• The morning runs as seminar sessions with presentations and discussions on key aspects of digital aesthetics. The seminar sessions alter between lectures, student presentations, group work, and critical discussions. Student present selected texts and examples of artworks, from which key artistic concepts and strategies are identified and discussed.

• The afternoon runs as laboratory session with staged prototype events, exploring key aspects of experience design and composition of artistic events. Through practical sessions students will explore how to strategise experience qualities through staging explorative prototype events.

• The first part of the course introduces key concepts, positions and method, enabling the students to engage in an explorative process by seminar discussions and laboratory events.

• Midway the students deliver a draft synopsis on their exam paper.

• The second part of the course introduces more complex perspectives and integrated approaches to analysis and creation.
 

All students work in groups.
Each group delivers a synopsis of an individual research project mid-way in the course. The synopsis consists of 2 pages, which identify the theme of investigation, outline the intended content, and propose a strategy for the project research. NB!It is mandatory to hand in the synopsis in order to be eligible for the exam.

The students participate in peer critique processes, present their work in progress, and engage in critical discussions.

Each student group delivers a written essay, 6-8 pages, with linked media on DVD.
The essay should be delivered in print at the exam office, with all linked material on DVD.
The exam is based on the extent to which the essay meets the course goals.
NB! The individual contribution from each participant in a student group to the final essay must be stated clearly in the essay (e.g. in an appendix), in order to enable an individual assessment of each student.