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Friday, 2010-09-10

Offered Learning Events:

  • (SE, WO) Introduction to Intermodal Expressive Arts
  • (SE, WO) Strategies and Tactics of Electronic Narrative
  • (SE, ME) Practicum in Digital Arts
  • (SE, WO, LE) Digital Media: Human Communication in the Twenty-First Century
  • (LE) Arts and Society, current Themes in Research
  • (WO) Atelier with Artist in Residence
  • (EX) Excursion focused on a Cultural

Theme Readings:
Selected and communicated by lecturer

  • Active Presence (AP)
  • Oral Dispute (OD)
  • Portfolio (PF)
  • Presentation (PRe)
  • Thesis (TH)
  • Seminar (SE)
  • Colloquium (CO)
  • Lecture (LE)
  • Project (PRo)
  • Mentoring (ME)
  • Excursion (EX)
  • Workshop (WO)

Elective: Module ITS M (Expressive Arts, Digital Arts and Media) – 16 cp

21 Days for the following learning events:

Introduction to Intermodal Expressive Arts 4 cp
Strategies and Tactics of Electronic Narrative 4 cp
Practicum in Digital Arts 4 cp
Digital Media: Human Communication in the Twenty-First Century 4 cp

The specialization in Expressive Arts, Digital Arts and Media (16 cp) may be counted as module K (focus on Intemodal Arts).
It serves also as a continuing education.

Self-Study / Assessment Methods:

Expressive arts, digital arts and media projects in group settings with both peer and self-evaluations;
study of literature on expressive arts, digital arts and media;
preparation and presentation online of a digital arts work;
participation in expressive arts, digital arts and media studio.

  • Entrance Qualification (E): Successful participation of an Introductory Seminar
  • Module Exams (M): Presentation of a digital arts and media work
Total Workload Self-Study Presence Time
(Modules)
480 hours 320 hours 160 hours

Key Qualifications:

  • Experience in handling different digital art disciplines. Reflection on the act lab processes and transfer to practice. 
  • Being exposed to contemporary digital art and media and have an understanding of its history. 
  • Create a work of one’s own in a discipline of digital art and media, accompanied by a specialist (mentor). Demonstrate artistic perseverance.
  • Training of high sensibility in intermodal expressive arts oriented methods.
  • Instruction and evaluation of arts oriented processes of change.

Competencies acquired in this module:

The student is able to:

Self Competencies:

  • To sharpen critical thinking in regard to digital communication and media
  • Increased confidence to draw on personal skills and artistic capacities
  • Recognize own cultural frames that influence personal art-making
  • Strengthen personal capacities to link aesthetic practices
  • To develop and / or deepen a personal style while being open minded to surprises
  • To recognize challenges and cope through the artistic process
  • To reach workable solutions with endurance
  • To cope and reflect artistic process

Social Competencies:

  • Learn from different cultures
  • Communicate one’s own culture online
  • Mobilize and enhance community engagement through digital media
  • Become proficient in online social interaction
  • Teach others to relate online in an open and sensitive manner
  • To handle the artistic performance in a social context and to cultivate autonomy within cultural and social context
  • To take part in a constructive way in the decision-making processes (individuals and groups)
  • To cultivate an appropriate style in handling conflicts
  • To validate the artistic processes and works of art
  • To distinguish between group processes and the own person

Professional Competencies:

  • Develop proficiency in visual grammar and time-based media
  • Learn to “frame” events responsibility
  • Enhance knowledge of computer-based art
  • Understand digital media in a therapeutic context
  • Develop skills in electronic journalism
  • Learn to conduct critical analysis of electronic censorship
  • Understand liminality, imagination, and alternative worlding in a digital context
  • To determine the peculiarity and effectiveness of different new media art disciplines and to know how and when to apply them
  • To create a work of new media art until it is conclusive and to present it

Methodological Competencies:

  • To recognize and guide techniques of low skill and high sensitivity
  • Learn to think poetically and philosophically in the digital mode
  • Create online virtual communities as spaces for healing
  • Learn to use digital media as a community-building tool
  • Develop skills in digital storytelling
  • To cope with techniques in each field with competence so that the client’s individual articulateness can be developed
  • To understand and use an intermodal process
  • To explore and evaluate the method of intermodal decentering and its didactic steps
  • (SERA, MORE, OPER) in small sequences
  • To shape the artistic dialogue in the correlation of work of art, process and client
  • To face the work phenomenologically (aesthetic analyses)