Multimedia Applications

Course purpose and objectives

Building upon MGA318, this course concerns state-of-the-art methods and technologies, topical aesthetic/artistic trends, and hands-on design practices with respect to creative multimedia and media arts. Accordingly, the students are guided into realizing original multimedia artworks or instruments. In some detail, the students learn to ideate, to co-design and to implement prototypes in workgroups employing:

• State-of-the-art micro-controllers and single-board computers
• State-of-the-art programming environments for creative multimedia
• Electro-mechanical devices, sensors and LEDs
• Miscellaneous materials and mechanical components
• Circuits implemented in PCBs or as ‘deadbugs’
• Algorithms/techniques to generate audio/image, to design interactivity, and to process or employ data in creative fashions
• Methods for group ideation, co-design, improvisation, and creative technological prototyping
• Topical trends in media art, aesthetics, interactivity, HCI, and the convergence of art, science, and philosophy.

Learning outcomes

Having successfully finished the course, the students are able to:

• extrapolate techniques, algorithms, code, circuity, and other resources that concern designing and developing creative multimedia
• evaluate materials, techniques, and use-cases with respect to sensors, electromechanical components, micro-controllers and other kinds of hardware parts in contexts relevant to creative multimedia
• Appreciate trending traits in media art, design, and aesthetics, so that they may compose and create original and/or innovating multimedia artworks

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