Course detail

Traditional Media Workshop 1

FaVU-2WTM1Acad. year: 2024/2025

The workshop will provide students with the opportunity to become familiar with a detailed selection of techniques and materials from a wide range of traditional media (painting, printmaking, sculpture) 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 technology of their 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

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

1

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. MgA. Milan Houser

Department

Department of Traditional Media (KTM)

Entry knowledge

None.  

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Credits awarded based on participation in the workshop.   
Participation in the workshop is compulsory.  

Aims

The aim is to enable students to become familiar with specific techniques or materials from the broad category of traditional media under the guidance of a specialist in the field. 

 

 

Graduates of the workshop will enrich their technical skills and deepen their knowledge of traditional media materials.  

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Hal FOSTER – Rosalind KRAUSSOVÁ – Yve-Alain BOIS – Benjamin H. D. BUCHLOH, Umění po roce 1900. Modernismus, antimodernismus, postmodernismus, Praha: Slovart 2007

Recommended reading

Anna LOVATT (ed.), Vitamin D3. Today’s Best in Contemporary Drawing, Londýn: Phaidon 2022
Barry SCHWABSKY (ed.), Vitamin P2. New Perspectives in Painting, Londýn: Phaidon 2011
Barry SCHWABSKY (ed.), Vitamin P3. New Perspectives in Painting, Londýn: Phaidon 2011
Emma DEXTER, Vitamin D. New Perspectives in Drawing, Londýn: Phaidon 2005
Marina CASHDAN – Carina KRAUSE – Colin PERRY (eds.), Vitamin D2. New Perspectives in Drawing, Londýn: Phaidon 2013
Patricia LEAVY (ed.), Handbook of Arts-Based Research, New York: Guilford Press 2019
Wouter DAVIDTS – Kim PAICE (eds.), The Fall of the Studio. Artists at Work, Amsterdam: Valiz 2009
Yuval ETGAR (ed.), Vitamin C+. Collage in Contemporary Art, Londýn: Phaidon 2023

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme VUM_M Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    1 year of study, winter semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Creative seminar

20 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. MgA. Milan Houser

Syllabus

  • A lecture by an invited artist /designer, in which they introduce students to the use of a specific technique, tool or material in their artistic practice  

  • Practical exercises in the use of the technique or material, 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.