CMNS3490
10 units
3000 level
Course handbook
Description
Experimental media provides an opportunity to explore new tools and techniques to enhance your existing creative practice and explore new possibilities of creative expression. This is a hands on course that takes the form of a studio lab. It promotes collaboration with others across disciplines and also with a variety of new or repurposed technologies. In the last 50 years, interactions between technology and humans have profoundly changed culture and society, producing new ways of story telling. This has also inspired completely new mediums and environments for creative expression such as immersive caves, extended reality, drone light shows and interactive installations. This course will establish a theoretical framework for understanding key critical debates and concepts in experimental media making, examining case studies of seminal innovations, before proceeding to teach best practice techniques and processes to explore your own ideas. The sky is not the limit.
Availability2024 Course Timetables
Newcastle City Precinct
- Semester 1 - 2024
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Analyse and critique contemporary examples of experimental media practice;
2. Demonstrate experimental media making through developing a creative outcome;
3. Self-reflection and evaluation of experimental process from idea to prototype
Content
Topics will include:
- New and repurposed (hacked) technology for creative expression and storytelling;
- Examination of contemporary experimental media practice;
- Virtual production, Data visualisation and real-time content generation;
- Prototyping tools and techniques;
- Social and cultural significance of experimental media practice;
- Aspects of theory concerning innovation, experimental and media labs.
Requisite
If you have successfully completed CMNS2080 you cannot enrol in this course.
Assessment items
Presentation: Critical Analysis of Experimental Media
Tutorial / Laboratory Exercises: Planning and Prototyping
Tutorial / Laboratory Exercises: Integration
Project: Final Project
Contact hours
Semester 1 - 2024 - Newcastle City Precinct
Lectorial-1
- Face to Face On Campus 1 hour(s) per week(s) for 6 week(s) starting in week 1
Tutorial-1
- Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1
Course outline
- CMNS3490 - Semester 1, 2024 (Ncle) (PDF, 219.9 KB)
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