IM075 Electronic Art - an Excursion to History of Electricity as an Artistic Device

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 3 credit(s) (plus 1 credit for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: z (credit). Other types of completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Viktor Pantůček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Bc. Jitka Leflíková
Timetable
Thu 15:00–16:35 J21
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
During the semester students will be acquainted to the basic tendencies of the practice of art that reflects or uses the phenomenon of electricity as an instrumetn of art. The aim of the course is to learn students to think in broader intermedial and interdisciplinary connections over the problems of functioning of art at the time of electronic culture.
Syllabus
  • From Light to Laser Art
  • From Kinetism to Kyborg
  • From Radio to Radioart
  • From Film throu Television to Videoart
Literature
  • Virtuelle Kunst in Geschichte und Gegenwart (Orig.) : Virtual art : from illusion to immersion. info
  • POPPER, Frank. From technological to virtual art. London: MIT Press, 2007, xii, 459. ISBN 9780262162302. info
  • LICHT, Alan. Sound art : beyond music, between categories. Edited by Jim O´Rourke. 1st pub. New York: Rizzoli, 2007, 303 s. ISBN 9780847829699. info
  • KOSTELANETZ, Richard. Conversing with Cage. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2003, x, 332. ISBN 0415937922. info
  • GRAU, Oliver. Virtual art :from illusion to immersion. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2003, xiv, 416 s. ISBN 0-262-07241-6. info
  • HIGGINS, Hannah. Fluxus experience. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002, xv, 259. ISBN 0520228677. info
  • Resonances :aspects of sound art. Edited by Berndt Schulz. Heidelberg: Kehrer, 2002, 174 s. ISBN 3933257867. info
  • NYMAN, Michael. Experimental music : Cage and beyond. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, xx, 196. ISBN 0521653835. info
  • Fluxus virus, 1962-1992. Edited by Christel Schüppenhauer. Köln: Galerie Schüppenhauer, 1992, 399 s. ISBN 3926226285. info
  • HERZOGENRATH, Wulf. Nam June Paik : Fluxus, Video. München: Silke Schreiber, 1983, 111 s. ISBN 3889600042. info
  • CHARLES, Daniel. John Cage oder die Musik ist los. Translated by Eberhard Kienle. Berlin: Merve Verlag, 1979, 160 s. ISBN 3883960063. info
Assessment methods
Lecture.Written essay
Language of instruction
Czech
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