This course will focus on different concepts of time and space emerging in DV content development in the Digital Arts. The students will develop professional proposal writing and researching skills. This course will continue to fine tune the students’ video making skills through class work, research and the delivery of a major DV project. Students will become exposed to a variety of uses for digital media.

Assessment is by a series of assignments, and a final presentation of the major project to the Viva Examinaton panel.

Assignments (50%), Major Project (50%)

All sessions take place in a computer laboratory:

3 hours of seminar / studio practice per week

Students are expected to do at least an extra 4 - 6 hours of independent studio practice each week

DART1005 Screen Fixation

• Watkinson, John, The Art of Digital Video, Oxford: Focal Press, Third edition 2000.
• Manovich, Lev, The Language of New Media, Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, 2001.
• Shaw, Jeffrey and Weibel, Peter, eds., Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary after Film, Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, 2003.
•  Wardrip, Noah and Montfort, Nick, eds., The New Media Reader, Cambridge MA.: MIT Press, 2003.
• Packer, Randall and Jordan, Ken, eds., Multimedia from Wagner to Virtual Reality, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2001