Universität Wien
Lehrveranstaltungsprüfung

160062 VO Screen Culture (2020W)

Montag 03.05.2021 09:45 - 11:15 Digital

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Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

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Prüfungsstoff

Topics will include:
1. Interactions between popular music and multimedia in live performance,
2. Sound and music on websites,
3. Electronic music, electroacoustic/acousmatic music, sound art,
4. Evolution of old media like serial television, immersive video games, and postclassical cinema,
5. Digital animation,
6. Music videos,
7. Technologies of production and reproduction,
8. Haptic, interactive, and immersive modalities,
9. The role of music and digital technologies in shaping the lives of young people, and
10. How consumers appropriate the technology for their own purposes.

Each lecture will focus on a theoretical approach to the topic taken from the following:
1. Audiovisual interrelations (relationship between sound and vision, acousmatics, diegesis),
2. Beyond audiovisuality (involvement of other senses – touch, taste, smell, movement),
3. Narrativity, semiotics and stylistic conventions,
4. Sound design,
5. Intertextuality,
6. Intermediality,
7. Technology (technological convergence vs unruliness),
8. Space and place,
9. Temporality and Synchronization,
10. Aestheticism or affect as resistance,
11. Embodiment,
12. War,
13. Economic factors,
14. Interactivity and immersion,
15. The voice,
16. Soundtrack elements,
17. Audiovisual ecology,
18. Cultural identity, affiliation, and spectatorship,
19. Daily life,
20. Performance.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

By the end of the course, students will:
• understand the multiple ways in which sound and music are used across a range of digital media,
• understand the relationship between new media and technological, psychological, social, political and economic realities,
• have at their disposal a number of theoretical tools that allow for more precise description and discussion of digital sound and its relationship to its cultural context,
• appreciate the contours of the academic and wider debates surrounding new media, particularlyas they relate to music and sound, and be able to reflect critically on these issues.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

There are no special requirements to take this course.

The course will be assessed via a 1.5 hour exam consisting of short questions to test understanding of the lectures (50%) and a medium sized essay on a topic of the student's own choosing that tests the critical skills taught in the course (50%).

UPDATE: Due to the pandemic measures, the course will be assessed by essay alone, which should be submitted online via Moodle a few days after the examination date.

Letzte Änderung: Fr 12.05.2023 00:17