Course: Studio 11

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Course title Studio 11
Course code KVU/SO11
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Master
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
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Tolar Benedikt, Doc. MgA.
Course content
Weeks 1 - 13 - Information about the course, assigning the theme of semester project (KP): developing both theoretical and practical aspects of own project according to students' own specifications. - Consideration of proposals for students' projects, specifying literature and other sources, agreeing on themes of the projects, approval of the Head of the studio with starting the work on the project designed by the student. - Continuous realization of the project - theoretical part (content of the project, consultations ...). - Continuous implementation of the project - practical part (in accordance with the theoretical assignment) - mandatory ongoing consultations, ongoing corrections required. - Individual consultations, both theoretical and practical illustrative examples of the themes of individual students. - Continuous input, corrections and submission of all the tasks as directed by the teacher, regular consultations, - Submission of final version of the theoretical and practical parts of KP by the deadline specified by the teacher. - Presentation.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Collaborative instruction, Project-based instruction, Instruction based on dialogue, Multimedia supported teaching, Students' portfolio, One-to-One tutorial, Skills demonstration, Task-based study method, Individual study, Seminar
  • Graduate study programme term essay (40-50) - 50 hours per semester
  • Individual project (40) - 100 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 65 hours per semester
  • Presentation preparation (report) (1-10) - 20 hours per semester
  • Contact hours - 208 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
to recall knowledge about a wider range of conceptual and experimental expressive and visual tools of sculpture and spacial creation, about their possible reciprocal compositional relationships and their use for public creation of different forms and for their relation to cultural contexts, to recall and apply knowledge about technical and technological procedures of supporting disciplines, about the finishing of the sculptural work surfaces, or fixation of the installation, knowledge about usage and function of other disciplines on a level of educated estimation of their real possibilities for own practice, to interpret own knowlidge about historical and contemporary style canons and and options of sculpture and spacial artefacts, their possible conections and boundaries, to use the suitable ways of mechanism of communication with the client to determine his/her requirements, to critically assess his/her own work in a discipline context, to plan a project in the production team dealing with complex audiovizual projects, about ways to justify and defend your own design activity in relation to other members of the production team, to reproduce knowledge about the techniques of spatial and sculptural creation, about how to adjust and expose the work, about the possibilities of full involvement in the implementation team of more complex architectural public space assignments,
Skills
to apply basic knowledge about diverse sculpture working procedures suitble for creation of sculpture, object or instalation, to use wilder variety of alternative, symbolic or experimental visual and expressive tools, to be able to combine and alter them, to plan a complex project of medial illustration and to suggest its different forms, individually and as a manager of a team of various artistic and supportive professions during realization of interactive projects of different forms, to apply a wide array of ways of construction of action, including non-traditional practices, to reflect its work in the context of professional, technical and technological processes, to submit his proposal and selection to the contracting authority and justify it in the respect to the task and his/her requirements, to critically assess his/her own work in the field context and style framework, to verify the finishing of the sculptural work surfaces, or fixation of the installation and ensure full project presentation and promotion, with erudition, to present his work to the professional community, to be able to accept and assert in a way the evaluation and critical response, to explain and defend his/her choice from other members of the production team, to be able to accept and assert in a way the evaluation and critical response
Competences
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learning outcomes
Knowledge
about possibilities of inspiration and creation initiated by own innovative intention and a generally assigned task, about ways to evaluate and justify the social desirability of the project, about searching own tasks and problems solving by choosing aproaches aiming to individual and original conception, about suitable means of communication between contemporary civilization and art implementations of a project about planning a complex and technically difficult sculpture project for public usage on professional level, about planing and managing work and specialized procedures including present appropriate documentation of the course of the implementation and the final outcome, about the contemporary style canons used in the sculpture and all his forms and their translations, about the possibilities and limits of involvement in interdisciplinary cooperation on spacial projects in more difficult complexes, about a wide array of technological and technical procedures for sculpture in all its width, and their creative crossing, about their possible reciprocal relationships and their usage in conventional and experimental way, of ways to compare the demands on technical possibilities and possible ways of implementation craft-wise and technology-wise, about traditional and experimental materials and their combinations in terms of aesthetics and function,
Skills
to individually plan and realise more complex projectfor public usage on professional level including drawing designs of higher noticeable value for elaborating considering specifics based on the nature of the graphic technique and its overlap to other spacial and artistic forms and their combinations, to critically assess his/her own work in the field context and style framework, to work with several varied alternatives and variations, to choose most suitable design based on specific requirements of each project, proposes and analyzes the specific creative themes of the projects and modifies them according to wider cultural circumstances, to be able to apply their creative potential and design wide range of valuable implementations of sculpture, to select the most suitable variant of the final graphic project and create complex design documentation, choose the appropriate technology for producing the final product, to choose appropriate documentation of the course of the implementation and the final outcome in the form of a photography catalog, 3D animation (or film documentary), and to secure the full presentation and promotion of the project, to analyze practical applications, lead a discussion over the task analysis, to make effort to find various solutions to given problem, to maintain originality of own design and to own advancement aiming to distinctie artistic and handicraft expression, to search for artistic answers for contemporary artistic and social questions, to be able to accept and assert in a way the evaluation and critical response, to reflect own work in the context of professional, technical and technological processes, to flexibly alter own work on the basis of continuous reflection, which is able to effectivelly formulate, to reflect his work in historical and contemporary contexts and to be aware of potencial of those contexts for own original expression and inspirational sources which work with this reality, with erudition, to present his work to the professional community and thus use advanced presentation principles, to practically apply conceptual artistic thinking, to assesses the interaction with the role of spectator and the aspect of motives and the forms of elaborating them, to experiment with a role of a spectator,
Competences
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Recommended literature
  • Harlas, Fr. X. Sochařství, Stavitelství. Praha: Bursík & Kohout, 1911.
  • Hlaváček, Josef. Jiří Beránek: Přítmí paměti. Praha, 1998. ISBN 80-86087-12-3.
  • Rezek, Petr; Fialová, Eva. K teorii plastičnosti. Vyd. 1. Praha : Triáda, 2004. ISBN 80-86138-53-4.


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