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Learning to set up and systematically conduct historical research, using archival and other sources, learning to critically assess and interpret these sources within a clearly stated and discussed methodological and theoretical framework.
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This course is for students in the RMA Media, Arts and Performance Studies, NLC, CLS, Art History, Musicology and Gender Studies. The entrance requirements for Exchange Students will be checked by International Office and the Programme coordinator. You do not have to contact the Programme coordinator by yourself.
Screens, projections, displays, sound technologies, together with many other aspects of our experience of media, media arts, and performances today do have a history. In this course, students will conduct research into various aspects of this history by formulating their own research question within the thematic field defined by the supervisor.
Students will situate their research within a theoretical and/or historiographic framework, explicitly state their research method and strategy, identify relevant source material in archives and museums, but also in online databases, select, critically analyse and interpret their sources.
The course aims to provide training in historical research methods, using traditional (analogue) but also digital source material. It will be offered every block. In blocks 1 and 3 it will deal with early cinema and its cultural significance, in blocks 2 and 4 it will focus on media archaeological research on specific media objects..
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Career orientation:
The course trains skills in historical analysis of media, art and performance; in working with live, analogue or digital source materials; in comparing and reflecting on contemporary and historical practices of collecting, archiving and presenting media, art and performance; in professional and academic argumentation and presentation, all of which can be applied to a variety of professional fields (cultural institutions such as museums and archives, academia, media, education, etc.).
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