This interdisciplinary multimedia course draws upon and aims to bring together ideas and paradigms from computer science, art, music, and cultural theory. It will take on a collaborative design where students will be expected to work with each other on sound and video pieces.
Multimedia students will have a solid ground in the conceptual, social, and historical uses and production of time-based media. We will treat time-based media from the perspective of art production. This means that we will encourage creative thinking over mass media dogmas and operate from a critical perspective. This class will prepare students to mediate between the worlds of technology, the arts, and culture at large by being equally proficient with computing and cultural concepts.
The goal of this course is to prepare the next generation of artists and creators to function within a computer-mediated culture. It will give students necessary technical, theoretical, and historical backgrounds so they can contribute to the development of new aesthetics for computer media.