Art and new media

lhart2360  2019-2020  Louvain-la-Neuve

Art and new media
Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
5 credits
30.0 h
Q1

This biannual learning unit is being organized in 2019-2020
Teacher(s)
Streitberger Alexander;
Language
French
Prerequisites
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Main themes
The course discusses specific interpretation problems concerning the impact of new media in art related to aspects of creation, distribution, documentation and perception of art.
Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

1 Application of analytical methods concerning pictures produced by new media like photography, film, video and digital images.
 

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Content
The course gives a critical introduction in the relationship between still and moving image within modern and contemporary art and visual culture. 
The class will adapt a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, in order to analyze how the encounter of photography and film takes place across different media such as photography, cinema, the photographic novel, and video.
Theoretical approaches from different disciplines (art history, film studies, photography theory, visual studies) will be used to understand aesthetic practices and concepts such as montage, panorama, tableau vivant and sequentiality.
Teaching methods
Lectures by the course tacher and by guest speakers, personal reading by students.
Evaluation methods
Written examination.
Other information
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Online resources
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Bibliography
David Campany (ed.), The Cinematic, New York (MIT Press), 2007.
David Green, Joanna Lowry (eds.), Stillness and Time. Photography and the Moving Image, Photoworks (Brighton), 2006.
Victor Burgin, The Remembered Film, London (Reaktion Books), 2004.
Faculty or entity
ARKE


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Master [60] in History of Art and Archaeology : General

Advanced Master in Visual Cultures

Master [120] in History of Art and Archaeology : General

Master [120] in History of Art and Archaeology: Musicology

Master [120] in Philosophy