Course: Studio 7

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Course title Studio 7
Course code KVU/NM7
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 17
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Merta Vladimír, Doc. akademický malíř
Course content
1st Entering topic, familiarization with the course of the semester. 2nd Seminar Project work on an assigned topic from the field of space - a collective discussion. 3rd The main theme - currently based on the current events in society. 4th Making the concept work - from design to actual implementation in the material. 5th Lectures (not only from the area of space). 6th Current exhibitions - a collective analysis. 7th Lectures guest artists greatly influencing contemporary art. 8th Collective evaluation of individual steps of the project (a collective discussion). 9th Processing written in the context of the defense. 10th Continuous entry, filling and submitting individual tasks as required by seminary teacher. 11th - 12 Continuous editing, consulting and project implementation semester. 13th Presentations.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture supplemented with a discussion, Lecture with a video analysis, Lecture with practical applications, Multimedia supported teaching, One-to-One tutorial, Skills demonstration, Task-based study method, Individual study, Practicum
  • Presentation preparation (report) (1-10) - 10 hours per semester
  • Undergraduate study programme term essay (20-40) - 40 hours per semester
  • Contact hours - 208 hours per semester
  • Individual project (40) - 40 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 60 hours per semester
  • Practical training (number of hours) - 85 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
to recall the advanced techniques of traditional and new digital art disciplines mostly object, sculture, design and instalation and new technologies in digital art to reproduce the names and definitions of the common building elements of the visual language with accent on space and concept, to know their forms and possible combinations, to bring together basic knowledge of supporting arts disciplines, mostly object and context design, semantic effects of signs ant their infulence on society, and to use those knowledge in artistic expression in convential and unconvential way, on technological perservation of permanent and temporary works of art, to compare the results achieved on the given field of creation (both own and foreign),to describe own comparison and draw consequences from it, to use those consequences in own future work, to apply knowledge about basic illustratorial, sculptor and designer morphology when designing the assigned task common knowledge of possibilities of working with concepts and meanings, with visual metaphors and their effects based on social and historical contexts
Skills
to make drawing and painting sketch of own compositional proposals on a given and own topic, to work with several possible alternations in their possible conceptual conceptions and their possible presentations with examples of specific places and their situations, to be able to work with common techniques and technologies of conceptual and spacial art, to make a research for a given topic, to explain basic problematics of given topic and present it to the professional and general society in adequate structurated way, to flexibly react to evaluating comments of a techer, collegues or viewers, to select appropriate proposals on the basis of criteria, and work with their alterations and contexts based on requirements of purpose of the work to realize the final artifact (spatial installation, painting, statue, design) with effort to find own individual style of expressioning and to perserve it on digital or analog level, to plan own project and divide it into particular steps to install your work into a exposure based on character of expositure space and purpose of the work, to find other ways to present and interact with own work and to anticipate the result of this interaction and its effects on viewers, to work with the space like with individual work of art
Competences
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learning outcomes
Knowledge
about project planning individually and in a atelier team based on given and own asignment (conceptual analysis of the given topic, sketching, modeling, bozzetta) including research and analysis of given topic and space, and its connecting to interactive and multimedia approaches, about production techniques and technologies of manual, concept and digital creation, of basic materials usable for creative expression in surface and space, about options of using those methods and materials in untraditional way even of cooperating disciplines (graphical and industrial design, film and advertising production, intermedia,...), about technologies usable for perserving of the work of temporary character, on how to adjust and expose the work, about historical and contemporary style canons used in different genres of art, architecture and public space and their translations into other cultural contexts, about other different particular topics which can be developed in forms of spacial design, public space or conceptual solutions, about common semantic meanings of signs, their transfered meaning as visual metaphor, and their options to use with work with concepts about common vocabulary of object and concept design, about basic terminology of creating a sculture, object and instalation, about overlap of those disciplines into other even non-visual media and social sciences, about basic terminology of cencept art and authors working with them and formed them, about social problem they are reflexting
