Interactive and Digital Media Art

3 credits · Undergraduate

(3 hrs Seminar/Discussion) This seminar and creation-based course engages with critical theories and practices in interactive and digital media. Artistic practices have continued to flourish and with new technologies evolving at a rapid pace through coding, data, research, design and storytelling through interactive and digital media. This course explores media labs, interactive studios, green screen, gaming and artistic creation. Exposure to creation in sound/sonic, projection, Extended Reality (XR), Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality A/R, animation, games, video, graphics, photos, data visualization and more. Drawing on the unique area of digital creation reflecting on the importance of creative interventions within Canada and globally. Restrictions: Honours Form Required. HIST-4815 (3 or 6) Cultures of the Past: Art History and Memory (3 hrs Seminar/Discussion) This course brings students into first hand contact with selected art objects from the past centuries. Students are introduced to the concepts of periodization and conservation of old art objects, and learn how to document, analyse and write about the art objects which are kept in local institutions. The class examines works in their social, historical and artistic contexts, using primary and secondary sources and technical resources available locally. Students learn the practical aspects of art historical work. This course may be repeated for credit when the topic varies. Restrictions: Honours Form Required. HIST-4830 (3 or 6) The Idea of the Museum (3 hrs Seminar/Discussion) Museums and galleries do more than collect and exhibit objects; they participate in the packaging and presentation of the materials and ideas of culture, engaging with a diverse public and multiple stakeholders. Students examine the collecting, exhibiting and presentation practices of European and North American museums and galleries over the last two centuries with the goal of understanding their evolving role. The class explores how museums developed in response to the ideas of collecting and connoisseurship, the disciplines of art history and museology, and how these institutions reflect or relate to different ideologies, such as nationalism and colonialism. Note: This used to be titled The History of Museum and Collecting. Restrictions: Honours Form Required.