Experimental Media

3.0 credits · Undergraduate

This seminar examines “experimental media”, an umbrella term for experimental literature, poetry, film, video, photography, music, radio, theater, sound art, computer games, and other new media. With a focus on the twentieth- and twenty-first-century German-speaking world, we will discuss aesthetic experiments with form, structure, and materiality. With a view toward interdisciplinarity, our guiding questions will address the distinctions between art and non-art, amateurs and experts, and experimental and commercial media, as well as the possibilities of collaboration and the limits of the experimental method. While coursework will primarily involve reading, writing, and thinking about aesthetic texts and humanistic scholarship, there will be some hands-on work with media objects and experimental media archeology. Taught in English.