IMK47 The New Media Art Canon. The Best of New Media Art I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2018
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Martina Ivičič (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Bc. Jitka Leflíková
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Fri 21. 9. 11:00–12:40 G24, Fri 26. 10. 11:00–12:40 G24, Fri 23. 11. 11:00–12:40 G24, Fri 7. 12. 11:00–12:40 G24
Prerequisites
At the end of the semester students will be able * to formulate their own apprehension in the reflexion on media art. * to recognize the influences which affected these media art works * to analyze particular works of media artist according to their position in media art history * to evaluate the contribution of the key works from the history to the development of media art.
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 100 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/100, only registered: 0/100, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/100
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This seminar introduces to students the typical and distinct works of 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
  • New media archaeology: The HUMAN-MACHINE concept in the first part of 20.century Media art forerunners: Futurists and sound, French avant-garde, experimental film of ´60, Dada cinema, Fluxus Films John Cage: the character and the artwork Pioneers of videoart: Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell, Woody and Steina Vasulka The Expo phenomenon: Varése, Le Corbusier, Xenakis: Poéme électronique Media and performance.Multimédia: Rauschenberg, Xenakis Zdeněk Pěšánek: Světlo proníká tmou, 1930 Czech and Slovak contemporary videoart. Video and intermedia
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
  • TRIBE, Mark and Reena JANA. New media art. Edited by Uta Grosenick. Köln: Taschen, 2006, 95 s. ISBN 3822830410. info
  • RUSNÁKOVÁ, Katarína. V toku pohyblivých obrazov : antológia textov o elektronickom a digitálnom umení v kontexte vizuálnej kultúry. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Vysoká škola výtvarných umení, 2005, 193 s. ISBN 8088675979. info
Teaching methods
AV projection, seminar, individual reading.
Assessment methods
Final work consists of two components: The first is audio or video / audio or audiovisual presentation (1-5 minutes) The second is the accompanying theoretical concept / abstract of this work (max 1 A4) Assignment: Use any approaches and strategies and re-create older works from the history of new media art. Place the old work in the current context and give it new meaning. Respond current technological capabilities to avant-garde practices, ideas, strategies. Current prosumer is able to create his own story in response to what he just saw. The aim of this final work of audio-visual seminar is the ability of students to express themself not only by theoretical text, but also by their own audio-visual production. AV seminar is only to highlight the key works of new media archeology closely linked to the major concepts and the emergence of new artistic approaches. Availability of recording media, open source software, freeware for editing digital recording enables students to express themself in a more creative way. The aim is to encourage students to actively search tools for processing and manipulating available data.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 8 hodin výuka, 8 hodin konzultace.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2010, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021.
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