Courses
VART2226 Design for Hypermedia (3 units)
- Prerequisite:
- VART1006 Visual Arts Practice II or any GDCV courses offered by AVA or any Visual Arts courses
The Internet has become an important—if not the most important—channel of our media-based communication, and it makes good sense for designers and artists to have the creative and also technical skills to develop concepts for the hypermedia. The World Wide Web is a classic and popular example of hypermedia. Accordingly the purpose of this course is to give an introduction to the Internet as an artistic medium and provide a foundation of historical, cultural and technical knowledge related to Internet art. The core of the course will be developing students' own artistic voice using this particular way of communication.
That includes the examination of theory, history and practices of Internet art and related concepts of hypermedia, open source, connectivity, non-linear narrative and hacktivism. At the same time students will learn the basic technologies and design skills to publish their artistic statements and concepts online.