Course detail

Audiovisual Technologies Workshop 1

FaVU-2WAT1Acad. year: 2023/2024

The workshop will provide students with the opportunity to become familiar with a detailed selection of tools and procedures from a wide range of audiovisual media through a glimpse into the practice of a prominent specialist in the field, to engage in activities prepared by them and to discuss the challenges associated with the technology in the context of professional practice in the contemporary art scene. The aim of the intensive meeting with a personality who is proficient in the given medium at the top level and actively participates in shaping the discourse of contemporary art is to broaden the awareness of technological and material possibilities, which the students can then apply in their own creative practice.  

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

1

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. MgA. Filip Cenek

Department

Department of Audiovisual Technology (KAT)

Entry knowledge

None.  

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Credits awarded based on participation in the workshop.   
Participation in the workshop is compulsory.  

Aims

The aim is to enable students to become familiar with specific tools from the broad category of audiovisual technologies under the guidance of a specialist in the field.  
Graduates of the workshop will enrich their technical skills and deepen their knowledge of audiovisual technologies.  

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Hal FOSTER – Rosalind KRAUSSOVÁ – Yve-Alain BOIS – Benjamin H. D. BUCHLOH, Umění po roce 1900. Modernismus, antimodernismus, postmodernismus, Praha: Slovart 2007
Helena BENDOVÁ – Matěj STRNAD (eds.), Společenské vědy a audiovize, Praha: NAMU 2014.
Lev MANOVICH, Jazyk nových médií, Praha: Karolinum 2018

Recommended reading

Bridle, James, Temné zítřky: Technologie a konec budoucnosti, Brno: Host, 2020.
Císař, Karel, Co je to fotografie?, Praha: Hermann & synové, 2004.
Dvořák, Tomáš (ed.), Epistemologie nových médií, Praha: AMU 2019.
Flusser, Vilém, Za filosofií fotografie, Praha: Fra 2013.
Patricia LEAVY (ed.), Handbook of Arts-Based Research, New York: Guilford Press 2019
T. J. DEMOS (ed.), Vitamin Ph. New Perspectives in Photography, Londýn: Phaidon 2006
Wouter DAVIDTS – Kim PAICE (eds.), The Fall of the Studio. Artists at Work, Amsterdam: Valiz 2009

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme VUM_M Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, elective

  • Programme VUM Master's

    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-D , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Creative seminar

20 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

MgA. Michal Mitro

Syllabus

    • A lecture by an invited artist /designer, in which they introduce students to the use of a specific technology in their artistic practice  

    • Practical exercises in the use of the technology, or another programme of joint activities directed by the invited personality. 

    • Discussion of the challenges associated with working in a given medium and with professional practice in the contemporary art scene in general.