GRMUS E630 — Future Stages

2 credits
Fall
Edward Bilous

This course explores how emerging technologies, trans-disciplinary design, and global interconnectivity impact the way in which the arts are created, performed, and experienced. Performances and recordings of recent multimedia and interdisciplinary works will provide insight into the ways digital technology, engineering and new media are shaping contemporary aesthetics and practices. Assigned readings will include texts drawn from art criticism, media studies, cognitive science, and meta-modernist philosophies; additionally, guest speakers will discuss topics related to interdisciplinary collaboration, augmented and virtual reality, and haptic performance technology. The course will place special emphasis on approaches to the pedagogy of art education, requiring students to design a lesson plan on the topic of emerging art forms.