2023
Technologies of the New Media IV
Name: Technologies of the New Media IV
Code: VIS12799L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Arte Multimédia
Teaching languages: Portuguese, English
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
At the end of this course students should have acquired skills regarding the critical analysis of the video game
object in order to understand its components, aesthetic and technical; they should also have acquired an
intermediary set of skills regarding the use of videogame technologies in order to be able to use them as an
expressive form in a experimental context.
object in order to understand its components, aesthetic and technical; they should also have acquired an
intermediary set of skills regarding the use of videogame technologies in order to be able to use them as an
expressive form in a experimental context.
Contents
- Contextualization:
The experience as aesthetic value.
The problematic of the game: Freud, Wittgenstein, Huizinga, Suits, Caillois, Sutton-Smith.
Characterisation of the videogame: structures of analysis. The lenses of Schell and Sales and Zimmerman
Aesthetic experience through interaction with cybernetic systems, when they are represented as a video
game. Audiovisual simulation of spaces.
Second-order relationships of meaning: behavioral and narrative emergency.
Mathematical progression and randomness.
Specialised Tools: game engines.
Communities: open cultural systems; modding, machinima and collective intelligence.
- Laboratory practice:
Design of interactive systems.
Creation of audiovisual representations.
Creation of narratives.
Systems integration and representation in specialised tools
Integration tests and final adjustments
Integration in distribution platforms.
The experience as aesthetic value.
The problematic of the game: Freud, Wittgenstein, Huizinga, Suits, Caillois, Sutton-Smith.
Characterisation of the videogame: structures of analysis. The lenses of Schell and Sales and Zimmerman
Aesthetic experience through interaction with cybernetic systems, when they are represented as a video
game. Audiovisual simulation of spaces.
Second-order relationships of meaning: behavioral and narrative emergency.
Mathematical progression and randomness.
Specialised Tools: game engines.
Communities: open cultural systems; modding, machinima and collective intelligence.
- Laboratory practice:
Design of interactive systems.
Creation of audiovisual representations.
Creation of narratives.
Systems integration and representation in specialised tools
Integration tests and final adjustments
Integration in distribution platforms.
Teaching Methods
The program consists of exercises, theoretical presentations of the contents. The evaluation is continuous taking into account: attendance; commitment; creativity; evolution, and; knowledge domain. There will be a continuous evaluation and a final assessment evaluated by a jury composed of the subject teacher and teachers of the course.
In the NORMAL SEASON assessment students can opt for the Continuous Evaluation or Final Evaluation schemes. The RECOURSE, SPECIAL and EXTRAORDINARY seasons are governed by the Final Evaluation scheme.
1. CONTINUOUS EVALUATION:
a) Participation in classes: 20%;
b) Work done in the classes with the teacher follow-up and submitted at least to a periodic evaluation: 40 %;
c) Presentation and defense of the work done during classes: 40%.
Classification: sum of a), b) and c).
2. FINAL EVALUATION:
a) Work done in the classes with the teacher follow-up: 40%;
b) Exam about the subject contents: 60%.
Classification: sum of a) and b).
In the NORMAL SEASON assessment students can opt for the Continuous Evaluation or Final Evaluation schemes. The RECOURSE, SPECIAL and EXTRAORDINARY seasons are governed by the Final Evaluation scheme.
1. CONTINUOUS EVALUATION:
a) Participation in classes: 20%;
b) Work done in the classes with the teacher follow-up and submitted at least to a periodic evaluation: 40 %;
c) Presentation and defense of the work done during classes: 40%.
Classification: sum of a), b) and c).
2. FINAL EVALUATION:
a) Work done in the classes with the teacher follow-up: 40%;
b) Exam about the subject contents: 60%.
Classification: sum of a) and b).
Teaching Staff
