Mobility, Media, and Art (O) (Cross-Listed: MAAC 3211)

3 ch (W) · Undergraduate

This course considers how artists, filmmakers, and writers use mobile media to create various forms of art, including cellphilms, soundwalks, and micro-blog. In general, mobile media art takes art out of the art gallery, cinema, and city and puts it into our pockets, public spaces, and rural environments. Drawing on the mobilities paradigm, we examine how mobile media artists working in screen, digital and game spaces challenge usual forms of participation, interactivity, and accessibility. We will also analyze different mobile media art projects within and outside of the classroom, which may include cellphilms, mobile phone orchestras, soundwalks, and/or soundscapes. Students have the option of creating a cellphilm or soundwalk for their final project.