Instructor: Andreas Treske, Assistant Professor
Email: treske@bilkent.edu.tr
Phone: 290-2731
Office hours: Wednesday 9.30 – 11.30, FF212A
Through digital technology our moving image culture is being redefined. The
computer enables the mixture of images captured through many different means
(cinema, stills, and drawings), and enables new levels of representation.
Video gave the birth to simultaneity; the computer extends simultaneity to
multiplicity. “Cinema becomes therefore a particular branch of painting
- painting in time. No longer a kino-eye, but a kino-brush.”
Will this shift through technology change the way we organize time and space
to create forms of narrative, or are we developing new kinds of vertical narratives?
This course will engage students to make meaningful generalizations for interpreting
or evaluating local experiences and practices in digital media, art and communication.
Additional note:
Only in recent years a theory on new media and its cultural influence begins
to appear. A theoretical discourse on the ongoing changes in our moving image
culture is still at the beginning. The seminar aims to build up a discourse
on the shift and changes created through digital technologies, while looking
at representation and reproduction techniques developed in the last century,
and in particular the development of cinema as the key cultural form of the
twentieth century.
Topics will be
- the parallels between cinema history and the history of new media,
- the nature and identity of digital cinema,
- the language of cinema and the language of multimedia,
- the development of montage, its use and the mobile camera in cinema and
in new media,
- the historical ties between new media and the avant-garde film,
- the technically reproduced image and its forms,
- the morph, the composite, the layer,
- also the loop and the mix,
- vertical and horizontal, linear and non-linear structures
- new screen narratives and interactivity.
The course emphasis will be on historical and theoretical arguments, but we
will also review and analyze key media objects from classic films to new screen
media objects.
In general the class will be based on discussions, lectures, presentations,
screenings of films, CD-ROMs, Web sites and other new media objects (also
including software applications).
1. A research paper not less than 3,000 words.
2. The paper can be linked with a new media object (Hypertext or Hypermedia),
which will be presented at the end of the course.
3. Each student will participate in a new media project, which will be realized
in the workshop part of the course.
4. Students are expected to spend regular time online to get familiar with
ongoing discussions, debates and artistic practice on the net.
5. Students are also expected to participate active in class discussions and
activities.
The following list is not ordered and not complete. It will extend during
the course.
- Main text:
Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media, MIT Press 2001
Randall packer, From Wagner to Multimedia
- Additional readings:
Brenda Laurel, Computers as Theatre
Janet Murray, Hamlet on the Holodeck
Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin, Remediation, Understanding New Media
… More to come
Here are only some quick surf suggestions. The list will expand soon and include
then more online texts, which will be used in class
www.manovich.net
rhizome.org
www.zkm.de
www.sagasnet.de
…. More to come
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Last updated 16. September 2003
© Andreas Treske 2002/03