PUBLIC ART AND DIGITIZATION PRACTICES
- Academic year
- 2024/2025 Syllabus of previous years
- Official course title
- PUBLIC ART AND DIGITIZATION PRACTICES
- Course code
- FM0497 (AF:508211 AR:284974)
- Modality
- On campus classes
- ECTS credits
- 6
- Degree level
- Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
- Educational sector code
- L-ART/03
- Period
- 3rd Term
- Course year
- 1
- Where
- VENEZIA
- Moodle
- Go to Moodle page
Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals
The course, divided into 30 hours, is part of the Master’s Degree Programme in ‘Digital and Public Humanities’ and is connected to the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH) in the Department of Humanities.
The course aims to guide the students through the knowledge of artistic practices, from the avant-gardes of the 20th century to the production of digital art, which led to the conception of the first idea of a virtual museum.
Expected learning outcomes
- Application of knowledge and understanding: ability to recognise the different digital expressions of online collections and to understand the use of specific digital tools adopted by museums for different purposes.
- Understanding: the ability to analyse the digital representation of art in the online and virtual museum, to argue using language and correct formal analysis;
- Communication skills: ability to use appropriate terminology, to comment on and communicate the results of the student's work; to interact with colleagues and professors with respect and effectiveness.
Pre-requirements
Contents
The role of the museum institution will be examined. The online component has become an exhibition context, a place for the preservation of digital artworks, from net art to generative art, and a platform for interaction with the public. Finally, recent productions dealing with Artificial Intelligence will be examined, both for creative purposes and for exploring production methods and artistic research.
Attention will be paid to the forms of representation of works of art, highlighting the role of digital productions from the artistic field and the creative cultural industries collaborating in curating and interpreting museum spaces to improve access to knowledge of works of art.
A section of the course will focus on digital art production using artificial intelligence algorithms, looking at the latest trends in artistic creativity.
The aim of the lectures, which complement the study of the texts in the bibliography, is to provide tools for understanding the phenomenology of artistic processes that use digital media and make use of the pool of data made available by the open-access collections of museums.
Referral texts
C. Paul, Digital Art, Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2015.
C. Paul, A Companion to Digital Art, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2016.
T. Giannini, J. P. Bowen, Museums and Digital Culture. New Perspectives and Research, Springer 2019.
L. Manovich, AI Aesthetics, Strelka press 2019.
Cohen, K., Elkins, J., Aronberg Lavin, M., Macko, N., Schwartz, G., Siegrfied L., S, Stafford, B., Digital Culture and the Practices of Art and Art history, in «Art bulletin», 79, n.2 (1997), pp.187-216.
D. England, T. Schiphorst, N. Bryan-Kins (edited by), Curating the Digital. Space for Art and Interaction, Springer, 2016
Frieling, R., The Museum as producer: Processing Art and Performing a Collection, in New Collecting: Exhibiting and Audience after New Media Art, a cura di Graham, B., London, New York, Ashgate, 2014, pp.133-158.
Grasskamp, W., The Book on the Floor: Andre Malraux and the Imaginary Museum, Getty Research Institute, 2016.
Grau, O. The Complex and Multifarious Expression of Digital Art & Its Impact on Archives and Humanities, in A Companion to Digital Art, a cura di C. Paul, Wiley, Blackwell, Chichester, 2016, pp. 23-45.
Hall, D., The Original and the Reproduction: Art in the Age of Digital Technology, «Visual Resources», 15, nNo. 2(1999), pp. 269-278.
Assessment methods
The evaluation will take into account the following elements
- The scholarly quality of the critical essay on the project developed (30%);
- The theoretical depth of the topics (30%);
- The clarity and accuracy of the project presentation (30%).
- The level of interaction in the lectures, seminar activities, and conferences offered (10%).
The exam program for non-attending students remains the same, but they must contact the teacher to agree on the topic to develop.
Attendance is strongly recommended.
Teaching methods
Lectures will be integrated with seminars, workshops, and in-class student presentations and debates.
The texts covered and discussed in class, with any supporting tools, are provided by the teacher during the course and made available on the Moodle platform. These texts, collected in a list at the end of the course, are an integral part of the exam program.
Teaching language
Further information
Type of exam
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