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Sean Cubitt - Environmental impact of digital technology

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
373MSC Z 1 2/D English winter
Subject guarantor:
Miloš VOJTĚCHOVSKÝ
Name of lecturer(s):
Miloš VOJTĚCHOVSKÝ
Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Comprehension and personal reflection of discussed themes

Mode of study:

Lecture

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

none

Recommended optional programme components:

-

Course contents:

1. Sean Cubitt ? On the environmental impact of digital technology

The media we use everyday have been described as immaterial, cognitive, friction-free and weightless but they are not so. Manufacturing, using and recycling digital media involve immense quantities of materials and energy. This talk looks at the environmental consequences of ubiquitous media and the rapidly changing technologies. The network of stories about metals, plastics, oil, nuclear and toxic waste is a depressing tale to tell but points towards a new kind of aesthetic politics which might yet save both humans and environments

2. Sean Cubitt ? Chips, screens and codecs: Technical standards and the control of time

Digital visual media, like previous analogue electronic video, as currently deployed use a series of interlocked technologies which produce a universal standard for creating, disseminating and viewing images. This paper argues that these standards have very particular aesthetic effects, linked to the kind of social, political and economic presumptions of 21st century globalisation. It investigates the work of visual artists in these technologies who alter the controlling mechanisms embedded in them to give us new visions of time.

Recommended or required reading:

none

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Lecture

Assessment methods and criteria:

Attendance 100% both lectures, written essay, 3000 char.

Course web page:
Note:

Sean Cubitt is Professor of Film and Television at Goldsmiths, University of London. His most recent book is The Practice of Light (MIT 2014). Sean Cubitt is Professor of Film and Television at Goldsmiths, University of London; Professorial Fellow of the University of Melbourne and Honorary Professor of the University of Dundee. His publications include Timeshift: On Video Culture, Videography: Video Media as Art and Culture, Digital Aesthetics, Simulation and Social Theory, The Cinema Effect, EcoMedia and his most recent book, The Practice of Light (MIT 2014). He has recently co-edited Rewind: British Video Art of the 1970s and 80s, Relive: Media Art History, Ecocinema and Digital Light. He is the series editor for Leonardo Books at MIT Press. His current research is on colonialism and ecocriticism.

Further information:
This course is an elective for all AMU students
Schedule for winter semester 2014/2015:
Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel
10.11.2014 19:00–21:00 VOJTĚCHOVSKÝ M.
S. Cubitt at Národní technická knihovna, Technická street, Praha 6-Dejvice paralelka 1
11.11.2014 11:00–13:00 VOJTĚCHOVSKÝ M.
at FAMU paralelka 1
Schedule for summer semester 2014/2015:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
The subject is a part of the following study plans:
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