Laboratory of Net Art

Code: VIS15863O

1 ECTS

Duration: 3 weeks/26 hours

Scientific Area: Arte Multimédia

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Sustainable Development Goals

4. Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Learning Goals

1. Understanding net art in the aesthetic and historical spheres of the visual arts.
2. Know how to conceptualise, create and integrate a basic net art project into a website.
3. Know how to use basic creative programming language.

1. Concise approach to net art: pioneers and relationship with conceptual art; technological art festivals; infowars; email-art; tactical media; generative art.
2. Realisation of an interactive net art project using images and creative programming in basic software.
3. Integration of the net art project into a website.

Teaching Methods

The programme is linked to a series of pre-scheduled practical laboratory exercises.
The practical exhibitions, using audiovisual materials and images from various artists throughout the history of art, provide a transversal and interdisciplinary view of multimedia. Practical laboratory experimentation in the field of net art leads to skills in communicating visually using a clear and effective basic multimedia language.

Assessment

Continuous assessment of attendance and participation in all the sessions, which will take into account: attendance, dedication, commitment, imaginative and creative capacity, work done in response to the exercises proposed, progress during the sessions, and mastery of the techniques and knowledge taught. The final assessment will be quantitative.