Course detail

Studio III - Video - summer

FaVU-B3VI-LAcad. year: 2023/2024


Part of the summer semester of the third year are tasks and challenges associated with advanced forms of the manipulation with moving image. Combined with the experience gained from the previous semester, 3rd year student in video studio, should be able to create complex audio-visual or other artistic work, which already meets all the demands expected it in the context of contemporary art. In addition to managing all formal aspects of the work, the student is guided to a wider knowledge of contemporary visual culture and orientation within the current artistic and social theories. In the summer semester of the third year students should have comprehensively defined idea about their future artistic direction.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

15

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Mgr. Martin Mazanec, Ph.D.

Department

Video Studio (AVI)

Entry knowledge

Mastering the theory and practice of the subject.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Semester exam project.
Lessons are mandatory.

Aims

To deepen the knowledge in the main field of study
Interconnection of the basics of theoretic studies with practical atelier work.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Basic literature

Mondrian, Piet : Lidem budoucnosti, studie k neoplasticizmu
Flusser, Vilém : Za filozofii fotografie

Recommended reading

Lyotard, Jean - Francois : O post-modernismu

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme VUB Bachelor's

    branch VU-IDT , 3. year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. Martin Mazanec, Ph.D.
doc. MgA. Jan Šrámek, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Communication in media environment. Philosophical and conceptual links of artefact. In media is the message...? (McLuhan). References of classical modernism and interferences to contemporary art - mixed media. Objects, installations, objet trouvé and ready made (M. Duchamp) - realisation of artefact in various materials, legacy of Bauhaus - from Fluxus to multimedia installations (Nam June Paik). Actions (performance) in space, meaning of time limit, processuality (J. Beuys, P. Štembera, J. Surůvka), self-destructive art? - (e.g. J. Tinguely -object/action). Individual orientation and the following specifics of students´ selected programmes - on the basics of the studio assignment. Students are free to suggest an individual alternative solution.

Seminar

156 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. Martin Mazanec, Ph.D.