    2. Computational Creativity by Hannu TT Toivonen (Professor of Computer Science, University of Helsinki)
    3. Generative art, art produced with and by computers
    4. Post-participation, hyperobjects and radical witnessing
    5. Cyborg manifesto
    6. Neural networks and Artificial Intelligence in Art

    media art ends

    media culture title

    1. MASS MEDIA (5.3.2019 Tuesday)

    1. What is Media? + discussion
    2. Mass media and the fourth estate + discussion
    3. Introduction to homework screening: Frontline: The Facebook Dilemma part 1 and part 2 by PBS. Also on YLE Areena until the end of February. (55:02 + 54:55)


    2. HYPERMEDIA, NEW MEDIA & MEDIA INDUSTRY  (6.3.2019 Wednesday)

    1. Fishbowl discussion: The Facebook Dilemma
    2. Marshall McLuhan group activity
    3. Origins of the Internet and the WWW + discussion 
    4. Media industry by Iida Hietala
    5. Introduction to homework reading: Chris Anderson (2004): The long tail. In the Wired Magazine.


    3. MEDIA CULTURE: GLOBAL & LOCAL (7.3.2019 Thursday)

    1. Fishbowl discussion: the homework reading
    2. Geopolitics and "media” - hypothesis, conspiracies, possible histories + discussion
    3. Introduction to homework screening: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry by Alison Klayman (1:31:13)


    4. FUTURE OF MEDIA (8.3.2019 Friday)
    1. Fishbowl discussion: Never Sorry
    2. Demoscene by Markku Reunanen
    3. Study group working
    4. Status reports of the study groups

    media cultue end

    our media starts

    1. CONNECTIONS / WRAP UP I (12.3.2019 Tuesday)

    1. From gamer collections to critical game heritage: Understanding the history of Finnish games by Niklas Nylund
    2. Group work time
    3. Deadline for the video essay: Tuesday 12.3.2019 11:59 PM. Send TO Iida (iida.hietala@aalto.fi) CC Teemu (teemu.leinonen@aalto.fi) a link to the video.
    4. Introduction to homework screening: Black Mirror: Bandersnatch on Netflix. Average viewing time 90 minutes. 


    2. CONNECTIONS / WRAP UP II (13.3.2019 Wednesday)

    1. Fishbowl discussion: Bandersnatch
    2. Science Fiction Design by Akseli Anttila
    3. Your video essays + discussion

    3. PRESENTATIONS I (14.3.2019 Thursday)

    • Your video essays + discussion

    4.  AI × Creativity Talk Session 15.3.2019 (15.3.2019 Friday) 

    • Time: 9:00 - 11:00
    • Place: 15.3.2019, The Harald Herlin Learning Centre, Makerspace
    • Daiko Advertising Inc.introduces the AI trend in Japanese advertising, art and creative area
    •  The expert of AI or Creative from Aalto introduces up to the research trends

    our media end

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