Multimedia Dramaturgy

The course aims to cover media theories in relation to artistic and performance experimentation from the avant-garde to the present day; the main theories linked to the languages of digital media, the web and artificial intelligence will be explored. At the same time, the course will indicate the path that led from the analogical performance experiments of the 1980s to the interactive digital scene, pointing out the complexity of the phenomenon and reflecting on the social and economic repercussions and on the changing role of the artist.

The knowledge of the experimental artistic horizon, and the knowledge of the characteristics and potential of the media, of the new tools introduced by information technologies, gives a general understanding of the current phenomena also in view of the increasing demand for technological development skills also for cultural, curatorial and museum projects, i.e. applied to the field of technological design of the fruition of the cultural heritage.