54-490 Special Topics in Media: Mediated Reality
10 units, Carnegie Mellon University
Mediated Realities is an advanced studio course that investigates the potential applications of mediatedreality technologies and locationbased interactivity for storytelling, sitespecific artmaking, and live performance broadly defined. Converging trends in cultural production, mobile computation, and media technologies present new affordances for artists and designers to shape locationbased experiences. Studio work engages a breadth of strategies in postmedia aesthetics, as related to ones experience and understanding of place. Transmedia storytelling, realtime graphics, machine learning, gamification, locative artworks, augmented reality and powerful portable media devices present opportunities for artists and designers to create experiences that heighten multisensory experience by merging live performance and participant interaction with systems for digital information, imagery, and 3D visualization all ubiquitously available in lowcost and widely distributable formats e.g. apps, mobile web sites. The course frames technological experimentation in the context of 1970s Land Art, Happenings, Fluxus games, Performance Art, Expanded Cinema, and the unresolved theoretical issues emerging from this rich period in American history site specificity, competing definitions of community, the effects of media and representation, audienceperformer dynamics, and the nature and limits of the art work. Reading discussions, site visits, and presentations from outside experts CMU faculty, visiting artists will expose a range of relevant topics, disciplinary and creative perspectives, and potential avenues for investigation. Specific areas of focus will include Pittsburgh history, local ecological dynamics, labor history and the effects of technology on the landscape and lives of Pittsburghs population.
Prerequisites: none listed
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