Course detail

Media of the Event 3 - summer

FaVU-MED3-LAcad. year: 2016/2017

The course in the theory and history of action art, with the emphasis put on interactive expressions in current media art.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. akad. soch. Tomáš Ruller

Department

Performance Studio (APE)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

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

Prerequisites

Without.

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

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

Course curriculum

1/ Biological space-time - subject - speech (BUTO - Min TANAKA/SANKAI JUKU)
2/ Movement and energy - thinking and language, etymology and semiotics (JUDSON DANCE GROUP)
3/ The speech of an image: the origin of an image in a visual gesture - action painting (MATTIEU/POLLOCK)
4/ The music of speech: acoustic gesture - oral tradition, narration, dramatization, rhetoric (Meredith MONK/Diamanda GALAS)
5/ Type as a fixed gesture - calligraphy (SHIRAGA - GUTAI)
6/ "Gestic action" (Herman NITSCH/ACTIONISM)

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

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.

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

Lessons are obligatory.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme Bachelor's

    branch APE , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

13 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. akad. soch. Tomáš Ruller

Seminar

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. akad. soch. Tomáš Ruller