Skills
to plan and realizes a spacial project of artwork with an efford to untradicional and original solutions and experiment on level of both realization and concept, to divide own work into several steps and to design their alterations based on a character of used materials and purpose of the work, to take into account in the production of the techniques and technology used, to be able to use common scale of artistic techniques and to use them even in unconventional way to effectivelly express own imagination, to be able to use basic methods for multimedial and interactive overlop, to experiment and knowingly anticipate results of those experiments on different levels, to independently look for suitable art solutions, compare different solutions and chooses between different alterations based on reactions of viewers and the teacher, to willingly exand his or her technological vocabulary, , designates, characterizes and distinguishes between the relationship between the object, design, sculpture and installation, including their overlop to other cultural and social contexts, to work with professional terminology of conceptual art and options of working with meaning and its possible diversity, besides practical realizations, to solve tasks in a conceptual way, thus classifying his or her own verbal sklils and verifying comunicational effects of own presentation on various samples of society to reflects his work in historical and contemporary contexts, is aware of those contexts and is able to use them to reflect its work in the context of professional, technical and technological processes, to be able to use other tools, mostly digital and computer quided and other of different artistic and technological disciplines, with erudition, presents his work to the professional community and general society, to be able to accept and assert in a way the evaluation and critical response, is able of own basic reflection of own and others work and to further work with those innitiatives, to be able of critical evaluation of visual stimuls on professional level, to be able to use exposition space not only for showing own work, but to consider the space as a whole and thus as individual specific work of art, to experiment with space and its particualar parts to verify own expressive possibilities
Competences
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teaching methods
Knowledge
Students' portfolio
One-to-One tutorial
Seminar classes
Skills
Skills demonstration
Students' portfolio
Competences
Discussion
assessment methods
Knowledge
Seminar work
Continuous assessment
Skills
Skills demonstration during practicum
Project
Practical exam
Competences
Seminar work
Recommended literature
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  • Bělohradský, Václav. Společnost nevolnosti : Eseje z pozdější doby. 3. vyd. Praha : Sociologické nakladatelství, 2014. ISBN 978-80-7419-167-1.
  • COLLINS, M. Design und Postmoderne.
  • CSERES, Jozef. Hudobné simulakrá.. Bratislava: Hudobné centrum, 2001. ISBN 80-88884-30-6.
  • Dick Higgins. A dialectic of centuries: Notes towards a theory of the new arts. Printed Editions, 1978. ISBN 0914162349.
  • Dick Higgins. Horizons: The Poetics and Theory of the Intermedia. Southern Illinois University Press, 1983. ISBN 0809311429.
  • Dick Higgins. Modernism Since Postmodernism: Essays on Intermedia. San Diego State University Press, 1997. ISBN 1879691434.
  • Dvořák, Tomáš. Kapitoly z dějin a teorie médií. Vyd. 1. Praha : Akademie výtvarných umění v Praze, Vědecko-výzkumné pracoviště, 2010. ISBN 978-80-87108-16-1.
  • Flusser, Vilém. Za filosofii fotografie. 1. vyd. Praha : Hynek, 1994. ISBN 80-85906-04-X.
  • Grebeníčková, Růžena. Tělo a tělesnost v novověkém myšlení. Praha : Prostor, 1997. ISBN 80-85190-65-6.
  • GRILLO, P. J. Form function & design.
  • Humhal, Pavel. Osobní a veřejné. Vyd. 1. Praha : Tranzit, 2008. ISBN 978-80-87259-00-9.
  • Manovich, L. Principy nových médií In Teorie vědy/Theory of Science. 2002.
  • Osborne, Peter. Conceptual art. London : Phaidon, 2002. ISBN 0-7148-3930-2.
  • Rezek, P. Tělo, věc a skutečnost v současném umění. Jazzpetit, Praha, 1982.
  • Thomasová, K. Dejiny výtvarných štýlov 20. stor.. Pallas, Bratislava, 1994.


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