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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, 29 September, 09:00

    Location:  Zoom (link to the session room)

    Teachers: Teemu Leinonen, Hanna Haaslahti, Emmi Kaila

    > Slack Channel of the course

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    1. INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE + MEDIA ART AND ARTISTS 1 (29.9. 9:00-)

    1. Introduction: MyCourses + assignments + assessment

    Study groups and study topics
    2. Lecture : Introduction to media art
    Media archeology
    Early computer art & cybernetics
    Expanded cinema
    3. Lecture by Hannu T. Toivonen (11:00-12:00): Computational creativity
    Professor Hannu Toivonen is a leading expert in data mining and computational creativity. He has introduced and solved several novel research problems in the area of data mining since the field was born in early 1990s; his definitions and algorithms have become standard references and textbook material in the field. He has since developed applications of data mining for gene mapping, context-aware computation, document analysis and summarization, computational creativity, and natural language generation.

    4. Introduction to homework reading: Posthumanism, Transhumanism, Antihumanism, Metahumanism, and New Materialisms — Differences and Relations by Francesca Ferrando

    2. MEDIA ART AND ARTISTS 2 (30.9. 9:00-)

    1. Fishbowl discussion : Posthumanism, Transhumanism, Antihumanism, Metahumanism, and New Materialisms, Differences and Relations

    2. Lecture : Politics of gaze and participation
    The emergence of interactivity, multimedia, new media art

    Surveillance/sousveillance, artist take on surveillance

    Bioart

    Hacktivism

    3. MEDIA ART AND ARTISTS 3 (1.10. 8:45-)

    1. Lecture by Jenna Sutela (9:00-10:00)
    Jenna Sutela works with words, sounds, and other living media, such as Bacillus subtilis nattō bacteria and the “many-headed” slime mold Physarum polycephalum. Her audiovisual pieces, sculptures, and performances seek to identify and react to precarious social and material moments, often in relation to technology. Sutela's work has been presented at museums and art contexts internationally, including Guggenheim Bilbao, Moderna Museet, and Serpentine Galleries. She is a Visiting Artist at The MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) in 2019-20.
     

    2. Screening: Enjoy Poverty by Renzo Martens

    4. MEDIA ART AND ARTISTS (2.10. 9:00-)

    1. Fishbowl discussion: Enjoy Poverty
    2. Lecture : Virtual spaces of simulation
        Internet Art
        Screening : Parallel by Harun Farocki
    3. Lecture : Generative Art
    Neural networks and Artificial Intelligence in Art
    Immersive art, VR

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    1. MASS MEDIA & MEDIA INDUSTRY (6.10. 9:00-)

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

    2. HYPERMEDIA, NEW MEDIA, FUTURE OF MEDIA  (7.10. 9:00-)

    1. Fishbowl discussion: The Social Dilemma | 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 (8.10. 9:00-)

    1. Fishbowl discussion: the homework reading
    2. Geopolitics and media
    3.  Introduction to homework screening: Hypernormalization by Adam Curtis (2:46)

    4. FUTURE OF MEDIA (9.10. 9:00-)
    1. Fishbowl discussion: 'Hypernormalization’
    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. STUDIO I (13.10. 9:00-)

    • Group work morning coffee at 9:00
    • ISEA presentations

    2. STUDIO II (14.10. 9:00-)

    • Group work morning coffee at 9:00
    • ISEA presentations

    3. PRESENTATIONS I (15.10. 9:00-)

    • Your video essays + discussion

    2. PRESENTATIONS II (16.10. 9:00-)

    • Your video essays + discussion

    Presentations (max. 30 min/ group)

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