🔵 🔴 🟡 Course description

The aim of the course is to present in an introductory context the large field of visual arts and their digital/audiovisual evolution in the 20th and 21st centuries. The course approaches in an introductory way the range, characteristics and methodological starting points of visual arts, having as basic cases painting, sculpture and photography as traditional arts based on visual perception/vision and which, through technological, cultural and social extensions, created new hybrid forms of digital art with an obvious use of audiovisual and digital media during the 20-21st century.  Emphasis is placed on the importance of the elements of line, space, color, light, composition, but also broader multimedia tools such as the computer, the camera, the screen, the code, the sound, the sensors, in order to create connecting bridges with emerging digital art forms. The course aims to familiarize students with artistic creation, the artistic methodologies/within these fields, the polymorphic relationship between art and technology as well as the key milestones in the evolution of visual/digital art to date.

•  Analyze the characteristics of visual arts and digital art 
• Understand  the dynamic relationship between contemporary art and technology
• To recognize basic methodologies and techniques of the visual arts and to understand their evolution from the analogue to the digital context 
• To identify the evolution and characteristics of basic processes of capturing, recording, projecting, reproducing and processing the image between the fields (painting, photography, cinema, video, animation, digital art-new media)
• Apply  basic image synthesis and processing processes through a combination of analog and digital (PC) methods

🔵 🔴 🟡 Theory (2 hours)

1. Introduction Artistic Creation: From Visuals to Digital Arts
2. Optics: Point, line, plane, color, light, shadow, space
3. The creation of the painting image I: processes, characteristics, materials
4. The creation of the painting image II: processes, characteristics, materials
5. The creation of the sculptural form: space, characteristics, materials
6. The appearance and capture of the photographic image: characteristics
7. The projection and storage of the moving image: From pre-cinema projection devices to cinema
8. The reconstruction of the image: From analogue to digital collage
9. The algorithmic creation of the image: The computer art
10. Digital creation: artist cases and digital art
11. Digital creation: artist cases and digital art
12. Digital creation: artist cases and digital art
13. Guest Speaker – Course Review

🔵 🔴 🟡 Workshop (1 hour)

1. Getting to know digital image processing software I (Krita)
2. Acquaintance with digital image processing software II (Krita exercise topic)
3. Point/vector graphics and Krita program interface
4. Layers and composition
5. Acquaintance with the tools of the program I (cut, crop, distort)
6. Acquaintance with the tools of the program II (blend, mask, text)
7. Acquaintance with the tools of the program III (colour, lines, shapes)
8. Acquaintance with the tools of the program IV (pattern creation)
9. Acquaintance with the tools of the program V (collage)
10. Completing a composition I
11. Completing a composition II
12. Student Project Feedback I
13. Student Project Feedback II

Review language: Greek

🔵 🔴 🟡 Evaluation method:

• 70% written exam
• 30% creative digital composition exercise

• 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/2865/

🔵 🔴 🟡 Course Textbooks [Eudoxus]

• Vasilakos, A. (2008). Digital Art Forms. Tziolas Publications. [18549065]
• Lalioti, V. (2022). Digital Technologies and Arts. Ropi Publications. [112695883]
• Zafeiropoulos, Th. (eds.) (2024). HERE: Place, Landscape, Space, Time Tziolas Publications. [122085104]
• Santorineos, M. et al. (2015). A handbook for the digital art artist. Kallipos eBook (free).
• Kolokythas, K. (2015). Image Editing In Digital Media in Audiovisual Arts Kallipos eBook (free). 

Extra Bibliography

• Paul, C. (2003). Digital Art. London: Thames and Hudson.
• Manovich, L. (2001). The Language of New Media. The MIT Press.
• Stiles, K. & Howard Selz, P. (1996). Theories Documents of Contemporary Art. 
• Negreponte, N. (1995). Digital World. Kastaniotis Publications
• McLuhan, M. (1964). Understanding Media: the extensions of man, NY: McGH
• Kandinsky, W. (1926). Point, Line, Level. Athens: Dodoni Publications.
• Itten, J. (1961). The Art of Color. Texts by Visual Artists.
• Wands, B (2006). Art of the Digital Age. London: Thames and Hudson.
• Tribe, M. and Reena, J. (eds.) (2009). New Media Art. London: Taschen
• Bentkowska-Kafel, A.,  Cashen, T.,  Gardiner, H. (2005). Digital Art Histories. Intellect.
• Collins, S. (2014). Seascapes. Film and Video Umbrella.
• Lazarinis, F. (2015). Edit vector graphics with AIL/Inkscape tools. In Multimedia. Kallipos eBook (free).