🔵 🔴 🟡 Course description

The aim of the course is to present the historical, methodological and technological aspects of the field of video art through cases of artists (1960-present), exploring the great role of the field in the international contemporary scene as well as its evolution through the digital arts. It also aims to understand the impact of the camera as an expressive medium, moving image, sound, screen, and other multimedia/digital approaches to related art fields such as performance art, installations, conceptual art, and digital arts. The course attempts to shed light on the creative and artistic aspects of multimedia (video, sound, image, text, projection, screen, interaction), their experimental/poetic connections through the perception of visual characteristics, time, non-linear narration, text and physical gesture. This course aims to develop aesthetics and create artistic thinking with a multimedia/digital character, focusing on the conception and creation of artistic works in the practical part of the course.

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to

• Analyze and understand the basic characteristics of the field of video art, the basic characteristics of multimedia (video, sound, text, image) and their relationship with space, time, body and technology

• Apply audiovisual media in the composition and creation of an audiovisual artistic work of video art

• Combine expanded methodologies with poetic and technological starting points in the creation of an audiovisual artistic work of video art

• Organize the stages of conception and production of an audiovisual artistic work of video art

🔵 🔴 🟡 Theory (2 hours)

1. Introduction: art practice and multimedia
2. Multimedia processes: capturing, projecting, editing, composing
3. Video Art: The Historical, Social and Technological Context in the 20th Century
4. Video Art: Time, audiovisual composition and non-linear storytelling
5. Video Art: Body, Gesture and Performance Art
6. Video Art: Performative and multimedia archival approaches
7. Video Art: Video poetry, allegory and text
8. Video Art: Expanded Forms – Video Sculptures and Space
9. Video Art: Digital photogrammetry and animation
10. Case II Artistic Studies
11. Case III Artistic Studies
12. Invited artist from the field of Video Art/Multimedia
13. Review of course and art projects (assignments)

🔵 🔴 🟡 Workshop (1 hour)

1. Getting to know video and audio editing software I
2. Getting to know video and audio editing software II
3. Video Editing I
4. Video Editing II
5. Video Editing III
6. Video Editing IV (Feedback for Student Projects I)
7. Video Editing V
8. Video Editing VI
9. Video Editing VII
10. Video Editing VIII
11. Feedback on Student Projects II
12. Guest artist from Video Art/Multimedia
13. Review of course and art projects (assignments)

Review language: Greek

🔵 🔴 🟡 Evaluation method:

• 50% artwork
• 40% audiovisual exercises
• 10% written analysis of the project

 Note: The most complete student works are selected for participation in curated screenings (curated by the instructor) of international video art / digital art festivals (Video Art Miden, ADAF, IFPA, etc.), thus strengthening the artistic portfolio of the students. Previous entries include Video Art Miden (2021), Athens Digital Arts Festival (2020), International Forum of Performance Art (2024)

• 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.)
• Use of ICT in teaching
• Use of ICT when communicating with students.
• Learning process through an electronic platform.
• Communication with students via email and through an electronic chat space in the e-class.

https://eclass.uop.gr/courses/373/ 

🔵 🔴 🟡 Course Textbooks [Eudoxus]

• Skopeteas, I. (2016). Camera, Light and Image in Digital Audiovisual Recording. Athens: Ion Publications
• Mitrou, I. (2023). Phenomenology and Aesthetics of Media and Physicality in the Digital Age. Barbounakis Publications 
• Santorinaios, M. et al. (2015). From Composite Arts to Hypermedia: A Handbook for the Digital Art Artist. Kallipos 
• Boubaris, N. (2024). Culture and multimedia. Kallipos 
• Kolokythas, K. (2015). Video [Chapter]. In Kolokythas, K. 2015. Digital Media in the Audiovisual Arts. Kallipos
• Karaba, E., & Papastamou, V. (2023). Transitions: From Modern to Contemporary Art – Critical Considerations.  Kallipos 

Extra Bibliography

• Paul, C. (2008) Digital Art. London: Thames and Hudson
• London, B. (2020) Video Art: The first fifty years, Phaidon.
• Manovich, L. (2001). The Language of New Media. MA: The MIT Press.
• Viola, B. (2004). The Art of Bill Viola. Thames and Hudson.
• Kaye, N. (2007). Multi-media: Video, Installation, Performance. London: Routledge
• Eamon, C. (2009). Film and Video Art. London: TATE Publishing.
• Spielmann, Y. (2005). Video: The Reflexive Medium. MA: The MIT Press.
• Andrews, C.M. (2014). A History of Video Art. London: Bloomsbury
• Martin, S. and Grosenick, U, (2006). Video Art. London: Taschen.
• Bishop, C. (2005). Installation Art: A Critical History. New York: Routledge
• Lippard, L. (1997). Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972. University of California Press.
• Negreponte, N. (1995). Digital World. Kastaniotis Publications
• McLuhan, M. (1964). Understanding Media: the extensions of man, NY: McGraw-Hill
• Deligiannis, G. (2007). Interactive Multimedia and Digital Technology in the Arts. Athens, Fagotto Publications
• Lazarinis, F. (2015). Multimedia. Athens: Kallipos eBook
• Daflos, K. (2015). Tactics of technopolitical media. Kallipos eBook [electronic]