Aesthetics of the New Media: Music and Colour

The course aims to provide students with a philosophical foundation regarding how new media are changing our perception of the world. In particular, the relationship between new media, music and color will be explored. We will examine the repercussions of digital images and music in aesthetics, in the spheres of both art and everyday-life. Along with the notion of "medium", other related themes will be investigated each year, such as digital image and music, digital performance, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence.

At the end of the course, students will be able to develop a critical approach to the aesthetic transformations implied by the new media. Students will be able to apply this knowledge to the contemporary philosophical and artistic debate. They will be able to investigate and evaluate a digital image, a piece of digital music, or a work of art that makes use of virtual reality or artificial intelligence, and think in-depth about the presence of these new technologies and the new responsibilities that they imply.