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Objectives

The aim is to train students to introduce their own artistic practice (from the domain of digital art) into the context of environmental art. They examine the relationship between digital and ambient art.

Outcomes

Students understand the ambience as a collective and equal experience of space and shapes in space, where the movement of the observer is required by lighting and arrangement of elements, i.e. passing between, alongside, or around installation elements, so that interactive displays and related media serve to provoke thought about the nature of art. Students learn to plan and project behavioral situations related to knowledge and exploration of space. They are introduced to the history and theory of ambient art.

Course content

Lectures

The concept of ambient art. Anticipations of ambient art (Kurt Schwitters and El Lisicki). De Stijl and Bauhaus. Neo-dadaist and fluxus environments. Relationship between sculptural and ambient. Process art environments (ready-made and land art, light and kinetic environments, sound environments). Environments of minimal and post-minimal art. Environments of conceptual art. Environments of multimedia art. Environments of horizontal plastic. Digital art environments (virtual and cyber spaces). Space, light, sound and movement of the observer as determinants of the ambient artwork. Environments in architectural interior. Environments in urban space. Environments in nature. Material and shape. Surface as a material boundary. Relationship between function and form. Shape perception. Form and image. Installation (spatial arrangement of paintings, sculptures, objects and constructions). Perceptual performance in virtual space. Object and narrative. Interactive narratives and databases. Limits ​​of real and virtual space.

Research work

Through research work, students carry out exercises in the analysis and design of ambient installations.