The course is an introduction to the Digital Aesthetics Area at ITU, and is designed so that you acquire experience with the three approaches we work with at graduate levels: Theory, Analysis and Creative Practice.

We will thus have 10 sessions that combine Theory and Analysis and 4 intensive sessions where the outcome will be creative practice.

The Theory and Analysis sessions will alter between lectures, group work, and critical discussions, and will always require preparation at home in the form of reading and writing. Key aesthetic perspectives and genres will be identified and discussed. Sometimes the students will work in groups and sometimes individually. We will also engage on small exploratory aesthetic design exercises.

The Creative Practise sessions will be organized as intensive workshops, running four weeks in a row and culminating in an exhibition. Students will work in groups and produce digital artworks.

This course is worth 7.5 ECTS, which is a quarter of the study time. The expected study time is therefore 10 hours a week, four hour scheduled teaching activities plus six hours preparation, reading and writing. 

Internal examiner, 7-point marking scale, X: experimental

The course has continuous evaluation.
Students will work on sketchbook every week which is the basis for both the compulsory activities and the exam.

The final evaluation for this course consists of submitting the whole writers sketchbook in the end and a separate selection of 10 entries as pdf which the teacher will specify in advance.