Course detail

Studio Follow-up I - Photography - summer

FaVU-M1FO-LAcad. year: 2022/2023

Semestrial work - work with the Archive and Appropriation
Major work - exhibition series for the semester exam.
+ Spontaneous exercises (tasks will be given during the learning process, intended for all students except those who are fully dedicated to their own work)

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. MgA. Ivars Gravlejs, Ph.D.

Department

Photography Studio (AFO)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Greater knowledge in the field of photography and in contemporary art. Critical thinking.
Artistic research.

Prerequisites

Open communication. Creativity and greater experience with the medium of photography in the context of contemporary art. Conceptual thinking. Ability to realize the personal MA program.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Výuka na základě potřeb studentů a sebevyjádření. Presentations, lectures, individual consultations and discussions, reading. Team building activities.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Exam.

Course curriculum

Students will develop the ability to reflect on their own work in a broader context. Apart from the mandatory studio meetings, consultations, analysis of students' major projects and semestrial work (archive and appropriation), students should try the work as a curator and explore opportunities to present their art works. Students must find the consultants for the master thesis.
Topic of semestrial work might change during the process.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Analysis, presentation and contextualization of students' own work or found material.

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

Not applicable.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Bourdieu, Pierre, Photography: A Middle-brow Art, trans. Shaun Whiteside Cambridge: Polity Press, paperback ed., 1996 (EN)
Bourriaud, Nicolas: Postprodukce, tranzit.cz, 2004 (CS)
Císař Karel: Co je to fotografie? Herrmann & synové, Praha, 2004 (CS)
Cotton, Charlotte: The Photograph as Contemporary Art, Thames & Hudson, New York, 2004 (EN)
Fontcuberta, Joan ed.: Photography. Crisis of history, Actar, Barcelona, 2002 (EN)
Fontcuberta, Joan: Pandora's Camera. Mack, London, 2014 (EN)
Fried, Michael: Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2008 (EN)
Frizot, Michael: New History of Photography. Kolín nad Rýnem: Könemann, 1998 (EN)
Groys, Boris: Art Power. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008 (EN)
Groys, Boris: On the New. London and New York: Verso, 2014 (EN)
Laruelle, François: Koncept ne-fotografie, Fotograf 07, 2012 (CS)
Paul Wood & Charles Harrison ed.: Art in Theory 1900 - 2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas, United Kingdom, 2003 (EN)
Philips, Lisa: The American Century: Art & Culture 1950 – 2000, New York, 2000 (EN)
Rosenblum, Naomi: A World History of Photography, New York, 1989 (EN)
Warner Marien, Mary: Photography: A Cultural History, Laurence King Publishing, London, 2002 (EN)

Type of course unit

Lecture

39 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. Tomáš Javůrek, Ph.D.
doc. MgA. Ivars Gravlejs, Ph.D.

Seminar

195 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. MgA. Ivars Gravlejs, Ph.D.