heory and Practice of New Media and Performance Art

At the end of the course, students should be able to: 1. understand the nature of the new media; 2. appreciate its theoretical foregrounding; 3. thematic on its peculiarities; and 4. engage practice in the genre.

The fatigue that modernist artists expressed about the conventions in painting and sculpture and incorporating ready-mades and genre objects within the art field forms the background to this course. From its postmodern perspective, the course evaluates the new media from the multimedia context. It evaluates the interactive contexts in which the new media are appropriated in the visual arts. It thermalizes performance-driven genres such as the performance art in multimedia and studio performances - the gallery/studio informal/stage - conceptual trends and the spectacle they endear. Studio assignments feature texts for performance on personal narratives, memories, collective histories, and enactments in video documentations of not more than three minutes. 400 LEVEL NEW MEDIA ART