Course detail

Studio Follow-up I - Environment - winter

FaVU-M1EN-ZAcad. year: 2014/2015

The course focuses on the individual long-term student projects, realization of an art research project that results in the Master's thesis. The course helps students to select and apply adequate media of an expression. A critical discussion on the issues defined by students enables them to apply an appropriate theoretical framework, and to mediate them related approaches in contemporary art in the Czech Republic and abroad.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

18

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. MgA. Barbora Klímová, ArtD.

Department

Environment Studio (AEN)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

In the winter semester of the first year of the master's degree, students carry out their artistic research. They are able to freely choose and apply the media of their own work. They are aware of the theories in relation with their work. They confront themselves with similar approaches.

Prerequisites

Ability to set and defend the personal MA program.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Presentations, lectures, tutorials, discussions, field trips, study of literature.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

To obtain credits, it is required to submit a completed artistic project, participate in a joint studio program, and edit portfolio of own artistic practice.

Course curriculum

1. Artistic research
2. semester work - test
The studio work is continuously complemented with tutorials within the department or with external experts, with lectures, and field trips to exhibitions, and institutions
in relation to the discussed problems. An integral part of the program is also study of literature and texts related to individual art works.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Definition of a long-term artistic approach; realization of an art research goal; conscious choice and application of the media of expression; the formulation and discussion of urgent issues; orientation in contemporary cultural events in relation to history and non-artistic areas.

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

Submission of assigned projects, attendance, communicating about the overview of cultural events.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

BENJAMIN, W. Dílo a jeho zdroj. Praha: Odeon, 1979.
FARVER, J. (ed) Global Conceptualism. NYC: Queens Museum of Art, 1999.
[GUST] The Urban Condition: Space, Community, and Self in the Contemporary Metropolis. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 1999.
HAVRÁNEK, V. (ed), Akce slovo pohyb prostor (kat. výst.). Praha: Galerie hlavního města Prahy 1999.
LIPPARD, L. Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
MARCUS, G. Stopy rtěnky, //tajná historie dvacátého století//. Votobia, 1998.
MITCHEL W. Space, Place, and the Infobahn, City of Bits. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1999.
MORGANOVÁ, P. Akční umění. Olomouc: Votobia, 1999.
VIDLER, A. The Architectural Uncanny, Essays in the Modern Unhomely, The MIT Press, 1992.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme Master's

    branch AEN , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. MgA. Barbora Klímová, ArtD.

Syllabus

Přednášku vede vedoucí ateliéru podle potřeb aktuální výuky.

Seminar

195 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. MgA. Barbora Klímová, ArtD.

Syllabus

Výuka probíhá podle pokynů vedoucího ateliéru a v souladu s individuálními tvůrčími kvalitami studentů.