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In this core research seminar students will engage in the critical analysis and evaluation of different theoretical approaches and concepts that address multi-, trans- and intermedial relations between (forms of) media, art and performance.
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In this course, students will examine the academic debates and concepts which discuss the different ways in which media, art and performance relate to one another, in particular in terms of media combination, transposition and intermedial reference. However, many of the key terms are used and conceptualized differently. This goes in particular for three of the key terms, multimediality, transmediality and intermediality, which are used in very broad and very specific ways. It often remains unspecified what is meant by the concept of "medium” or “mediality”. These concepts might refer to sign systems, forms of art, media and performance, institutionalized practices or frameworks, materialities or technologies. Most contributions to these debates are developed from the perspective of specific disciplines and only a few discuss these topics on a meta-theoretical level. In the seminar we will examine the academic debates on media relationships by trying to find out: what are the guiding interests, historical and theoretical perspectives and key issues of the debates; what models of discourse could be distinguished; what are the key concepts; what kind of objects or phenomena are referred to? We will focus on issues of medium specificities, media borders and how in the synergy of media these might be crossed or blurred and result into new modes of making, perceiving and experiencing media.
Career Orientation:
Students develop advanced research and writing skills in preparation for a professional career as academic or professional researcher.
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