Offered By	ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences

CONCTACT : SCHOOL OF CULTURAL INQUIRY 

The continual and rapid changes in digital technologies and performance modes offer new media artists many new and different formats for their artistic practice.  With so many new technologies and so many ways in which to apply them, there is an outstanding need for students to learn about the theatrical, music, sound and cinematic contexts in which new media arts have evolved.

Through this major students will also develop both a critical and practical understanding of what it means to 'perform' in the context of new media arts and technology. This understanding will be based on a working definition of 'performance' as an active process of both making and receiving art (and life) but always as behaviour which is for or with an audience. Following on from the introduction to media and new media theory taught in the compulsory courses, Media Cultures I and Media Cultures 2, this major will explore performances which are not only presented in live spaces but also through cinematic, multimedia and otherwise digitally mediated processes and/or new performance contexts.

Those courses drawn from Drama will particularly address the need for students to understand ways in which both the theory and practice of new media arts are historically based on both traditional and current uses of performance media and methodology.

Those courses drawn from Music will focus on the developments in music which have a primarily aural focus, including interactive performance, the performance of culturally diverse music, contemporary performance practice, improvisation and music production.  Students will be offered a variety of courses from which they can construct their major.

Requirements

The major in New Media Performance requires the completion of 42 units from the select list* with a maximum of 12 units of first year courses offered at 1000 level and a minimum of 30 units of later year courses.

* Please note that only the following topics within the complementary studies 1 (ARTV2100) and complementary studies 2 (ARTV2022) courses have been approved for this major 

 - Animation 1 & 2

- Digital Compositing 1 & 2

- Sound Art 1 & 2

- Physical Computing for the Arts 1 & 2

 - Video 1 & 2

 -Web Cinema 1 & 2

 

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