Courses offered to exchange students

Winter / First Semester 2024/2025

code                name of the course teacher                               completion (non-letter grade – credit only / exam) number of ECTS credits short description
1-SESW Studio – Exchange Students – winter (students can select only one studio) tutors of a specific studio exam (A–F) 15 See the faculty's website for short characteristics of the studios here https://www.favu.vut.cz/en/studios.
APFB-W Advanced Photography for Beginners – winter Vít Baloun exam (A–F) 4 Students will master the process of selecting photographic methods and tools. The course focuses on photographic techniques and the balance between the technological background and the real use of the camera. The course is not focused on browsing through menus on digital cameras.
4AA2000-1 Art After 2000 1 Jan Zálešák exam (A-F) 4 The aim of the course is to introduce students to the topics, tendencies and approaches that have had a significant place in contemporary art over the last quarter of a century. Knowledge of current art practice and themes that have resonated in major exhibition institutions should help students to critically articulate their own position and creative direction. Students will gain an overview of the changes in the institutional structure of the art world over the last 25 years. They will become familiar with the major figures and institutions associated with the social and educational turn in the arts. They will be aware of the importance of the interest in archives and memory in contemporary art over the last 20 years and will be aware of the specific position of art from the former Eastern Bloc countries in the context of the “historiographical turn”.
TAIF The Art of Interpreting Film 1 Barbora Lungová exam (A-F) 4 Students will be encouraged to improve their analytical and critical skills on the material of mostly european film classics from the 1950s - 1070s. Students should understand better the visual aspects of film - camera work, editing, the narrative subject vs the spectator, the open or hidden ideology behind the film, etc. Students will improve their language and communication skills.
By studying theoretical articles about films they will be aware of the variety of interpretaion tools and strategies. Students will widen their horizons in a discipline which is not customarily taught at a fine art faculty. The course will cultivate students' critical and analytical abilities. Students will be trained to understand the essential points of academic texts, but will at the same time learn to coherently voice their opinions and interpretations of a particular film/text in written form. During the semester, students will write several short tests checking their reading progress.
2ACT Artists and Curators in Texts Barbora Lungová exam (A–F) 4 Students will read and discuss selected texts by curators and artists reflecting the art scene; the first part of the course will deal with texts by historical avant-garde vs. conservative trends; the second part will focus on the reflections by curators and artists on the institutional and political pressures that determine the undertataking of artistic projects.
SCR-W Screenprinting for Exchange Students – winter Beáta Kateřina Spáčilová exam (A–F) 4 Patterns and stencils. Methods of print, possibilities of making patterns. Possibilities of use.
2AUDITE Introduction to Sound Jiří Suchánek non-letter grade (PASS/FAIL) 3 Introduction to Sound is an introductory course for working with sound that provides master's level students with an introduction to both studio work and music production. The course focuses on orientation to audio studio equipment (microphones, preamps, compressors, virtual synthesizers, samplers, effects processors, DAW software). The course teaches participants professional procedures for recording, editing, and mixing recordings; as well as working with microphones, recording chain, and DAW audio editing programs. The course will offer an introduction to the basics of music production and mixing.
4CALC Contemporary Art in Local Contexts Barbora Šedivá non-letter grade (PASS/FAIL) 3 The course takes form of sessions with invited speakers, visits to art events, and field trips to museums and galleries. Students learn about how art institutions operate and examine structures that sustain them. Students familiarize themselves with life at the faculty and get acquainted with the art scene in Brno and beyond. The aim of the course is to introduce students to the local art networks and encourage their participation in them.
4RTA-1 Research Through Art and Design 1 Lenka Veselá non-letter grade (PASS/FAIL) 3 The course consists of lectures followed by seminars. Lectures familiarize students with the historical roots, institutionalization, and current developments of artistic research. In seminars, students engage in a discussion about the production of knowledge in the field of art and about the new avenues that artistic research opens up in this respect. Students develop their ability to recognize and describe research aspects of their work and to articulate research contribution of their artistic practice.
