UNSW Handbook Course - Theories of the Digital

Theories of the Digital - SAHT2218


	Faculty: College of Fine Arts
	School: School of Art History and Art Education
	Course Outline: Download course outline (PDF format)
	Campus: College of Fine Arts Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
	Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Excluded: 4810 Bachelor of Digital Media students.
	CSS Contribution Charge:Band 1 (more info)
	Tuition Fee:See Tuition Fee Schedule
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

This subject explores theoretical frameworks within which the content, meaning, aesthetics and impact of digital and new media practice can be critically analysed and evaluated. Topics covered include metaphors of convergence and divergence that structure digital media and aesthetic production; interfaces (particularly the interface between the body and technology), theories of the real, virtuality, materiality and immateriality, and concepts of post-media and software aesthetics. Experimental, innovative and conceptually sophisticated practitioners and current critical debates and theories relating to digital media are considered.

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