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Course Overview
DXARTS 200
DIGITAL ART AND NEW MEDIA: HISTORY, THEORY, AND PRACTICE

Meeting Times: Asynchronous

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course investigates and illuminates Digital Art and New Media from a creative, theoretical, and historical perspective. Towards an exploration and discovery of the future of art, this course will examine the paradigm shifts implicit in the inception and expansion of media art, as well as the dynamic core ideas that underscore digital art practices in the early XXI century. Specific topics of study will encompass Video Art, Interactive Installations, Virtual and Augmented Environments, Internet and Post-Internet Art, Media Performance, Physical and Wearable Computing, Sound Art, BioArt and the convergence of Art and Science in general, which will be approached by lectures from the course instructors, guest lectures as well as interviews from practitioners within each field.

During the course students will be encouraged to cultivate their own artistic vision by participating in a series of video lectures, online discussions and related assignments. The goal of this course is to provide emergent artists, designers, engineers and theorists with the necessary historical and scientific background to create, design, speculate and articulate innovative digital artwork.

If you get a message telling you that you do not have access to any lecture videos, click on Panopto Recordings in the course navigation menu then try again.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

To be introduced to the work and research of the Department of Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS).
To outline the paradigm shift that led to the birth of New Media Art.
To acquaint students with the field of Computational Art by discussing the work of pioneering artists within the field.
To establish an understanding of the history and practices of art in Virtual and Augmented environments (VR/AR/XR).
To examine the history of Electroacoustic Music and to identify key figures within the field.
To construct an understanding of the medium of Sound as Art, and to be able to execute discussions and critique examples of sound works.
To investigate the ways in which Code and Algorithms can be used as artistic mediums.
To inspect and analyze art that has used the Internet as a medium of investigation in its practice.
To outline the interaction between Art and Science and analyse the ways in which these two fields intersect.
To approximate the concept and techniques of Speculative Art and Design. To investigate the work of artists and designers from the field and formulate an understanding of its critical, adversarial and interrogative aspects.

STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES AND REQUIREMENTS

Watch all online lectures
Complete weekly reading assignments
Participate in online discussions and provide feedback to peers
Complete assignments
Complete online quizzes
Complete a final project

POLICIES

Late work is not accepted.
Backup your data. No excuses for losing essays, web documents, images, etc. Keep at least three copies of everything: one on your computer, one on removable media, and one on-line.

GRADING

Discussion board posts - 15%
Two quizzes - 30%
Five Assignments - 25%
Final Project - 30%

Click Grading Scale (https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1663455/pages/grading-system) to see the full grading scale for this course

DISCUSSION BOARDS

After every lesson the students will have to participate in a group discussion on the lecture material and there will be small assignments following the video-lectures which aim to further their understanding of the class content. They will be asked to comment on the compulsory readings and exchange ideas and opinions, as well as provide feedback to their peers. Their participation in the discussion boards will be evaluated on the level of commitment to the class material and their further exploration of the topics presented by the instructors.

QUIZZES

Quiz 1: Lessons 1-5

Quiz 2: Lessons 6-10

The quizzes consist of 25 multiple choice questions incorporating material from the lectures and the compulsory readings. The questions may require an understanding of the content of the lectures (either from the instructor, or from the guests) that will have been described and analysed even more in the discussion board.

ASSIGNMENTS

Assignment 1: Synthesis & Hypertext

Assignment 2: Feedback

Assignment 3: Electroacoustic Concert review

Assignment 4: Interface

Assignment 5: Final Project Progress Report

Final project: Artwork of the Future

ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTIONS

Assignment 1: Synthesis & Hypertext (https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1663455/assignments/8686100)

Read closely the short story Binti by science fiction writer Nnedi Okorafor.

Submit to Canvas:

A short text in PDF (max 550 words) describing how the text relates to the idea of Afrofuturism: a kind of fiction that brings together hist and experiences of American and African-descended people with fantasy and science fiction in order to image alternative futures and life possibilities for black individuals and communities.
A visualized diagram in PDF using Hypertext, inspired by ideas of the text about your own cultural identity and imagining alternative futures for the place you inhabit. You can collect keywords from the original text or invent your own and link them with other words, texts, images, videos, or sounds.

Feel free to use any material for your Hypertext diagram - paper, fabric, 3d sculpture, digital image with links to videos or sounds - just submit a digital version of it. Be creative!

Assignment 2: Feedback (https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1663455/assignments/8686101? module_item_id=19270624)

Take a single, blank sheet of Letter sized (or A4) paper, and transform it so that it operates according to the properties of new media art and systems aesthetics we learned. Perhaps, you could use the paper as an example of input/output feedback system. What you do to the paper is not restricted to writing or drawing: you may fax it, print on it, clone it, burn it, fold it, crumpl it, measure it, stick things on it, cut it, atomically deconstruct it, post it, place it, exhibit it, anything that you like.

For the submission, document your project in any media (photo, sound, video) and submit the documentation with a description of your process (350 words max).

Assignment 3: Electroacoustic Concert Review (https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1663455/assignments/8686102? module_item_id=19270642)

Listen/watch one of the previous DXARTS concerts and write a review of the event. Upload your review on Canvas in a PDF, or DOCX format. Tips:
Take a point of view. Explain why you did or didn't like the event (or the works above) and justify your reasons with concrete examples, comparisons, and references.
Comment on the structure and different parts of the composition/improvisation. How did it start, develop and end? Was there a narrative behind it?
What kind of images, memories or emotions did it evoke?

Assignment 4: Physical Interface (https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1663455/assignments/8686103? module_item_id=19270652)

Design a physical interface for performance in a public space (it could be some sort of device that is autonomous, or it could be a system of several devices, it could be a wearable or a haptic interface). How will your artwork interact with people in public and what kind of experience would you like to evoke? Try to incorporate the idea of systems art that was introduced in the class, and how your work expresses the system, i.e. what are the input, output, throughput and feedback mechanisms of the work.

Describe your artwork in the context of past works reviewed in DXARTS 200, and create visual documentation to further imagine how the work will be experienced.

Provide one written page (at least 350 words) of description, and attach reference web links or media such as photos, images, diagrams, videos, or sounds to support your artwork. Make sure you include footnotes of reference material. Bring your description and any visual/aural material to present in the discussion section. Submit the assignment to Canvas.

Assignment 5: Final Project Progress Report (%24CANVAS_OBJECT_REFERENCE%24/assignments/g0937d3fe1ecfa68e2e171c327c6a 1d1?module_item_id=gf88065536267a05c8d0d166abd7b0aa1)

Submit a progress report on your final project. The work proposed should reflect on at least one of the topics that we have covered in class.

Be ready for a discussion on your project in the class. This assignment helps you refine your project research. Make sure to incorporate your classmates’ and instructor’s feedback into your final project research and what resonates best with you. Submit the draft version via Canvas.

FINAL PROJECT: ARTWORK OF THE FUTURE (https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1663455/assignments/8686104? module_item_id=19270682)

All students must complete a mini proposal of an imaginary new media artwork. The work has to be presented as if it exists, but it is not required to create it physically/or digitally. Employ the use of prototyping techniques discussed in the lecture to create parafiction about the work. The work proposed should reflect on at least one of the topics that we have covered in class. It should be richly illustrated, have an abstract, historical background, visual/sonic references, timeline, the venue of the project research section. The project seeks work which demonstrates imagination, work ethic, and an ability to assemble the course materials into a meaningful and profound set of possibilities of what might be.