Course detail

Studio II - Multimedia - winter

FaVU-B2MU-ZAcad. year: 2017/2018

The core studio course - Multimedia - covers the new media disciplines and represents that form of fine art which use the artist's own body, photography, video, computers, or other electronic or analog media for the recording, transfer, storage, and mediation of images and sounds. The course includes the forms of performance, object art, virtual or physical installation - all focusing directly on the creative act which is an interdisciplinary expression in time and space. Students develop experience from practical courses and connect it with their theoretical knowledge of technologies. The are given individual tasks which they fulfill according to their individual capacities.
Students will gain general knowledge in the divrse field of new media art; they will get to know selected technological, philosophical, and aesthetic problems of multimedia art practice and theory. They will be given tasks such as> a) Net.art. history, artists, aesthetics, contemporary practices
b) Social contexts of artistic practice, relational aesthetics, subversivity in art, tactical media and the internet
During the winter semester, we will focus on the real-time audio and video performace, its history, technology, and contemporary trends. The other artistic genre on which the course focuses is sonic arts - sonic obejcts, installation, and performance.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

15

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Individual approach to the technologies of the studied subject.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of the studied subject.

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

TECHNIOLOGICAL PERFORMANCE AND SONIC ART
a) Real-time audion and video performance - history, material, technology, synthesis, the interconnection of sound and image, contemporary trends
b) sonic arts - the sonic obejct, installation, and performance.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

To elaborate basic exercises in the studied subject.
(Movie) camera - zooming, panning, focusing.
Editing - insert, lap dissolve, more complex picture effects, rhythm.
Realisation, presentation - construction of shape in space, position, construction of space, relatedness, proportionality, installation, scene.

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

Lessons are mandatory.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance, Chris Salter (EN)
Zahrada, Jiří Trnka, 1962 (CS)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme Bachelor's

    branch AMU , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Seminar

156 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer