13500
Seminar
New Media: From Video to AI
Eric de Bruyn
Kommentar
Since the 1990s the term “new media” has become associated with digital media, but throughout the 20th century it was used to refer to any image technology of recent vintage. Thus, during the 1920s, artists would refer to photography or film as “new media.” In this seminar, we will pick up this history at a later point, in the late 1960s, when the “electronic” medium of video became available to visual artists. We will trace how video was adopted by European and American artists and, in particular, how the medium was defined in relation to more conventional media, such as painting or sculpture, or in relation to television as a mass medium. Certain unique characteristics of video can be highlighted (e.g. liveness or feedback), however not all artists who used video were concerned with establishing a separate “discipline” of video art. Video was also instrumental to a form of “artivism” during the seventies, which mirrors comparable developments in contemporary art. Today, we tend to use the terms “film” and “video” interchangeably, but this is largely due to the introduction of digital video in the 1990s. In the seminar we shall also pursue a genealogy of digital art, which originates in the 1960s and trace it into the present, discussing the role of artistic practice within an “algorithmic culture” and the impact of artificial intelligence on the current status of the image. The seminar will be conducted in English and German and may involve an excursion within Berlin. Schließen
14 Termine
Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung
Mi, 16.04.2025 14:00 - 16:00
Mi, 23.04.2025 14:00 - 16:00
Mi, 30.04.2025 14:00 - 16:00
Mi, 07.05.2025 14:00 - 16:00
Mi, 14.05.2025 14:00 - 16:00
Mi, 21.05.2025 14:00 - 16:00
Mi, 28.05.2025 14:00 - 16:00
Mi, 04.06.2025 14:00 - 16:00
Mi, 11.06.2025 14:00 - 16:00
Mi, 18.06.2025 14:00 - 16:00
Mi, 25.06.2025 14:00 - 16:00
Mi, 02.07.2025 14:00 - 16:00
Mi, 09.07.2025 14:00 - 16:00
Mi, 16.07.2025 14:00 - 16:00