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Course Name	Turkish	Bilişim ve Medya Sanatları
	English	Informatics and Media Arts
Course Code	BLU 535E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	1	1	1
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Ebru Belgin Yetişkin Doğrusöz
Course Objectives		This course aims, 1. to comprehend the interaction of informatics and media arts, 2. to scrutinize the theories, terms and concepts of informatics and media art studies in order to provide the students with an intellectual point of view, 3. to let the students acquire a basic information on informatics and media art where they could use them to understand the age that they live in.
Course Description		Focusing on contemporary theoretical discussions about informatics and media arts, this course includes tutorial and laboratory assignments, which aim to foster knowledge and experience of the students. Students will also analyze artworks of informatics and media arts by exploring how innovative approaches can be developed.
Course Outcomes		This course aims, 1. to comprehend the interaction of informatics and media arts, 2. to scrutinize the theories, terms and concepts of informatics and media art studies in order to provide the students with an intellectual point of view, 3. to let the students acquire a basic information on informatics and media art where they could use them to understand the age that they live in.
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Textbook		• Wilson, Stephen (2003) Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science and Technology: The MIT Press, Cambridge
Other References		• Bazzichelli, Tatiana (2006) Networking: The Net as Artwork, Digital Aesthetics Research Center: Aarhus • Bogacs, Hannes (2011) Art-Based Research in New Media Art: On The Covergence of Art Practice, Scientific Inquiry, and Technological Innovation, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken • Fuller, Matthew (2005) Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture, The MIT Press, Cambridge, London • Fuller, Matthew and Goffet, Andrew (2012) Evil Media, The MIT Press: Cambridge, London • Galloway, Alexander (2004) Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization, The MIT Press: Cambridge • Galloway, Alexander (2012) The Interface Effect, Polity Press:Cambridge • Krapp, Peter (2011) Noise Channels: Glitch and Error in Digital Culture, Electronic Mediations, Vol. 37, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, London • Mosco, Vincent (2014) To The Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World, Paradigm Publishers: Boulder, London • Nunes, Mark (ed) (2011) Error: Glitch, Noise and Jam in New Media Cultures, Bloomsbury: New York, London • Parikka, Jussi (2010) Insect Media: An Archeology of Animals and Technology, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, London • Sampson, Tony (2012) Virality: Contagion Theory in The Age of Networks, University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis, London • Schubert, Teresa and Adamatzky, Andrew (Eds) (2015) Experiencing The Unconventional: Science in Art, World Scientific, Singapore • Terranova, Tiziana (2004) Network Culture: Politics for The Information Age, Pluto Press: London

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