Course detail

Videogram 2

FaVU-PR1-LAcad. year: 2024/2025

Videogram is a series of lectures on contemporary forms of art, artistic and curatorial practices, and theory. Through online lectures and discussions, it introduces significant figures in contemporary art who often shape narratives and content outside the traditional canon of Western modernism.

The series features interviews and lectures with artists, art collectives, theorists, and curators (such as ruangrupa, Slavs and Tatars, Nyege Nyege, Rossella Biscotti, the Institute of Postnatural Studies, etc.). By presenting these voices, the course aims to offer new perspectives on everyday social realities and to cultivate sensitivity and awareness towards knowledge and practices that are typically found on the periphery of mainstream discourse. The course includes an extensive online archive that provides free access to recordings of lectures and discussions, as well as secondary resources, available at https://videogram.favu.vut.cz.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. MgA. Filip Cenek

Department

Department of Audiovisual Technology (KAT)

Offered to foreign students

Of all faculties

Entry knowledge

None.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

The course is taught 5 times per semester, online, and in English. Lectures take place every Wednesday at 7:00 PM and last approximately 2 hours. The complete course schedule, along with links to individual lectures, is freely available in the course’s online archive at https://videogram.favu.vut.cz.

Assessment: A credit will be awarded based on the submission of a 2-page (3600 characters including spaces) commentary in English on a topic covered in the lectures during the semester. Attendance at lectures is mandatory (70% attendance required), and feedback in the form of participation in discussions is expected.

Aims

The aim of the course is to understand contemporary artistic practices and theories from various perspectives and to foster a more nuanced appreciation of alternative artistic expressions and knowledge systems.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Sitney, P. Adams: Une histoire du cinéma. Museé national d'art moderne (FR)

Recommended reading

Bellour, Raymond & Bandy, Mary Lea (eds.): Godard. Son+Image 1974–1991. New York (EN)
Bennett J (2010) Vibrant matter: A political ecology of things. Durham: Duke University Press. (EN)
Biserna E (2022) Going Out – Walking, Listening, Soundmaking. Dijon: Les presses du réel. (EN)
Bresson, Robert: Poznámky o kinematografu. Dauphin, Praha (CS)
Epstein, Jean: Poetika obrazů. Herrmann a synové, Praha (CS)
Gallagher M, Kanngieser A and Prior J (2017) Listening geographies: Landscape, affect and geotechnologies. Progress in Human Geography, 41/5: 618-637. (EN)
Haraway D (1988) Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective. Feminist Studies, 14/3: 575-599. (EN)
Haraway D (2016) Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Durham: Duke University Press. (EN)
Ingold T (2000) The perception of the environment: Essays on livelihood, dwelling and skill. London–New York: Rutledge. (EN)
Manovich, Lev: The Language of New Media. MIT Press (EN)
Morton T (2013) Realist Magic Objects, Ontology, Causality. London: Open Humanities Press. (EN)
Oliveros P (2005) Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice. Bloomington: iUniverse. (EN)
Petříček, Miroslav: Myšlení obrazem. Úvody FAMU, Praha (CS)
Reiser, Martin & Zapp, Andrea (eds.): New Screen Media: Cinema/Art/Narrative. London (EN)
Sitney, P. Adams: Visionary Film. Oxfor University Press, New York (EN)
Ulver, Stanislav: Západní filmová avantgarda. ČFÚ, Praha (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme VUM_B Bachelor's 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    4 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme VUM_M Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    2 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme DES_B Bachelor's 3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
  • Programme DES_M Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme FAAD Master's 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
  • Programme DES_B Bachelor's 3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
  • Programme DES_M Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    1 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme VUM_B Bachelor's 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    4 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme VUM_M Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    2 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme ZST-BX Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme ZST-NX Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme VUM_B Bachelor's 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    4 year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Seminar

10 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. Ján Solčáni

Syllabus

The course is taught 5 times per semester, online, and in English. Lectures take place every Wednesday at 7:00 PM and last approximately 2 hours. The complete course schedule, along with links to individual lectures, is freely available in the course’s online archive at https://videogram.favu.vut.cz.