Course detail

Studio III - Multimedia - winter

FaVU-B3MU-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.
This semester, students focus on simple interactivity: sensors, hardware hacking, net performance, sonification and visualisation of data, design of experimental interface, controlls, and tools.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

15

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Interconnection of the basics of theoretic studies with practical atelier work.

Prerequisites

Mastering the theory and practice of the 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

OBJECT IN MOTION/MOVEMENT
a) The theme of movement in the world artistic creation.
b) Movement from the physical and philosophical viewpoint.
c) Music of speech/speech of music - sonic values and articulations, development of music opinion.
d) Mechanism, energetics/electricity, machine, artificial systems, software, automaton, robot.
e) Accurate sensorics, sensors, monitoring systems.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

To master the technology of the studied subject.
To elaborate basic exercises in the studied subject.
(Movie) camera - digital recording, live transmission, multichannel video
Editing - digital processing of picture, superimposing, hyperstructures
Scene - light - projection, lasers, optical aids, sound - records, microphones, dubbing, mix, effects, music, text - voice, singing, script, typography

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

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme Bachelor's

    branch AMU , 3. year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Seminar

156 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer