Course detail
Interactive storytelling 1
FaVU-1INSTAcad. year: 2023/2024
The course takes place in the form of collective discussion and individual consultations over the author's work. Its aim is to develop the ability of improvisation and creative thinking. The main principles of the interactive storytelling 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 students.
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
Number of ECTS credits
Guarantor
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
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 per cent. Missed lessons will be compensated in the form of alternative assignments, according to the agreement with the lecturer.
Aims
The course takes place in the form of collective discussion and individual consultations over the author's work. Its aim is to develop the ability of improvisation and creative thinking. The main principles of the interactive storytelling 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 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.
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.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Recommended reading
ČECH, Viktor. Choreografický moment, Fakulta umění a designu UJEP v Ústí nad Labem, 2019, ISBN: 978-80-7561-147-5
FOUCAULT, Michel, Dohlížet a trestat. Praha: Dauphin. 2000, ISBN: 80-86019-96-9
FULKA, Jozef, Od interpelace k performativu (feminismus a konstrukce rodové identity), Sborník prací Fakulty sociálních studií brněnské univerzity, sociální studia 7, 2002, Katedra antropologie | FF ZČU [online]. Dostupné z: http://www.antropologie.org/sites/default/files/files/studijni-materialy/fulka_performativ_feminismus_cteni_na_mtk_8prosinec.pdf
LEPECKI, André, Choreography as Aparatus of Capture. The Drama Review, Volume 51, Number 2 (T 194), Summer 2007, pp.119-123 (Article)
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
MERLEAU-PONTY, Maurice. FULKA, Jozef. TESKOVÁ, Alena. Založení a podstata, Praha: OIKOYMENH, 2011, ISBN: 978-80-7298-458-9
MERLEAU-PONTY, Maurice. Proměna vnímání a zkušenost pravdy, Praha: OIKOYMENH, 2017, ISBN: 978-80-7298-236-3
MERLEAU-PONTY, Maurice. Viditelné a neviditelné, Praha: OIKOYMENH, 2004, ISBN: 80-7298-098-X
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
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
● Post-dance / lecture
● Discussion about chosen works and texts from the field of contemporary dance and critical theory
● Real space and virtual space/ discussion
● Author‘s production reflection / discussion
● Dialogical acting / group exercise
● Individual consultation / author‘s production reflection through choreographic approaches
● Working out the task according to the assignment