Digital Arts
- FREE
- English
- Art studies
- Certificate included
What is the course about?
What is the course about? What are Digital Arts? Questions to the digital.
Digital Arts focus on art that engages with, uses and is impacted by the digital. This course doesn’t focus on technology but presents it as a tool to facilitate ideas, placing emphasis upon its creative and artistic use. The program encourages students to explore the possibilities and potential of technologies within an art context. It offers the opportunity to develop a project from proposal to final exhibition. You will be asked to research content, materials and methods. Written work and practical work in the course combine as an investigation of the relationship to the subject and contemporary practice.
Let's understand Digital Arts together by exploring the topics above as well as experiencing interviews and art works from well-known artists.
Main theme of the art seminar: '90 minutes of life'
What is life? (Philosophically, artistically and conceptually)
Artistic work will be analysed from the perspective of motivation and the outcome of the work.
What message does the work communicate?
What kind of shapes or forms can you find?
What is the medium of the work?
What will you learn?
Throughout the course, you will learn the following:
• The work and concepts of contemporary photographic and video artists.
• To understand and articulate how meaning of images is visually communicated.
• The “language” of creative expression and how this can improve your own artistic work.
• The ability to identify and explain the basic visual and conceptual elements that are common to all works of art.
• The key contemporary photographic narratives.
YOU will learn to have direct access to the voice of the artist. The work of contemporary artists provides not only new art and ideas to introduce but also new approaches for making art.
Who should take this course?
If photography, video making, sound & theory based on art is your passion, then you fit perfectly to the course.
Using computers, visual artists can manipulate all forms of artefacts, whether video, photographic images, sound clips or text, to create exciting new experiences for audiences.
What do I need to know?
You do not need to be prepared. You need to be excited! Let the course experience lead you to more creative ideas.
At the end of the course, what will I make?
Create a cohesive body of exhibition-quality work that collectively explores the concept of the course “W_h_a_t_ i_s _l_i_f_e” and be able to explain the significance of subject, form, presentation and meaning your work.
Course structure
Chapter 1: (2 November - 8 November)
This chapter is an introduction to video art, performance art and photography. The starting point is: what is life? The motivation of creativity.
We are investigating each medium from its beginning through history to the present day, dissecting it to its components. What is the main motivation for artists? What message does the work communicate? What kind of shapes or forms can you find? What is the medium of the work?
Homework:
Art example in Second Life (virtual world), Video art presentation
Chapter 2: (9 November - 15 November)
What is life? Life and beauty: The work and concepts of contemporary photographic and video artists.
Starting from a philosophical viewpoint we examine the approaches on life, beauty and art illustrating our argument with various examples.
Homework:
Artistic work will be analysed from the perspective of motivation and the outcome of the work. What message does the work communicate? What kind of shapes or forms can you find? What is the medium of the work?
Chapter 3: (16 November - 22 November)
What is life? Life and death: To understand and articulate how meaning of images is visually communicated.
In this chapter we look into life, death and trauma. These moments in everybody’s life give cause to artists to delve into the core of human existence and wonder about the human condition.
Homework:
Artistic work will be analysed from the perspective of motivation and the outcome of the work.
What message does the work communicate? What kind of shapes or forms can you find? What is the medium of the work?
Chapter 4: (23 November - 29 November)
What is life? Life and documentation: The “language” of creative expression and how this can improve your own artistic work.
The boundaries of artistic expression are not confined in the studio or art gallery. Artists document life performed in its natural state and how people interact with their environment.
Homework:
Video presentation - Artistic work will be analysed from the perspective of motivation and the outcome of the work. What message does the work communicate? What kind of shapes or forms can you find? What is the medium of the work?
Chapter 5: (30 November - 6 December)
What is life? Life and Eros: The ability to identify and explain the basic visual and conceptual elements that are common to all works of art.
Many say that love is the motivating force of life. In worldwide mythology love and lust are responsible for cosmogonic events such as the birth of heroes and the beginning of wars among other circumstances. Art inspired by mythology, cinema or real (or virtual) life is a staple theme motivating artists since antiquity.
Homework:
Artistic work will be analysed from the perspective of motivation and the outcome of the work. What message does the work communicate? What kind of shapes or forms can you find? What is the medium of the work?
Chapter 6: (7 December - 13 December)
What is life? Life and memory: The key contemporary photographic and video-film narratives.
Memories are a key component of who we are. Its subjective and fragmentary nature forms our personality. It is a matter of philosophical debate since ancient times. Through art we record and preserve and try to dominate its fleeting state.
Homework:
(Plus exercises) Artistic work will be analyzed from the perspective of motivation and the outcome of the work.
What message does the work communicate? What kind of shapes or forms can you find? What is the medium of the work?
Chapter 7: (14 December - 20 December)
What is life? Celebrating life: An understanding of the history of video art and the impact of video on contemporary culture.
In this chapter, we recap on what we have discussed in the previous chapters. Life isn’t just one thing. It is beauty and death, love and memories. Here we celebrate the multifaceted thing that is life.
