Installation Art and Digital Media

Course Code
ΧΕΙΜΕΕ1 4-ΠΨΤ
ECTS Credits
6
Semester
4th / 6th / 8th Semester
Σειρά εμφάνισης
1
Course Category
Professor

BILL PSARRAS

Course Description
LEARNING OUTCOMES

🔵 🔴 🟡 Course description

Note [The course Video Art and Multimedia or the Design of Video Projections in Performance Space prerequisites]

 

The course focuses on the field of installation art and studies in depth the historical, methodological and multimedia development of this artistic field in the 20th century. It introduces students to the basic theories of space/place, the spatialization of experience as well as the hybrid/performative character of the field of installations by analysing theoretically and practically the various categories of installations (video installations, sound, mixed media, conceptual, interactive, relation to land art) focusing on the relationship between digital/audiovisual media, projections and space. The course analyzes various theoretical approaches as well as artistic (multimedia) methodologies of artists from various fields of contemporary art, studying and emphasizing issues of immersion, site-specificity, interaction and public space. The course aims to develop aesthetics, create artistic thought and understand the work as an expanded multimedia experience, focusing on the conception and creation of artistic installations in the practical part of the course – with the possibility of their implementation/exhibition in a cultural space or art festival. The course is also available to ERASMUS students.

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to

  • Analyze and understand the conceptual and aesthetic characteristics of art installations and the importance of space as an element of the work.

  • Apply audiovisual/digital media, video, projection, sound, objects and constructions by creating an installation project

  • Recognize the concepts of immersion, place-specificity, interaction and public space as basic characteristics of expanded installations and to apply them to the conception and implementation of artistic works

  • Evaluate the convergences of installations and performance art through conceptual and technological methodologies

COURSE CONTENT

🔵 🔴 🟡 Theory (2 hours)

  1. Introduction to Facilities: Experience or Subject?
  2. Forerunners: Environments, Land Art and Pre-Cinematic Devices/Projection
  3. Video installations I: Immersion, projections, non-linear storytelling
  4. Video Installations II: Immersion, Placespecificity, Non-Linear Storytelling
  5. Sound Installations I: Immersion, Placespecificity and Sound
  6. Conceptual Installations / Mixed Technique I: Materials, Topicity
  7. Light Installations: Immersion and Topicity
  8. Interactive Installations I: Immersion and Interaction
  9. Interactive Installations II: Immersion and Interaction
  10. Installations in Public Space I: Ephemeral Practices and Text
  11. Installations in Public Space II: Interactive participation. Situations
  12. Guest Artist Talk I
  13. Guest Artist Talk II – Course Review

🔵 🔴 🟡 Workshop (1 hour)

  1. Concept concept: Composing with space and technology (art diary)
  2. Concept concept: Composing with space and technology (art diary)
  3. Video, Projection, Audio: Software in artistic practice
  4. Video, Projection, Audio: Software in artistic practice
  5. Video, Projection, Audio: Software in artistic practice
  6. Video, Projection, Audio: Software in artistic practice
  7. Video, Projection, Audio: Software in artistic practice
  8. Video, Projection, Audio: Software in artistic practice
  9. Video, Projection, Audio: Software in artistic practice
  10. Video, Projection, Audio: Software in artistic practice
  11. Video, Projection, Audio: Software in artistic practice
  12. Review of students' artistic projects I
  13. Review of Students' Art Projects II
EVALUATION

Review language: Greek

🔵 🔴 🟡 Evaluation method:

  1. Written evaluation (30%)

  2. Installation Artwork (70%)

LEARNING - TEACHING METHODS
  • Face-to-face
  • Use of PowerPoint and audio-visual examples (13 lectures)
  • Support of the learning process through eClass with weekly provision of audiovisual material, links, photos, extra bibliography and related information (exhibitions, cultural institutions, etc.)
  • Software Tutorial
  • Participation in festivals / exhibitions / projects of the department
eCLASS COURSE

https://eclass.uop.gr/courses/2862/

RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY

🔵 🔴 🟡 Course Textbooks [Eudoxus]

  • Zafeiropoulos, Th. (eds.) (2024). HERE: Place, Landscape, Space, Time: Artistic Practices and Approaches.
  • Moira, M. and Makris, D (2024). Space and Narrative - Narrative and Space. Kallipos eBook

 

Extra Bibliography

  • Bishop, C. (2005). Installation Art: A Critical History. New York: Routledge.
  • Bruno, G. (2014). Surface. Matters of aesthetics, materiality and media. The University of Chicago Press.
  • G. Menotti & V. Crisp (eds.) (2020), Practices of Projection. Histories and Technologies. London: Oxford University Press
  • Coulter-Smith, G. (2006). Deconstructing Installation Art. Southampton: CASIAD.
  • De Oliveira, N. (2004). Installation Art in the New Millennium. Thames and Hudson.
  • De Oliveira, N. Oxley, N., Petry, M. (1996). Installation Art. Thames and Hudson.
  • Rosenthal, M. (2005). Installation Art. Prestel Publishing.
  • Reiss, J. (1999). From Margin to Center: The Spaces of Installation Art. MIT Press.
  • Suderburg, E. (eds.) (2000). Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art. MI: University of Minnesota Press.
  • Paul, C. (2003). Digital Art. London: Thames and Hudson.
  • Manovich, L. (2001). The Language of New Media. The MIT Press.
  • Manovich, L. (2006). The Poetics of Augmented Space. First Monday, Vol. 4, Online.
  • Rebellisch, J. (2012). Aesthetics of Installation Art. Berlin: Sternberg Press.
  • London, B. (2020) Video Art: The first fifty years, Phaidon.
  • Lippard, L. (1997). Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object. U.C.P. 
  • Stiles, K. & Howard Selz, P. (1996). Theories, Documents of Contemporary Art. U.C.P.
  • Kaprow, A. (1966). Assemblages, Environments and Happenings. Published.
  • Nelson, R. (ed.) (2013). Practice as Research in the Arts. Palgrave MacMillan.
  • Townsend, C. (2004). The Art of Bill Viola. London: Thames and Hudson.
  • Zumthor, P. (2006). Atmospheres. Basel: Birkhauser.
  • Venetsianou, O. (2023). Strategies for the synthesis of physical & digital space. Potamos.
  • Bachelard, G. (1958 [2014]). The Poetics of Space. Athens: Hatzinikoli Publications.
  • Merleau-Ponty, M. (1945 [2016]). Phenomenology of Perception. Athens: Island.
  • Stavridis, S. (2009). From City Screen to City Stage. Ed. Hell. Letters
  • Avgitidou, A. (eds.) (2021). Public Art, Public Sphere. U. Studio Press.
  • Kwon, M. (2002). One Place After Another. The MIT Press.
  • Tuan, Y. F. (1977). Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. UOMP
  • J. Malpas (ed.) (2017). The Intelligence of Place: Topographies and Poetics. Bloom
  • Rendell, J. (2006). Art and Architecture: A Place Between. London: I.B. Tauris.
  • Augé, M. (1995). Non-Places: An Anthropology of Supermodernity. London: Verso.
  • Daflos, K. (2015). Tactics of technopolitical media. Kallipos eBook [electronic]
  • Boubaris, N. (2024). Culture and Multimedia. Kallipos eBook [electronic]
  • Kolokythas, K. (2015). Video [chapter]. In Kolokythas, K. 2015. Digital Media in the Audiovisual Arts. Kallipos [electronic]
  • Bourriaud, N. (2015). Relational Aesthetics (D. Ginosatis ed.). ASFA.