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Electronic and Digital Aesthetics - MEFT3102
Media, Film and Theatre

 
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  School of English, Media and Performing Arts
 
 
Course Outline: See below
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: 72 units of credit
 
 
Excluded: MDCM3102
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Investigates the role of the senses in the way that people engage with electronic and digital media in a variety of contexts, including electronic and digital art, everyday and domestic media technologies, and popular cultural uses such as electronic music, computer games and digital image technologies. Considers how the traditional relation of aesthetics to culture might be changing as the result of electronic and digital media technologies.


Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, students will have:
  • Developed a wide range of approaches to contemporary media developments, in the form of both relevant traditions of ideas and prominent contemporary theories
  • Be better able to engage thoughtfully with the manner in which sensation and feeling are worked through electronic and digital technology, and to engage with the cultural changes this implies
  • Deepened the understanding within which they can situate new media practices
  • Be better able to engage with specific examples of new media practice, both in everyday life and in the realm of new media art
  • Gained a clear overview of key ideas concerning art and aesthetics
  • Gained some basic knowledge of the role of sensation in culture, in the use of technology, and in human thought.

Assessment

  • Tutorial presentation (x2) - 20%
  • Short essay/Case study - 30%
  • Individual/ Group research report - 40%
  • Participation - 10%

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