IM047 A-V seminar: New Media Art I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2010
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Martin Flašar, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Bc. Jitka Leflíková
Timetable
Wed 13:20–14:55 J22
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 150 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/150, only registered: 0/150, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/150
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Students will be acknowledges with typical or distinct works of new media art. In first semester we will focus on art production retrospectively understood as predecessors of new media art, with special focus on 20 century.
Syllabus
  • Autumn semester
  • Theme: Archeology of media: man-machine concept in a first half of the 20century.
  • 06.10. Metropolis (F. Lang, 1927)
  • 13.10. Modern Times (Ch. Chaplin, 1936)
  • 20.10. Man with Movie camera (D. Vertov, 1929)
  • Theme: Predecesors of new media art, art avant-garde.
  • 27.10. Futurusts and sound – Marinetti’s sound collages.
  • 03.11. The Last Machine (document about beginnings of film), Experimental film: DADA cinema
  • 10.11. J. Cage – series Imaginary Landscapes
  • 17.11.
  • Theme: Phenomemon of Expo
  • 24.11. Edgard Varèse - Le Corbusier - Iannis Xenakis: Poème électronique (Expo, 1958). The Legendary multimedia installation in Philips pavilion.
  • 01.12. Laterna Magika (Expo 1958, document)
  • 08.12. Kinoautomat (R. Činčera, DVD)
  • 15.12.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Artists as inventors - inventors as artists. Edited by Dieter Daniels - Barbara U. Schmidt. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2008, 237 s. ISBN 9783775721530. info
  • JANEČEK, Václav and Štěpán KUBIŠTA. Laterna magika, or, "A theatre of miracles". Translated by Olga Brzorádová-Němečková - Daniel Macek. Praha: Art studio, 2006, 379 s. ISBN 809037381X. info
  • The art of Bill Viola. Edited by Bill Viola - Chris Townsend. 1st pub. London: Thames & Hudson, 2004, 223 s. ISBN 0500284725. info
  • XENAKIS, Iannis. Formalized music :thought and mathematics in composition. Edited by Sharon Kanach. Rev. ed. Stuyvesant, N.Y.: Pendragon Press, 1992, xiv, 387 s. ISBN 0-945193-24-6. info
Teaching methods
AV projection, seminar, reading.
Assessment methods
Essay on chosen topic (min. 5 pages/9000 signs + list of bibliographical notes and title page). The theme of the essay can be chosen from topics related to the presented documents and films.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021.
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