Course detail

Studio I - Multimedia - summer

FaVU-B1MU-LAcad. year: 2017/2018

The core studio course - Multimedia - covers the new media disciplines and represents that form of fine art which use the artist's own body, photography, video, computers, or other electronic or analog media for the recording, transfer, storage, and mediation of images and sounds. The course includes the forms of performance, object art, virtual or physical installation - all focusing directly on the creative act which is an interdisciplinary expression in time and space.
Students will gain general knowledge in the divrse field of new media art; they will get to know selected technological, philosophical, and aesthetic problems of multimedia art practice and theory. They will be given tasks such as> field recordings, found footage, non-linear hypertext narrativity, performance in virtual environment, VJ-ing.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

15

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

- solution of multimedia realisations, video-installation, video-statue, interactive work of art, CD-ROM and DVD-ROM realisations, internet presentations
- production of multimedia data applications such as encyclopedias
- research in the area of hyperstructures or non-linear story forms, computer games and new multimedia applications in the area of massmedia, the issue of a digital artwork

Prerequisites

Theoretic and practical experience from the first completed semester of studies.

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

Semester exam project.

Course curriculum

field recordings, found footage, non-linear hypertext narrativity.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

To use mainly the newest integrated technologies, telecommunication systems, robotics and computers as multiple mediating environments, objects and techniques for the formation of the new artistic expression.
To enhance the preparedness of students for the realisation of their presentations in the most complex form of interactive installations and environments which can be visited, influenced and changed by the viewer.

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

Lessons are mandatory.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Basic literature

http://monoskop.org/Monoskop (EN)
The New Media Reader, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Nick Montfort (Eds.) (EN)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme Bachelor's

    branch AMU , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

Přednášku vede vedoucí ateliéru podle potřeb aktuální výuky.

Seminar

156 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

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