Understanding Media Art is an introductory level 2 contextual studies course that focuses on themes and theories of media art with the aim of better understanding what media art is and why artists have used media technologies as the medium for their practice. The course looks at 20th century practices including the invention of recording technologies; the emergence of mass media; early computer mediated experimentalism; and new media art. Media art has been heavily theorised in its relatively short history, drawing on philosophy as well as on other disciplines, including communications, game theory, history and theory of science, cultural studies and art history. You will be able to develop projects that look into media art history or focus on contemporary media art, developing research questions that investigate themes and ideas that address historical practices media art.