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In this course students will practice: reading, analyzing and discussing academic texts; recognizing, describing, analyzing and discussing different screen phenomena; academic presentation skills- academic writing skills; academic collaboration. After successfully completing this course, students will be able to: recognize and better understand the relationship between (screen) technologies and practices, and the spatial, material, performative aspects of the screen technologies and practices; digest academic writing on an advanced level; articulate valid research questions about screen technologies and practices from a (historical) comparative perspective; conduct a comparative analysis of (historical and/or contemporary) screen phenomena
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In this course we will investigate the relationship between screen technologies and culturally-embedded screen practices, specifically in public and urban contexts. Screen phenomena beside the classical "cinematic" and "televisual" screen that will be discussed and analyzed are: urban screens, mobile screens, location-based technologies, VR and AR, video mapping and other outdoor light projections, interactive screen-based installations, media architecture, etc. The focus of our analyses will be instances of change and innovation, as well as the comparison of different and/or converging media forms. Zooming in on moments when new spaces are created by new screens and screen-based constellations and their spatial design, the perspective that we will develop in this course is a historically-informed comparative analysis. For this, we will reflect on theories about the specificity of screen technologies, location-based media practices, and spatial, material and physical, and performative aspects of screen uses, and the screens’ users or spectators. Starting points for our inquiries will be offered by current debates about technological innovation and cultural change, about transmediality and intermediality, and questions about medium specificity, hybridity and convergence, as well as reflections on materiality in an age of digitization. You will work collaboratively on a website or special issue for a (fictive) journal that deals with a specific screen phenomenon, for which you will analyse in an individual contribution a case study that addresses a research question based on the course literature and sub topics.
Key words: media archeology, comparative screen studies, theory of screen media, mobile media theory, theory of location-based media and arts, urban media studies.
This course is part of Verdiepingspakket Film and Media Culture and builds on knowledge and skills introduced and trained in Basispakket 1 en 2 Media and Culture. In this Verdiepingspakket students deepen their historical and theoretical knowledge of audiovisual media and train academic skills that are specific to the field.
This course is part of Verdiepingspakket Film and mediaculture and builds on knowledge and skills introduced and trained in Basispakket 1 en 2 Media and Culture. In this Verdiepingspakket students deepen their historical and theoretical knowledge of audiovisual media and train academic skills that are specific to the field.
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