Educational objectives The course Cinema and New Media aims to explore the dynamics of exchange, contamination, and convergence between cinema and the emerging expressive forms of digital new media. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the course investigates how cinema has influenced — and in turn has been transformed by — other media languages: from television to video games, from streaming platforms to social media, all the way to immersive experiences in virtual and augmented reality. The goal is to understand how traditional boundaries between media have become increasingly porous, giving rise to new narrative, aesthetic, and productive forms.
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Educational objectives This course aims to explore the transformations that artificial intelligence is bringing about in the creative, production and communication processes of the performing arts, providing students with both theoretical and practical tools to navigate this rapidly evolving landscape critically. Through an interdisciplinary approach that weaves together media theory, theatre studies and digital culture, the course guides students from an understanding of the fundamentals of AI to applied experimentation in the contexts of live performance, cinema, multimedia performance and sound arts.
Module I — AI in the Performing Arts (6 ECTS)
The first module examines the relationship between artificial intelligence and performing arts practices from historical, aesthetic and technological perspectives. Beginning with a critical review of the main paradigms of generative AI — with particular attention to linguistic, visual and auditory models — the module analyses the ways in which these tools are redefining authorial roles, production logics and modes of engagement with contemporary performance. Through the analysis of case studies drawn from theatre, dance, opera, digital performance and interactive installation, students acquire the ability to interpret AI-mediated works from an aesthetic and cultural perspective, and to assess their ethical implications in relation to artistic identity, copyright and audience participation. The module alternates between lectures, seminars with artists and industry professionals, and sessions of critical analysis of audiovisual and stage materials.
Module II — Intermedial Writing Techniques for the Performing Arts (6 ECTS)
The second module is primarily workshop-based and is structured around two complementary strands: dramaturgy for contemporary theatre and intermedial writing practices assisted by artificial intelligence. By exploring the possibilities offered by AI as a tool for dramaturgical composition, generative storytelling and the design of sound and visual space, students learn prompt design methodologies applied to writing for the stage, hypertextual and non-linear writing techniques, and approaches to constructing performative scores that integrate verbal, visual and digital languages. The module involves individual and group practical exercises, culminating in a final intermedial writing project — dramaturgy, script, stage concept or multimedia score — developed with the critical support of AI tools and discussed in seminars.
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