TIM_B_045 Media-Action III

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2020
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Taught online.
Teacher(s)
prof. ak. soch. Tomáš Ruller (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. ak. soch. Tomáš Ruller
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Bc. Jitka Leflíková
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 14:00–15:50 326
Prerequisites
The ability to work with Internet and print resources in English.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 60 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/60, only registered: 0/60, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/60
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The main objective of the course is to acquaint students with key action artists and their significant artworks. It si organized as a research on action media in structure of given themes.
Learning outcomes
Student will be able to:
- identify and summarize the important features of individual works and the collective action art movements;
- Identify and describe current domestic and foreign artistic trends in the action art;
- create a text file in accordance with the citation standard and present a paper on a selected topic;
- to compare and highlight the differences in the attitudes of individual artists;
- to apply the basic terminology of the field to specific works of art;
- analyze current trends in the field of action art;
- describe the means used to implement a specific work of action art.
Syllabus
  • OBJECT IN MOTION (Machine / Robot) – MECHANICAL RHYTHM (ART & TECHNOLOGY)
  • 1. Nam June PAIK, VASULKA’S (Steina & Woody) – Media & Robotics,
  • 2. Bruce NAUMAN, Joan JONAS, DUMB TYPE – VIDEO / Performance,
  • 3. Garry HILL, Bill VIOLA, Douglas GORDON, STUDIO AZZURRO – VIDEO / Installation,
  • 4. Jeffrey SHAW, KNOWBOTIC Research, VAN GOGH TV – Hi-tech & VR,
  • 5. SURVIVAL Research, BOW GAMELAN, Roman SIGNER, Eric HOBIJN, FISCHLI & WEISS, Cai Guo QIANG – Explosive Processes,
  • 6. La Monte YOUNG, Alvin LUCIER, Pauline OLIVEROS, Terry FOX, Joe JONES, Paul PANHUYSEN – SOUND ART,
  • FIGURE IN MOTION (gesture / dance / voice) – BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM
  • 1. Iuichi INOUE, Lucio FONTANA (ZERO), Georges MATTIEU, Jackson POLLOCK,
  • 2. AKCIONISMUS – NITSCH, SCHWARTZKOGLER, BRUS, MÜHL,
  • 3. GUTAI – YOSHIHARA, SHIMAMOTO, SHIRAGA, MURAKAMI, TANAKA,
  • 4. BUTO – ONO, HIJIKATA, TANAKA, SANKAI JUKU, DAI RAKUDA KAN,
  • 5. Merce CUNNINGHAM, JUDSON DANCE (BROWN, PAXTON, REINER, HAY, CHILDS), Pina BAUSCH, NEUER TANZ, – Dance,
  • 6. SOUND POETRY (CHOPIN, GINSBERG, BORROUGHS), Meredith MONK, Diamanda GALÁS – Voice and Speech.
Literature
  • ALEXANDRA MUNROE. [COORGANIZED BY THE JAPAN FOUNDATION ..]. Japanese art after 1945: scream against the sky ; [exhibition tour: Yokohama Museum of Art, February 5 - March 30, 1994, Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York September 14, 1994 - January 8, 1995, Sa
  • MEREWETHER, Charles., Rika Iezumi. HIRO a Reiko. TOMII. Art, anti-art, non-art: experimentations in the public sphere in postwar Japan, 1950-1970. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, c2007. ISBN 0892368667.
  • World Wide Video, Academy Editions – London
  • HANHARDT, John G. a Nam June PAIK. The worlds of Nam June Paik. New York: Guggenheim Museum, c2000. ISBN 0892072202.
  • Shanken, Edward A., ed. 2009. Art and Electronic Media. London , New York:Phaidon Press
Teaching methods
1/1 lecture and seminiar.
Assessment methods
The condition of completion is in chosen term a presentation of the paper (15-20 min.) including visual documentation - projection, credit comes after the submission of the seminar paper in digital form, total of at least 50% of the attendance is expected (possible reasoned lower attendance is replaced in the corresponding proportion by the elaboration of the additional seminar paper submitted in examination period).

The case of exam is oral on a randomly selected topic from all topics of the semester.
Language of instruction
Czech
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