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New Media Studies

A core course that introduces Bachelors and Masters level students to the emerging field of New Media Studies.
Taught by Ass. Prof. Mriganka Madhukaillya

  • Syllabus
    Study of History of modern visual and media cultures. Conventions and techniques of old media: rectangular frame, mobile viewpoint and montage. Relationship between language of multimedia and nineteenth century pro-cinematic cultural forms; Functions of screen, mobile camera, and montage in new media as compared to cinema; Theory of Cultural Interfaces. Study of Principles of New Media. Discrete representation, Numerical representation, Automation, Variability. Concept of new media object. Changing relationship of representation. Database as genre of new media. Logic of remediation. Concept of digital dialectic. Digital Cinema and the history of moving Image. The new language of cinema. Forms of new media: Installations, Sound art, Net art. Free software movement and open source. New media art installation and cross-media practice. Media art as intercommunicative process. Interactivity and interface: Models of interactive systems. Computation as expressive medium. Aspects of Tactical Media. The Cyborg Manifesto.
  • References
    1. R. Grusin and J. D. Bolter, Remediation: Understanding New Media, MIT Press, 2000.
    2. L. Manovich, The Language of New Media, MIT Press, 2001.
    3. P. Lunenfeld (ed.), The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media, MIT Press, 1999.
    4. N. Wardrip-Fruin and N. Montfort (eds.), The New Media Reader, MIT Press, 2003.
    5. M. Hansen, New Philosophy for New Media, MIT Press, 2004.
    6. J. Thackara, In the Bubble – Designing in a complex World, Prentice Hall India, 2005.