Assignments, assessment and learning outcomes¶
Assignments¶
Every week is accompanied by several assignments: one reading assignment and several study-assignments. The reading assignments are meant to introduce you to the key concepts that have to do with the subject at hand; together they create an intellectual playing field in which art and technology operate.
Study assignments are meant to create an understanding of the possibilities that emerge when art and technology coincide. These assignments are accompanied with issues and questions, which will challenge you to relate the works with the topic at hand (or the other way around). You are encouraged to make use of your own creativity and create work that illustrates the topics under consideration.
Portfolio¶
You can work on your answers to the questions and your analyses of the artworks during the whole period of the OffCourse, finetuning and adding to your work.
This way, at the end of the term, you will have created a portfolio. This portfolio will be assessed both artistically and philosophically. The form and format of the portfolio is free: as long as you answer the questions that are raised, you can use all your ideas abnd creativity: a traditional pdf-document, a website, a series of filmclips, poems, whatever is your strong suit.
Though form and format of the portfolio is free, the questions below can be used as guidance:
- Is the portfolio complete? Does it contain answers to the questions that were raised during the offcourse?
- Is the portfolio thorough? Do the answers prove to be interesting, complete, thorough, detailed, ...?
- Is the portfolio creative? Does it contain creative and novel ideas and insights?
- Is the portfolio convincing? Do the works and the texts gathers in the portfolio actually make sense?
Feedback on the portfolio will be given during the whole course of the offcourse. Since the form of the portfolio is free, it is not possible to state up front what materials students will be needing.
Mindmap¶
Every session you will work on a mindmap. The term at the center of this mindmap is the subject under consideration; you are meant to expand on this mindmap during your study of all the assignments as well as during the discussion in class.
At the end of the term, you are asked to integrate all these mindmaps into one. You need to present this mindmap at the posterpitch that we will organize. At this pitch, we (the teachers) and your co-students will ask you about this general mindmap.
Learning outcomes¶
During the offcourse, participants will
- Present their own arguments orally and engage in constructive debate.
- Conduct independent artistic research on a philosophical topic by finding, assessing, and employing relevant artworks and literature.
- Understand the impact of the history of philosophy on current views on art, morality, reality and freedom.
- Boldly and effectively question traditional answers to enduring questions.
- Apply contextualist and analytic methods to interpret historically significant answers to artistic questions
After completion of this offcourse, participants will
- Understand the relationship between art and technology, both in a historical and in a contemporary sense.
- Understand the sociological and philosophical issues related to art and technology.
- Apply their knowledge to evaluate technological and artistic practices, developments and artifacts.
- Apply the learned methodology to position themselves within the debate concerning art and technology.
- Be able to reflect critically (orally, written, and/or using other media) on statements concerning the relationship between art and technology.
- Use the gained insights to improve reasoning about their own artistic practice and to position themselves within the tradition.