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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, 28 January 2020.

    Location: G203 Experimental Studio, Väre

    Teachers: Teemu Leinonen, Emmi Kaila


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

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    1. INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE + MEDIA ART AND ARTISTS 1 (28.1.2020 Tuesday)

    1. Introduction: MyCourses + assignments + assessment
    2. Study groups and study topics
    3. What is Media Art? + discussion
    4. Early computer art & cybernetics
    5. Expanded cinema
    6. Introduction to homework reading: Posthumanism, Transhumanism, Antihumanism, Metahumanism, and New Materialisms — Differences and Relations by Francesca Ferrando

    2. MEDIA ART AND ARTISTS 2 (29.1.2020 Wednesday)

    1. Fishbowl discussion: " Posthumanism . . ." by Francesca Ferrando
    2. Lecture by Hannu Toivonen (10:00-11:00)
    3. Lecture by Kasperi Mäki-Reinikka (11:00-12:00)


    3. MEDIA ART AND ARTISTS 3 (30.1.2020 Thursday)

    1. Visit to AV-Arkki in Kaapelitehdas, Tallberginkatu 1 C 76 (9.30 - 10.30)
    2. Internet Art / Net Art
    3. Immersive art, VR
    4. Introduction to homework screening: Hypernormalization (2:46) by Adam Curtis


    4. MEDIA ART AND ARTISTS (31.1.2020 Friday)

    1. Fishbowl discussion: Hypernormalization
    2. Hactivism
    3. Lecture by Nitin Sawhney (10:30-12:00)


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    1. MASS MEDIA (4.2.2020 Tuesday)

    1. What is Media? + discussion
    2. Mass media and the fourth estate + discussion
    3. Lecture by Iida Hietala (10 - 11)
    4. Introduction to homework screening: The Great Hack | Netflix (you should get access to Netflix to watch the movie :-( )


    2. HYPERMEDIA, NEW MEDIA & MEDIA INDUSTRY  (5.2.2020 Wednesday)

    1. Fishbowl discussion: The Great Hack | Netflix 
    2. Lecture by Akseli Anttila (10 - 11)
    3. Origins of the Internet and the WWW
    4. Introduction to homework reading: Chris Anderson (2004): The long tail. In the Wired Magazine. 

    3. MEDIA CULTURE: GLOBAL & LOCAL (6.2.2020 Thursday)

    1. Fishbowl discussion: the homework reading
    2. Geopolitics and media
    3. Screening: Episode 3: 'Enjoy Poverty’ by Renzo Martens (1:27)

    4. FUTURE OF MEDIA (7.2.2020 Friday)
    1. Fishbowl discussion:' Enjoy Poverty’
    2. Demoscene by Markku Reunanen (10:00-11:30)
    3. Study group working
    4. Status reports of the study groups

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    1. CONNECTIONS / WRAP UP I (11.2.2020 Tuesday)

    • Group work time


    2. CONNECTIONS / WRAP UP II (12.2.2020 Wednesday)

    • Group work time
    • Deadline for the video essay: Wednesday 12.2.2020 11:59 PM. Send TO Emmi  (Emmi.kaila@aalto.fi) CC Teemu (teemu.leinonen@aalto.fi) a link to the video.


    3. PRESENTATIONS I (13.2.2020 Thursday)

    • Your video essays + discussion

    Presentations (max. 30 min/ group)

    1. Open Source and Literature (Group 7, coordinator L. V.):

    2. Identity and Music (Group 1, coordinator: J. X.)

    3. Virtual Reality and Dance (Group 2, coordinator: T. K.)

    4. Gender and media and Journalism (Group 3, coordinator: A. N.)

    5. Open Source and Photography (Group 4, coordinator: P. M.)


    4.  PRESENTATIONS II (14.2.2020 Friday) 

    • Your video essays + discussion
    Presentations (max 30 min/ group)
    1. Consumer Culture and Literature (Group 5, coordinator: E. K.)

    2. Augmented Reality and Theatre (Group 6, coordinator: S. A.)

    3. Arfiticial Intelligence and Music (Group 9, coordinator: J. P.)

    4. Augmented Reality and Journalism (Group 8, coordinator: M. K.)

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