FF:IM047 A-V seminar I - Course Information
IM047 A-V seminar: New Media Art I
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2017
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: graded credit.
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Martina Ivičič (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Bc. Jitka Leflíková
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- each even Tuesday 14:10–17:25 N21
- Prerequisites
- At the end of the semester students will be able * to formulate their own apprehension in the reflexion on media art. * to recognize the influences which affected these media art works * to analyze particular works of media artist according to their position in media art history * to evaluate the contribution of the key works from the history to the development of media art.
- 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 150 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/150, only registered: 0/150, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/150 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Theory of Interactive Media (programme FF, B-HS)
- Theory of Interactive Media (programme FF, B-OT) (2)
- Course objectives
- This seminar introduces to students the typical and distinct works of media art. In first semester we will focus on art production retrospectively understood as predecessors of new media art, with special focus on 20 century.
- Syllabus
- New media archaeology: The HUMAN-MACHINE concept in the first part of 20.century Media art forerunners: Futurists and sound, French avant-garde, experimental film of ´60, Dada cinema, Fluxus Films John Cage: the character and the artwork Pioneers of videoart: Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell, Woody and Steina Vasulka The Expo phenomenon: Varése, Le Corbusier, Xenakis: Poéme électronique Media and performance.Multimédia: Rauschenberg, Xenakis Zdeněk Pěšánek: Světlo proníká tmou, 1930 Czech and Slovak contemporary videoart. Video and intermedia
- Literature
- recommended literature
- Tribe Mark-Reena, Jana: New Media art, Taschen 2009
- Rusnáková, Katarína: V toku pohyblivých obrazov. VŠVU, Bratislava 2005
- Artists as inventors - inventors as artists. Edited by Dieter Daniels - Barbara U. Schmidt. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2008, 237 s. ISBN 9783775721530. info
- Teaching methods
- AV projection, seminar, "homewatch"
- Assessment methods
- Final work consists of two components: The first is audio or video / audio or audiovisual presentation (1-5 minutes) The second is the accompanying theoretical concept / abstract of this work (max 1 A4) Assignment: Use any approaches and strategies and re-create older works from the history of new media art. Place the old work in the current context and give it new meaning. Respond current technological capabilities to avant-garde practices, ideas, strategies. Current prosumer is able to create his own story in response to what he just saw. The aim of this final work of audio-visual seminar is the ability of students to express themself not only by theoretical text, but also by their own audio-visual production. AV seminar is only to highlight the key works of new media archeology closely linked to the major concepts and the emergence of new artistic approaches. Availability of recording media, open source software, freeware for editing digital recording enables students to express themself in a more creative way. The aim is to encourage students to actively search tools for processing and manipulating available data.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2017, recent)
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