Program Overview

Dynamic Art and Technology Module

Module Description

The Dynamic Art and Technology module focuses on the perception and experience of movements and transitions. Students work with principles for creating time-based artifacts and experiencing artifacts that express temporal, spatial, and affective transitions. Various media technologies and technical solutions are explored and applied in the development of products, artifacts, and installations in the project unit.

Course Content

• The module introduces students to fundamental problem areas and solutions related to the development of artistic projects that express different forms of dynamic effects and transitions.
• Students learn about art works supported by technologies that express dynamic effects and physical, aesthetic transitions.
• The course covers perception and the experimental effects of dynamic artifacts.
• Diverse mechanical and electronic technologies used in dynamic art contexts are explored.
• Students discover artistic expression forms using media technologies to create interactivity in real-time.

Learning Objectives

Knowledge

The objective of the Dynamic Art and Technology module is to provide students with an introduction to basic problem areas and solutions concerning the development of artistic projects that express different forms of dynamic effects and transitions.

Students will gain basic knowledge about:

• Art works supported by technologies that express dynamic effects and physical, aesthetic transitions.
• Perception and the experimental effects of dynamic artifacts.
• Diverse mechanical and electronic technologies used in dynamic art contexts.
• Artistic expression forms using media technologies to create interactivity in real-time.
• The use of scientific and artistic methods and tools in the design and implementation of artifacts or installations that express or trigger physical movement.

Skills

Students will acquire skills in:

• Identifying and formulating an artistic problem within the semester's theme.
• Analyzing an artistic problem and developing alternative concepts for the defined problem.
• Justifying the use of specific technologies in the design of installations that express transitions, movement, or transformation.
• Identifying, developing, and describing the interaction between form, material choice, and technological solutions with the aim of achieving a clear aesthetic expression and result.
• Applying scientific and artistic methods with regard to the interaction between technology, material choice, aesthetic expression, and user experience in the development of dynamic artifacts and installations.

Competences

Students will gain competences in:

• Describing and analyzing works and installations that use adaptive technologies.
• Applying adaptive technologies within the design and implementation of artifacts or installations that express physical movement and transformation.
• Placing their own artistic solutions in a context (in relation to modern, socio-cultural requirements and consequences, art-theoretical and aesthetic dimensions, etc.).
• Describing the finished design scientifically and communicating this in a project report, portfolio, etc.

Teaching Methods

The working method involves group and project work.

Examination

Exam Details

• Exam name: Dynamic Art and Technology
• Exam form: Oral exam based on a project
• The exam is conducted as a conversation between the student(s), examiner, and external censor based on the student(s)' project report, which can be a process report or portfolio, and the product developed by the student(s).
• Project exam will also cover other subjects from the module courses.
• Submission: In groups or individually
• Scope: The written work must not exceed 10 pages per student (15 pages for individual reports).
• Exam duration: 20 minutes per student and 10 minutes for assessment and grading per group, with a maximum of 2 hours.
• ECTS: 15
• Assessment form: 7-point scale
• Censorship: External exam
• Evaluation criteria: Evaluation criteria are stated in the University's examination regulations.

Module Facts

• English title: Dynamic Art and Technology
• Module code: KOTBA
• Module type: Project
• Duration: 1 semester
• Semester: Autumn
• ECTS: 15
• Language of instruction: Danish and English
• Place of instruction: Campus Aalborg
• Module responsible: Stine Lindahl Jacobsen
• Included in: Study program for the Bachelor's program in Art and Technology, 2019

Organization

• Study board: Study Board for Art, Health, and Technology
• Department: Department of Communication and Psychology
• Faculty: The Faculty of Humanities