Course detail

Atelier I - Environment - summer

FaVU-B1EN-LAcad. year: 2010/2011

The Atelier of Environment explores the forms in which a work of art enters the environment and the influence of environment on the language of fine art. The term "installation" is seen as a form in which a work of art is defined by its relation to space, place, environment, while using both traditional and new technologies and media.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

15

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. akad. malíř Vladimír Merta

Department

Environment Studio (AEN)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Orientation in the context and meaning of art creation. Practical and theoretical knowledge necessary to use technologies and formal principles of the branch of art " Environment - Installation".

Prerequisites

Theoretic and practical experience from the first completed semester of studies.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations..

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Semester exam project.

Course curriculum

2nd semester: Object - Thing
Object - Thing
a) object world in fine arts (still life, detail)
b) isolated object - visualisation, analysis
c) object - function, context
d) forms - organic, inorganic
e) interpretation - objective and subjective aspects
f) text - form of defence, form of artefact

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Students and graduates of Bachelor´s and Master´s study programmes should acquire experiences, knowledge and skills necessary for developing their individual positions of artists in the efficiently functionig academic environment, but mainly for their future artistic practice.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Lessons are mandatory.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Basic literature

FARVER, J. (ed) Global Conceptualism. NYC: Queens Museum of Art, 1999.
KWON, M. One Place after Another Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2004.
MARCUS, G. Stopy rtěnky, //tajná historie dvacátého století//. Votobia, 1998.
MORGANOVÁ, P. Akční umění. Olomouc: Votobia, 1999.

Recommended reading

BENJAMIN, W. Dílo a jeho zdroj. Praha: Odeon, 1979.
BEY, H. Dočasná autonomní zóna. Praha: Tranzit, 2004.
BOURRIAUD, N. Postprodukce. Praha: Tranzit, 2004.
CÍSAŘ, K. (ed.), Co je to fotografie? Praha: Herrmann & synové, 2004.
[GUST] The Urban Condition: Space, Community, and Self in the Contemporary Metropolis. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 1999.
[GUST] Post Ex Sub Dis. Urban Fragmentations and Constructions. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2003.
HAVRÁNEK, V. (ed), Akce slovo pohyb prostor (kat. výst.). Praha: Galerie hlavního města Prahy 1999.
LANDA de, M. A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History. New York: Zone Books, 2000.
LUCIE-SMITH, E. Movements in Art since 1945. London: Thames & Hudson, 2001.
VIDLER, A. The Architectural Uncanny, Essays in the Modern Unhomely, The MIT Press, 1992.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme Bachelor's

    branch AEN , 1. year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

81 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. akad. malíř Vladimír Merta

Seminar

324 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. akad. malíř Vladimír Merta