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University of Wollongong Research Online Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive) Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts 2010 Using open-source platforms for digital media production Brogan Bunt University of Wollongo ng, brogan@.au Publication Details Bunt, B. Using open-source platforms for digital media production. Mobilizethis 2010. Charles Darwin University: Mobilizethis, 2010. Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library: research-pubs@.au A Technical Framework for Introducing Computational Media Art Practice A/Prof Brogan Bunt Head of Postgraduate Studies Faculty of Creative Arts University of Wollongong Introduction Media art, like contemporary art generally, has a strong critical aspect. Media art practice involves a crucial dimension of interrogating the cultural, social-political and material-aesthetic conditions of media. From Dada photographic collage through to contemporary hardware hacking there is a clearly evident concern to unsettle the representational transparency and taken-for-granted character of media. How does this inform the teaching of media art? It has obvious thematic importance, indicating paths of conceptual access and orientation, but what of the dimension of practice? What of the technical frameworks that we employ and the skills that we teach? How do they obtain a critical inflexion? This paper focuses on an attempt to foster critically informed digital media practice within a first year undergraduate media art subject. Computational Media is the second of two introductory media art subjects within the Bachelor of Digital Media and the Media Art minor at the University of Wollongong. The first subject, Introduction to Media Art, focuses on the conventional media of photography, audio