Course detail

Studio Follow-up I - Photography - summer

FaVU-M1FO-LAcad. year: 2023/2024

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)

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

18

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

MgA. Ivars Gravlejs, Ph.D.

Department

Photography Studio (AFO)

Entry knowledge

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.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Exam.

Aims

Analysis, presentation and contextualization of students' own work or found material.
Greater knowledge in the field of photography and in contemporary art. Critical thinking.
Artistic research.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

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)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme VUM Master's

    branch VU-IDT , 1. year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

MgA. Ivars Gravlejs, Ph.D.
Mgr. Tomáš Javůrek, Ph.D.

Syllabus

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.

Seminar

195 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

MgA. Ivars Gravlejs, Ph.D.