By the completion of the class, the student will be able to:

• give a culture of the contemporary digital tools of creation
• explore how diverse forms of artistic practices (Music, Cinema, Storytelling, Video Games) are affected by new media tools
• differentiate between different forms of new media art practices and their recent history
• have an understanding of some basics in the philosophy of new media studies that are required to have a good grasp of the contemporary evolution of diverse creative practices in relation with digital tools aimed at creative practices
• understand the industrial process and logic of creative digital tools
• understand the possibilities as well as the ideologies embedded in those tools
• assess the media specificity of the analog and digital tools for creation
• explore what creativity means in this context, what is the creative experience, what it is to be a digital-analog artist?
• assess how those tools reconfigure the notion of authorship and spectatorship.

This is not a course which teaches the technicalities of new media art production tools. This class aims more generally to give a theoretical understanding and an historical perspective of the use and the development of those tools in a variety of media art production contexts.