XMAS BREAK
Final chapter 8: Final show
Course instructors
Angelina Voskopoulou
Angelina Voskopoulou:
Born in Athens, Greece on 14th May 1981.
I am a graduate (BA with Distinction) in Fine Arts and Technology and I also have aMasters degree in Digital Arts(university of the Arts London). I am teachingat Athens cultural center Art and New Media . I am also the course leader in Digital Arts at iversity (platform for open massive online courses) More over, I am working my own videos, as well as sculptures made from polyester. I am also the Co founderand video artist/director of ‘state of flux’ dance group.
On 2010, I was one of the Representative artists in European meeting of young artists, of the European network for town twinning, congress hall National Center of scientific
research ‘Democritus’, Athens cultural center.
I have shown my work in many art festivals and exhibition
spaces,worldwide(Greece,Italy,Canada,Sweden,London,USA,Spain,Peru,Argentina,Bulgaria,Morocco)
Recently I was selected for the Biennial Edition of VIDEOFOCUS,Stigmart10 ,Videobiennale, special issue featuring videoartists and independent filmmakers. More over I am participating in The Mdina Cathedral Contemporary Art
Biennale, 2015-2016.
I was selected for Cannes festival (short film corner, 2015), further more, I am part of New Digital Art Biennale, in São Paulo and Part of the Museum ofDigital Fine Arts (MoDFA).
Some of my art work over the past years has been focused on
‘minimal movement’. My view regarding the power of that which is minimal has been reinforced by research, the
application of ideas and the results from previous research. The movement of a unit is considered to be that which drives all things. I don’t wish to lead anyone to wonder about
the physical world and its laws or create religious questions regarding God and creation.
The project is centered on Man and his inner world.That which I call minimal movement, is the internal movement, internal action or intensity and how everything doesn’t necessarily have to entail external action. Even total lack of movement indicates internal
intensities, conflicts, disputes and concerns.
faye mullen
Faye Mullen’s work is informed by a sculptural sensibility combining elements of performance, site, sound, light and image - both moving and still. Informed by time and place, the practice she pursues is self-reflective and considers itself as precisely such - a practice. Characterized by a sustained interest in content, form, materiality and weight, her studio practice acknowledges weight as it bears what is physical as much as immaterial.
Faye studied at l’École National Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto as well as the University of Toronto where she received her masters. Faye has participated in several artist residencies including a two-year post-graduate residency at le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains. Her work has been exhibited internationally in solo and curated group shows in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Poland, South Korea, Spain, the UK and the US. Currently, Faye currently situates her practice between Toronto (Canada) and Roubaix (France).
Irini Miari
Born in Athens,Greece in 1978
MA in Multimedia Department ,Hellenic Open University
BA in Photography ,University of graphic arts and photography, Athens,Greece
I am an Independent photographer in Athens. I have experience in a variety of different areas, including:
Archaeological photography, Portraits and head shots
, Still life
, Abstract photography
and more.
I have been focusing on photography and in particular investigating how the works are shown. If I am not shooting I am researching new ideas…. ‘Photography: the process of trapping time with light’
During the last five years I have been teaching Digital photography at Athens cultural center as well as I have been a co-worker at the national archeological museum of Athens,Greece
Jessica Sartor-d'Avigdor
Jessica Sartor-d’Avigdor (* 13th of February 1979) is a German video performance and digital artist and art teacher. Her artistic work broadens to include multimedia installations and video performances as well as various forms of cross-media objects.
Education
Following a degree program in Art and English Language at Justus-Liebig University in Giessen (Germany), in 2008 Jessica obtained a Master of Arts degree in Digital Arts from University of the Arts in London.
Further education in Art Therapy, Institut für Kunst und Therapie Potsdam.
Professional Background
Before Jessica embarked on her current career, she has been working as a Web author for an eLearning research project of the University of Giessen and the Goethe-Institute as well as a freelance media designer and further education trainer for the use of new media in various educational settings. Has been working as an Art and English teacher at Günter-Stöhr-Gymnasium (Munich). Currently: Artist & Art teacher at Private Realschule Gut Warnberg, Munich.
Work
Jessica's work focuses on the critical experience of self and identity in a world vastly determined by an overall wave of virtualization. In this context, she explores if and to what extent healing capacities and ritual elements in performative video art are able to transform the attributes associated with this process (such as increasing alienation, derealization and disembodiment).
In her video performances, shot in real-time without a film crew, she transforms these scenarios in a ritualistic way, alluding to neo-shamanistic healing practices. One of the major principles of her work is the exclusive staging of her own person in the role of various identities.
Her work has been shown in a number of European countries and the US.
Anastasia Manioudaki
Anastasia Manioudaki has studied Archaeology and Art History at the University of Athens where she received her BA. In 2013 she received her MA in Art History from the University of Sussex, UK. The subject of her thesis was ’’ Representations of Women in Late-Victorian Classical Subject Painting’’. She has worked in the 4th Athens Biennale (ΑΒ4- AGORA) as a production team intern and in the National Gallery of Greece as an intern.
Her current research focuses on the influence of Classical mythology in western painting. She lives in Athens, Greece and teaches art history in a Municipal Art School.
