Course detail

Interactive storytelling 2

FaVU-1INST2Acad. year: 2022/2023

The subject partly refers to the method of a „dialogical acting“, primarily used as an actor’s method in the form of a psychosomatic and communication discipline (Ivan Vyskočil is the author of this method). Part of the course will be also introductory theoretic familiarization with some movement forms, or forms of a physical theatre, contemporary dance - in connection with the critical theory.

The concept of the course lies actually in a series of the acts in the form of practical experimental group exercises/discussions, and individual consultations and workshops focused on improvisation, self-recognition, playing, dialogue and critical reflection of author‘s approach in the artistic output, in connection to the expression, idea and movement, perceived through a choreographic framework.

The term Interactive Storytelling is more often used in the gaming environment of so called „open world“, but also, for example, in the immersive theatre. It is a narration of a story in which the actor influences the plot, as well as the environment itself through his acting, and vice versa - the environment influences the actor himself. When forming a construction of such an interactive story, it is necessary to identify as much potential interactions as possible in the network of participants, i.e. to realise and to recognize the environment elements and their choreography.

 

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Mgr. Václav Magid

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The completing of the course should help students to strengthen their ability of critical reflection of themselves and their surroundings, and also to extend an insight into their own practice in relation to the interdisciplinary cooperation. 

Prerequisites

None (completion of Interactive storytelling 1 is recommended).

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Discussion and practical demonstrations, individual consultations 

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

To gain the credit, following terms are defined: active attendance in classes (2 absences allowed – more absences must be compensated in the form of alternative assignments, according to the agreement with the lecturer), and working out of individual task assigned in the second half of the course. 

Course curriculum

Semester-long practical collective exercises, group discussions, individual consultations, field trip. 

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The course aims at developing the ability to improvise and think creatively when creating an original work, an intervention or the ability to reflect on a situation. The main principles of the course are often used in videogames, gallery installation, music composition, contemporary dance, physical theatre or clownship. The aim is to transform these principles in order that they could be used in the field of students‘ interests, in the process of ideas formation, or in common social space, to be involved into its dynamics, without necessary emphasis on the obvious physical activity. The base of this transformation lies in individual and collective dispositions of male and female students. Another aim of the course is to enable access to author's work ideological conditions distinguishing, and influence of the space. Students can use this kind of experience in forming of specific tools and methods in their own artistic output. 

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

Classes will be held in the classrooms of the Department of Art Theory and History, at the Faculty of Fine Arts of BUT (Brno University of Technology), according to the schedule, and also individually as agreed with the lecturer. Minimum attendance 85%. Missed lessons will be compensated in the form of alternative assignments, according to the agreement with the lecturer. 

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

BRAKE, Mark. CHASE, Jon. Harry Potter a věda: Čarovná věda na pozadí kouzel, podivných předmětů, lektvarů a mnohého dalšího. MatfyzPress, 2019, ISBN: 978-80-7378-398-3
DELILLO, Don. White Noise. Penguin Books, 2009, 9780143105985,
LATOUR, Bruno, Nikdy sme neboli moderní, Kalligram, 2003, ISBN: 8071495956
LEPECKI, André, Choreography as Aparatus of Capture. The Drama Review, Volume 51, Number 2 (T 194), Summer 2007, pp.119-123 (Article)
LEPECKI, André, Of the Presence of the Body: Essays on dance and Performance Theory. Wesleyan University Press, 2004, ISBN: 0819566128
LOW, Setha M. Embodied Space(s): Anthropological Theories of Body, Space, and Culture. 2003, Space and Culture 6(1):9-18 DOI: 10.1177/1206331202238959
RUSINOVÁ, Zora. KRALOVIČ, Ján. Serialita a repetícia ako tvorivé princípy integrovaného umeleckého diela, Katedra teórie a dejín umenia VŠVU Bratislava, 2017, 978-80-8189-015-4
SPÅNGBERG, Mårten, Post-dance, an Advocacy. In Spanbergianism, MDT, 2017, ISBN: 978-91-983891-0-4
VYSKOČIL, Ivan, Dialogické jednání s vnitřním partnerem. Janáčkova akademie múzických umění (JAMU), 2005, ISBN: 80-86928-02-0

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme VUB Bachelor's

    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-D , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-D , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-D , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-D , 4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-D , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-D , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-D , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-D , 4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-D , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-D , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-D , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-D , 4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 4 year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Creative seminar

24 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

MgA. Tomáš Moravanský