2FQI Feminist (and) Queer Issues in Art, Film, and Beyond (1970–1990s) Barbora Lungová non-letter grade (PASS/FAIL) 3 The material that has been chosen for the course focuses on the older period of feminism and queer visuality – 1980s and 1990s – and looks at two different sections. Within feminist (and queer feminist) art discourse, it focuses on issues of representation or the lack thereof in the curatorial strategies of dominant art institutions and curatorial narratives, on the issue of the erotic sovereignty of representation in the polemic against the critique of the objectification and sexualization of women's and queer bodies, or on the issue of activist approaches in art (and the risk of their historicization and inclusion in major art institutions and narratives). In the second section of the course, students will be introduced to some of the seminal film works made by queer artists, whether in the 1990s or at the turn of the millennium as part of the so-called New Queer Cinema movement, or older works made in the 1970s by, for example, John Waters or Ulrike Ottinger.
FEMS1 Feminist Seminar 1 Lenka Veselá non-letter grade (PASS/FAIL) 3 The lecture and seminar series will introduce feminism as a plurality of views and topics related to the issues of emancipation of women and social justice.
FOE Future of Everything Dragana Zarevska non-letter grade (PASS/FAIL) 3 The course is designed as a general playful exercise in speculative ("what if") thinking combining concepts from speculative design, ecological thought and radical landscapes of the future – on the border of fiction and social reality. Speculative thinking is all about the future, so we are especially going to focus on the human and post-human in the future, the future of work, as well as the possible relations between the human and the non-human labor forces in an approaching post-anthropocene landscape. It is expected that the participation in this course will strengthen students' ability to work with selected theoretical texts and visual materials. The course will also include a lecture by an invited guest from the field of speculative design. The students should be able to reflect on the topic in the form of discussions, essays, or their own creative projects.
PR1-Z Videogram / Projections 1 Filip Cenek / Ján Solčáni non-letter grade (PASS/FAIL) 2 The reason for these cinema projections is a common experience of perceiving the selected films by the creators who (in the right time) occupied the bordering zones of nobody, thus causing interesting collisions in the field of established modes of perception. These two-hour projections will not be limited by any genre or techniques (they can be absolute films, videographic essays, trans films, etc.) which will help to understand the connections between the film with moving pictures in general and other kinds of art. We will show films reflecting areas of fine arts, experimental films, cult films, as well as “misty pictures”.

Summer / Second Semester 2024/2025

code                name of the course teacher                               completion (non-letter grade – credit only / exam) number of ECTS credits short description
  Studio (students can select only one studio)   exam (A–F) 15 See the faculty's website for short characteristics of the studios here https://www.favu.vut.cz/en/studios.
3DMDG 3D Modeling for Digital Games Vojtěch Vaněk non-letter grade (PASS/FAIL) 3 The course focuses on selected elements of advanced 3D modelling in the context of digital games. Part of the course is a basic introduction to the making and optimization of textures, application of materials and retopology (high poly vs. low poly) of 3D models. Students will learn to work with software 3D Studio Max, Z-Brush, TopoGun, Substance painter, and Adobe Photoshop.
4AA2000-2 Art After 2000 2 Jan Zálešák exam (A-F) 4 The content of the course, which is a follow-up of the eponymic course from the winter semester, is contemporary art practice. Since it is not yet possible to take a sufficient distance from contemporary art practice to talk about "art history", the course does not aim to create a timeless canon. What matters in the selection of themes is their current relevance. The content of the summer semester focuses specifically on tendencies in contemporary art and themes that emerged during the second decade of our century.
4IMCP Installation as a Medium of Creative Practice Marie Štindlová non-letter grade (PASS/FAIL) 3 The topic of installation is approached from different angles in this course. The focus will be on the development of independent creative practice of the students. Through an internship in one of the partner galleries, the students will learn about the technical aspects, possibilities and limits of exhibiting. The course will include at least two field trips to relevant exhibitions (Vienna, Ostrava, Prague...). Significant space will be devoted to discussions on related topics such as working with space, working with light, handling pre-existing artefacts in an installation, site-specific installations, the use of technology in an installation, etc.
4PAM Plant, animal, mineral: plants and other natural entities in contemporary art Barbora Lungová non-letter grade (PASS/FAIL) 3 Students will reflect working with biological material in visual art in theoretical texts and their own artistic practice. The course will provide lectures on aesthetic, etic, and philosophical perception of nature, ecosystems, and landscape and its formation by human activities; we will look at different concepts of wildness and wilderness, at different approaches understanding urban wilderness, community allotment gardening, and to appreciating plants and other non-human entities through the prism of contemporary posthumanist philosophy as it is reflected in contemporary art. Students will be able to consult their work with specialists from The Silva Tarouca Research Institute for Landscape and Ornamental Gardening (vegetation ecology, landscape infrastructure), or with practicing professionals (ornamental gardening). Students’ practical outcome of this course - a materialized or carefully planned artwork – will be the result of these theoretical and practical intersections.
