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
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:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)