Digital Arts and New Media

DANM254I Empirical Approaches to Art Information

Reading and practice in empirical methods, as applied to the study of music, visual art, multimedia production, and performance arts. Topics include semiotics, critiques of empiricism, cultural determinants and contingents of perception, the psychophysics of information, sensory perception (visual and auditory), memory, pattern recognition, and awareness. Students apply existing knowledge in the cognitive sciences to a developing creative project, or develop and conduct new experiments.

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Credits

5

Instructor

Benjamin Carson

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Also offered as

MUSC 254I

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.