Course detail
Audiovisual Technologies Workshop 2
FaVU-2WAT2Acad. year: 2024/2025
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
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Participation in the workshop is compulsory.
Aims
Graduates of the workshop will enrich their technical skills and deepen their knowledge of audiovisual technologies.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Helena BENDOVÁ – Matěj STRNAD (eds.), Společenské vědy a audiovize, Praha: NAMU 2014.
Lev MANOVICH, Jazyk nových médií, Praha: Karolinum 2018
Recommended reading
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, summer semester, elective
1 year of study, summer semester, elective
1 year of study, summer semester, elective
1 year of study, summer semester, elective
1 year of study, summer semester, elective
1 year of study, summer semester, elective
1 year of study, summer semester, elective
1 year of study, summer semester, elective
1 year of study, summer semester, elective
1 year of study, summer semester, elective
1 year of study, summer semester, elective
1 year of study, summer semester, elective
Type of course unit
Creative seminar
Teacher / Lecturer
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.