Czech

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The course theoretically and historically supplements the studies of action art in the area of media and interactive creation.

Without.

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

Course-unit credit.
The prerequisite for the credit is the accomplishment of assigned tasks in the form of a paper.

Static Image - "composition on a plane"
1st block: STILL LIFE (object) - OBSERVATION AND VISION

1.the philosophy of "still life" - silence (John CAGE), emptiness(Yves KLEIN), darkness (James TURREL) - the major phenomena
2.direct life experience with the material world: haptic, tasting, olfactory, sonic and visual qualities (Ana MENDIETA)
3.historical still life: drawing/picture, text/description, theatre
(objects as props) - semantic qualities: fetishism (Piero MANZONI)
4.facticity of things: collage, whole/fragment, documentation/archive (Hanne DARBOVEN)
5.contemporary still life - captured by new media: voyeurism and visionarism (DUCHAMP)
6.action - "still life" dematerialization/no-matter-of-fact-ness (Allan KAPROW)

2nd block: PORTRAIT (subject) - EXPRESSION

1.the philosophy of portrait - artist and his model / self-portrait (GILBERT & GEORGE)
2.the experience of "myself" – perception, projection and interpretation - self-reflection and stylization (Pipilotti RIST)
3.traditional portrait and mask - living pictures (Mariko MORI / Yasumasa MORIMURA)
4.expression in new media: reproduction and medialization (Robert MAPPLETHORPE / Andres SERRANO)
5.face, personality and image (Cindy SHERMAN)
6.action - "portrait / self-portrait"(Skip ARNOLD)

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To develop the abilities to combine and incorporate theoretic knowledge in the area of action art for the sake of reflection of a complex artwork. This is achieved through the cognition of interactive forms of presentation, through the cognition of media strategies of creative entry into reality.

Lessons are obligatory.

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CAGE, John. Silence. Wesleyan: University press (CS)
KELLEY, Jeff. Childsplay: the art of Allan Kaprow. Berkeley: University of California Press (CS)
CAGE, John. Silence: přednášky a texty. Praha: Tranzit (CS)
HRSG. VON OLIVIER BERGGRUEN, MAX HOLLEIN, INGRID PFEIFFER, hrsg. von Olivier Berggruen, Max Hollein, Ingrid Pfeiffer a Olivier Berggruen. Paolo Bianchi.. [et al.]. MIT BEITRÄGEN VON NUIT BANAI. Yves Klein. Ostfildern-Ruit: H. Cantz (CS)
James Turrell: Geometrie des Lichts = geometry of light. Editor Ursula SINNREICH. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz (CS)
VISO, Olga M. Ana Mendieta: earth body : sculpture and performance, 1972-1985. Washington, D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution (CS)

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