This module is not currently running in 2024 to 2025.
This module introduces you to key aspects of media production building on the conceptual and critical skill you developed in the first year (photo/video editing, media analysis, programming). To achieve this, you will develop and produce artworks, learn to work with media ecologies and apply creative thinking.
40 Contact Hours
260 Independent study
Total Study Hours: 300
100% Coursework
• Elwes, Catherine. 2015. Installation and the Moving Image. Columbia University Press
• Flusser, Vilem. 2011. Into the Universe of Technical Images. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
• Licht, Alan. 2007. Sound art: beyond music, between categories. New York, N.Y.: Rizzoli Int. Publication.
• Margolis, Michael. 2012. Arduino cookbook. Beijing, Farnham: O'Reilly.
• Penz, Francois and Maureen Thomas (eds). 2013. Architectures of Illusion: From Motion Pictures to Navigable Interactive Environments. Intellect.
• Reas, Casey and Ben Fry. 2016. Processing: a programming handbook for visual designers and artists. Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press.
• Stern, Nathaniel (ed). 2013. Interactive Art and Embodiment: The Implicit Body as Performance. Canterbury, Gylphi Limited.
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
1. Have awareness of different contexts / environments where digital media are used.
2. Understand the relations between media and the environments where they are found.
3. Have developed technical skills in the production and conceptualisation of media artworks.
4. Document and reflect on processes applied in the development of media environments.
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