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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, everyday 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).


    > To take notes together you may use the Etherpad of the course
    > Slack Channel of the course

    media culture title

    1. INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE + MASS MEDIA (26.2.2019 Tuesday)

    1. Introduction: MyCourses + assignments + assessment
    2. Study groups and study topics
    3. What is Media? + discussion
    4. Mass media and the fourth estate + discussion
    5. Introduction to homework reading: Moulthrop, S. (1991) You say you want a revolution? Hypertext and the laws of media. In The New Media Reader (pp. 692 - 704)


    2. HYPERMEDIA, NEW MEDIA & MEDIA INDUSTRY  (27.2.2019 Wednesday)

    1. Fishbowl discussion: the homework reading
    2. Marshall McLuhan group activity
    3. Origins of 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 (28.2.2019 Thursday)

    1. Fishbowl discussion: the homework reading
    2. Demoscene by Markku Reunanen
    3. Geopolitics and "media” - hypothesis, conspiracies, possible histories + discussion
    4. Introduction to homework reading: Turkle, S.  (2011): Conclusion: Necessary conversations. In the Alone together. 


    4. FUTURE OF MEDIA (29.2.2019 Friday)

    1. Fishbowl discussion: the homework reading
    2. From SciFi media to future design by Akseli Anttila 
    3. Study group working
    4. Status reports of the study groups

    media cultue end

    media art starts

    1. MEDIA ART AND ARTISTS 1 (5.3.2019 Tuesday)

    1. Early computer art & cybernetics
    2. Video art and video installation
    3. Emergence of interactivity, multimedia and installations, new media art
    4. Participatory forms of making, hacktivism
    5. Introduction to homework screening: Enjoy Poverty by Renzo Martens.


    2. MEDIA ART AND ARTIST 2  (6.3.2019 Wednesday)

    1. Fishbowl discussion:  Enjoy Poverty
    2. Generative art, art produced with computer software
    3. Bioarts, Art and ecological awareness
    4. Surveillance | sousveillance, artist take on surveillance
    5. Introduction to homework screening: Lo and behold by Werner Herzog. Available on Netflix.

    3. MEDIA ART AND ARTISTS 3 (7.3.2019 Thursday)

    1. Fishbowl discussion: Lo and behold 
    2. Lecture by Raivo Kelomees, PhD, senior researcher, Faculty of Fine Arts, Estonian Academy of Arts: From Net Art to Post Internet Art
    3. Introduction to homework screening: Hypernormalization by Adam Curtis 


    4. COMPUTING AND ART (8.3.2019 Friday) 

    1. Fishbowl discussion: Hypernormalization
    2. Lecture by Hannu TT Toivonen, Professor of Computer Science, University of Helsinki: Computational Creativity

    Computational creativity is the study of creative behavior by computational means. This includes machine creativity, i.e., creative computers, as well support of human creativity by computational means, and study of creative computational processes. In this introductory lecture, I will touch on some key concepts and questions of machine creativity. Can computers be creative? In what sense? How to describe and analyse their potential creativity?

         3.  Cyborg manifesto, Neural networks and Artificial Intelligence in Art

    media art ends

    our media starts

    1. CONNECTIONS / WRAP UP I (12.3.2019 Tuesday)

    1. Games, the history by Annakaisa Kultima 
    2. Introduction to homework screening: Rise of the Video Game: Level 1
    3. Group work time


    2. CONNECTIONS / WRAP UP II (13.3.2019 Wednesday)

    1. Online fishbowl with webdialogos.fi -service.
    2. Deadline for the video essay: Wednesday 7.3.2018 11:59 PM. Send TO Iida (iida.hietala@aalto.fi) CC Teemu (teemu.leinonen@aalto.fi) a link to the video.


    3. PRESENTATIONS I (14.3.2019 Thursday)

    • Your video essays + discussion


    4. PRESENTATIONS II (15.3.2019 Friday) 

    • Your video essays + discussion

    our media end

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