Course detail
Studio Follow-up I - Photography - summer
FaVU-M1FO-LAcad. year: 2020/2021
Semestrial work - work with the Archive and Appropriation
Major work - exhibition series for the semester exam.
+ Spontaneous exercises (tasks will be given during the learning process, intended for all students except those who are fully dedicated to their own work)
Supervisor
Department
Learning outcomes of the course unit
Greater knowledge in the field of photography and in contemporary art. Critical thinking.
Artistic research.
Prerequisites
Open communication. Creativity and greater experience with the medium of photography in the context of contemporary art. Conceptual thinking. Ability to realize the personal MA program.
Co-requisites
Not applicable.
Recommended optional programme components
Not applicable.
Recommended or required reading
Císař Karel: Co je to fotografie? Herrmann & synové, Praha, 2004 (CS)
Cotton, Charlotte: The Photograph as Contemporary Art, Thames & Hudson, New York, 2004 (EN)
Bourdieu, Pierre, Photography: A Middle-brow Art, trans. Shaun Whiteside Cambridge: Polity Press, paperback ed., 1996 (EN)
Bourriaud, Nicolas: Postprodukce, tranzit.cz, 2004 (CS)
Fontcuberta, Joan: Pandora's Camera. Mack, London, 2014 (EN)
Fontcuberta, Joan ed.: Photography. Crisis of history, Actar, Barcelona, 2002 (EN)
Frizot, Michael: New History of Photography. Kolín nad Rýnem: Könemann, 1998 (EN)
Fried, Michael: Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2008 (EN)
Groys, Boris: Art Power. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008 (EN)
Groys, Boris: On the New. London and New York: Verso, 2014 (EN)
Laruelle, François: Koncept ne-fotografie, Fotograf 07, 2012 (CS)
Paul Wood & Charles Harrison ed.: Art in Theory 1900 - 2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas, United Kingdom, 2003 (EN)
Philips, Lisa: The American Century: Art & Culture 1950 – 2000, New York, 2000 (EN)
Rosenblum, Naomi: A World History of Photography, New York, 1989 (EN)
Warner Marien, Mary: Photography: A Cultural History, Laurence King Publishing, London, 2002 (EN)
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Výuka na základě potřeb studentů a sebevyjádření. Presentations, lectures, individual consultations and discussions, reading. Team building activities.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Exam.
Language of instruction
Czech
Work placements
Not applicable.
Course curriculum
Students will develop the ability to reflect on their own work in a broader context. Apart from the mandatory studio meetings, consultations, analysis of students' major projects and semestrial work (archive and appropriation), students should try the work as a curator and explore opportunities to present their art works. Students must find the consultants for the master thesis.
Topic of semestrial work might change during the process.
Aims
Analysis, presentation and contextualization of students' own work or found material.