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1. New Media Term Paper
New Media Term Paper
Requirements:
You will analyze an artwork (or a series of works of art, an exhibition after the 1960s...) and
explain how, in your opinion, this specific artwork raises questions about the nature of the
images or sounds generated by new media or the relationship we have with reality through
them.
The paper can focus on issues raised such as imitation, recording, encoding, the notion of
format, the concept of simulacrum, or the (critical) misuses of new media.
-The article should be about 15,000 characters (5 pages/8 pages double space) maximum.
You must choose your standards, by imagining for example that you submit this paper to a
magazine, a journal, a newspaper, an Internet site... of your choice.
However, certain academic standards must be respected: always cite your sources, and
indicate this in footnotes and in a short bibliography at the end.
Do not hesitate to add hyperlinks or images.
Inspirations:
One of the remarkable features of art from the 1960s onwards concerns the unraveling of
traditional media - what we call transmedia, hybridization, mixed media, etc. The arts
imitate the other arts and borrow from their ways of creating: music becomes spatial,
painting becomes temporal; happenings abolish the limits between art and life... But with
the new media, these attitudes go further: the creation, the production, and the reception of
works are disrupted; the notion of the author is extended... Even the way of analyzing these
new phenomena evolves, and academic research is transformed.
You could address the philosophical issues raised by the creation of new media and analyze
the historical, social, and technical context in which they have emerged. You can now try to
"map" the new media and define their characteristics in our time.