APFB-S Advanced Photography for Beginners – summer Vít Baloun exam (A–F) 4 Students will master the process of selecting photographic methods and tools. The course focuses on photographic techniques and the balance between the technological background and the real use of the camera. The course is not focused on browsing through menus on digital cameras.
BDV Basics of Digital Video for Exchange Students Tomáš Hrůza non-letter grade (PASS/FAIL) 3 A practically oriented course dealing with the computer processing of video recordings and emphasizing the development of compositional and creative abilities of students. In the course, the individual approach and well as the the teacher´s help with the solution of students´ particular problems in the area of digital video are preferred.
ATP3 Applied Technology of Painting 3 Břetislav Malý non-letter grade (PASS/FAIL) 3 The course will focus on the possibilities of applied research in the field of painting materials. Students will get acquainted with adequate technologies and basics of measuring procedures. Attention will be focused on the analysis of pigments and other materials that occur in paints. The measurement techniques used will be spectrometry (measurement of remission and transmission characteristics of materials using a spectral photometer) and refractometry (measurement of the refractive index of light of solid and translucent materials). Furthermore, paints and materials will be analysed using microscopy and PH measurements.
CNC CNC Machining / Robots in Artistic Practice Dušan Váňa non-letter grade (PASS/FAIL) 3 The course offers an introduction to how industrial robots can be utilised in artistic practice – in sculpture and object making. The course introduces students to 3D machining and its possibilities. Following topics are to be touched upon: work safety in a robotic workplace, robot programming, 3D model preparation for machining, model import into Autodesk PowerMill, NC path generation, simulation and modification robot movement, preparation of the robot for work, selection and preparation of material for machining, practical exercises in 3D machining.
SCR-S Screenprinting for Exchange Students – summer Beáta Kateřina Spáčilová exam (A–F) 4 Patterns and stencils. Methods of print, possibilities of making patterns. Possibilities of use.
FQCCA Race, Modern Art and Design Ladislav Jackson exam (A–F) 4 The aim of the course is to present and discuss the methodological perspectives of ethnic and cultural minority art and the creation of the canon of modern / contemporary art / architecture, while introducing key figures, movements, places, exhibitions and texts that represented the emancipation of ethnic and cultural minorities in visual art / design.
FEMS2 Feminist Seminar 2 Lenka Veselá non-letter grade (PASS/FAIL) 3 Lecture and seminar series Feminist seminar 2 follows the pluralist notion of feminism introduced in Feminist seminar 1 and presents further topics concerning the emancipation of women and social justice issues.
SODM Sound Design and Mastering Jiří Suchánek non-letter grade (PASS/FAIL) 3 The course of advanced work with sound is focused on two specific areas of studio work: sound design and mastering. Within the sound design, the student gets acquainted in detail with the general principles and practical possibilities of synthesizing and editing sound using digital and analog processes. Sound design will be realized in Kyma X, Max/msp environments and also with using freeware and VST instruments and analog hardware synthesizers. Mastering lessons will focus on development of critical listening and understanding of audio recordings finalization and overal technical standards. The practical exercises will be realized in software domain in combination with a fully professional analog mastering chain.
PR1-L Videogram/Projections 2 Ján Solčáni / Filip Cenek non-letter grade (PASS/FAIL) 2 The reason for these cinema projections is a common experience of perceiving the selected films by the creators who (in the right time) occupied the bordering zones of nobody, thus causing interesting collisions in the field of established modes of perception. These two-hour projections will not be limited by any genre or techniques (they can be absolute films, videographic essays, trans films, etc.) which will help to understand the connections between the film with moving pictures in general and other kinds of art. We will show films reflecting areas of fine arts, experimental films, cult films, as well as “misty pictures”.
4WSh-2 Workshop 2 Jan Zálešák non-letter grade (PASS/FAIL) 3 In the Workshop 2, students learn about the practice of an important contemporary artist/designer, participate in activities prepared by the artist/designer, and discuss the challenges of pursuing a career in contemporary art/design. The purpose of the workshop is to create awareness about what constitutes excellence in contemporary art/design and to motivate students` pursuit of it.
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