Contemporary Photography and Arts 2

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Kód Zakončení Kredity Rozsah Jazyk výuky Semestr
307EFU2 zkouška 4 2 hodiny výuky týdně (45 minut), 79 až 99 hodin domácí příprava anglicky letní

Garant předmětu

Tomáš DVOŘÁK

Jméno vyučujícího (jména vyučujících)

Josef LEDVINA, Tereza STEJSKALOVÁ

Obsah

(12/02) Cute Pictures in Gallery and on Social Media

Simon May: The Power of Cute, Princeton University Press 2019.

(19/02) Our Microbial Friends? / Anthropomorphism, Nonhuman Agents and Limits of Empathy

Jakob Johann von Uexküll: Preface (From: A Stroll Through the Worlds of Animals and Men [1934]), In: Donald Favareau (ed.) Essential Readings in Biosemiotics – Anthology and Commentary, Springer Netherlands 2009, s. 90-114.

(26/02) Presentations

(04/03) DEEPFAKE!!!: From Epistemic Vigilance to Paranoia

Andrew McKenzie-McHarg: Experts versus eyewitnesses. Or, how did conspiracy theories come to rely on images?, Word & image. 35(2):141-158, 2019

(11/03) “Game of Identities”: Self Portrait, Profile Picture and an “Authentic Creative Expression”

Amelia Jones: The 'Eternal Return': Self-Portrait Photography as a Technology of Embodiment, Signs, Vol. 27, No. 4 (Summer, 2002), pp. 947-978.

(18/03) Presentations

(25/03) The Re-Enchantment of the World: Contexts of Magic in Contemporary Art (Noemi Purkrábková)

Isabelle Stengers: Reclaiming Animism, e-flux journal #36, červenec 2012, dostupné online: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/36/61245/reclaiming-animism/

(01/04) No lecture – Easter

(08/04) “Invisible Images”: More-than-Human Temporality and Post-Perceptual Regime of Digital Media (Noemi Purkrábková)

Shane Denson: Dividuated Images, Coils of the Serpent 5 (2020), s. 153-62, dostupné online: https://shanedenson.com/articles/Denson_Dividuated-Images.pdf

(15/04) Presentations (Noemi Purkrábková)

(22/04) Environmental Crisis, Neoruralism and Possibilities of “Contemporary Landscape Photography”

Henri Lefebvre: Perspectives on Rural Sociology, in: Myvillages (ed.), The Rural, The MIT Press 2019, s. 22-26.

(29/04) “The Power of the Good Joke” / Art as a Joke and Joke as Art

Louis Kaplan: Photography and Humour, London: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2017.

Výsledky učení

Seznámení se současnými tendencemi ve fotografii. Analýza těchto tendencí.

Předpoklady a další požadavky

Simon May: The Power of Cute, Princeton University Press 2019.

Jakob Johann von Uexküll: Preface (From: A Stroll Through the Worlds of Animals and Men [1934]), In: Donald Favareau (ed.) Essential Readings in Biosemiotics – Anthology and Commentary, Springer Netherlands 2009, s. 90-114.Andrew McKenzie-McHarg: Experts versus eyewitnesses. Or, how did conspiracy theories come to rely on images?, Word & image. 35(2):141-158, 2019.

Amelia Jones: The 'Eternal Return': Self-Portrait Photography as a Technology of Embodiment, Signs, Vol. 27, No. 4 (Summer, 2002), pp. 947-978.

Isabelle Stengers: Reclaiming Animism, e-flux journal #36, červenec 2012, dostupné online: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/36/61245/reclaiming-animism/

Shane Denson: Dividuated Images, Coils of the Serpent 5 (2020), s. 153-62, dostupné online: https://shanedenson.com/articles/Denson_Dividuated-Images.pdf

Henri Lefebvre: Perspectives on Rural Sociology, in: Myvillages (ed.), The Rural, The MIT Press 2019, s. 22-26.

Louis Kaplan: Photography and Humour, London: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2017.

Literatura

viz obsah kurzu

Hodnoticí metody a kritéria

Course Requirements:

  1. Active participation in discussion (prepare 2-3 questions for discussion).
  2. written paper

min. length: 7000 characters including spaces

Select a topic/problem that is of interest to you (preferably one discussed during the seminar). Argue your own position regarding the problem and use other sources to support your argument (use them to build up your argument or argue with them in case they support a different position). Please submit your paper by email to: pledvina@gmail.com.

The final oral exam: discussion over your submitted paper.

Poznámka

On alternate year for 2. and 3. class

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