Across Media 10 – Cliché vere and related wet plate techniques

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
307DAMPT credit 6 100 workshop hours (45 min) of instruction per semester, 75 to 105 hours of self-study English summer

Subject guarantor

Štěpánka ŠIMLOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s)

Veronika DRAHOTOVÁ, Evgenii SMIRNOV, Štěpánka ŠIMLOVÁ

Department

The subject provides Department of Photography

Contents

The course aims to combine contemporary media of expression in visual art with classical photography techniques and the wet process. It encourages students to experiment with the use and transfer of photographic images based on examples, their own research, and practical exercises. Emphasis is placed on conceptual preparation and developing the fun-damentals acquired in darkroom work and the chemical basics of the process.

The proposed schedule is based on the following structure and educational goals:

  1. February. Developing an Idea and intense sketching
  2. March. Approaching Materials, learning tools, and methods by creating specific parts of the objects and tackling specific problems
  3. April to May. Execution—creation of the object

•The participants interpret the topic |KOLUMBARIUM|

•Kolumbarium – cemetery of compresed ideas

•Timecapsule

•What we want to be remembered

•What we want to burry

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Materials we want to try:

A. Liquid photographic emulsion + (optional) Cyanotype emulsion

B. Image transfers and emulsion lifts

C. Substrates:

•Concrete

•Paper

•Plexiglass (Pet-G, heat transformed)

•XPS

•Wood / Plywood

•Found Objects

•Found ceramics etc…

•Expanding FOAM

Date and time:

Each Tuesday from 2:00 pm till 5:30 pm (or how is need by the technology)

Places are set in the schedule below

(TR 303, Lazan 111, Darkroom in Lazan, Skautský institute Kampa, Štěpánka Šimlová Studio)

Students would be announced in the FCB group Across Media - https://www.facebook.com/groups/269306592231503

Learning outcomes

Expanding creative approaches and procedures in the field of experimental photography, connecting with other reproduction procedures, expanding visual expression and finding new ways to use photography

Prerequisites and other requirements

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Literature

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Evaluation methods and criteria

active presents during lessons

individual working on the given tasks

development and processing the authors project

participation on the mutual exhibition

Note

Schedule:

10-02

•Presentation of the course, previous results, continuation of work

•(Eugene) A quick intro to the materials to be used and an overview on the “photo-graphic objects/sculpture in contemporary art”

oAuthors Letha Wilson https://www.lethaprojects.com/

oRyan Forester https://www.instagram.com/zoltog99/

Rachel de Joode https://racheldejoode.com/

oNerhol https://www.yutakakikutakegallery.com/artists/nerhol/

oetc…

•Presentation of the topic|KOLUMBARIUM| / visuals / inspiration / mindmap / talk

•Maybe, they should talk in small groups (3 people) and quickly brainstorm the idea?

17-02

•Presentation on using emulsions

•A possible task for the meeting is to come up with an idea / an initial sketch / printed visual references

•Intense sketching (what if we ask them to sketch at least 3-5 ideas, and possibly we make some mini models with prints, and paper, and cardboard)

•Choosing materials to buy

24-02

•Finishing sketches, drawings, mini-prototypes

•We plan actions and materials

•Visiting UMPRUM museum

3-03

• Drawings, testing the coating, test in the darkroom

10-03

•Drawings, testing the coating, test in the darkroom

•From 4 p.m. Studio visit Erika Bornová – sharing the experiences esp. by working with the polystyrene and also drawing

17-03

Drawings on the material, continuation in testing the coating, test in the darkroom

From 4 p.m. – Studio visit – gliding – working with the gold plates

24-03

•Basic training in the choissen material

31-03

•Work on choissen material

02-04

•Testing the eggs – Eastern topic – different techniques of wax

•Possibly cyanotype on eggs

07-04

Working according to the spliting groups and according to choisyen materiál (darkro-om, workshop in Skautský institut

14-04

•Glass engraving workshop with Kamil Faifer in Tržiště

21-04

•The schedule would be set during end of March according to the progress and speci-fics of the material

28-04

•The schedule would be set during end of March according to the progress and speci-fics of the material

05-05

The schedule would be set during end of March according to the progress and specifics of the materials.

Start to preparation of the exhibition

It might make sense to split the group into small subgroups and allocate time slots for each task, and use different locations.

The big group is difficult to manage, given that we will have just one tool of each type for work.

Locations:

Lazan

•XPS cutting

•Emulsion coating and precoating

•Work with prints and papers

Trziste

•Sprays and precoats (everything smelly that we cannot use at Lazan)

Darkrooms

Rybarna Dilny

https://www.skautskyinstitut.cz/vytvarna-dilna

https://www.skautskyinstitut.cz/kutilska-dilna

•Cutting

•Wooden and xps molds / wood work / sewing etc

•Plexiglass / Glass work

Stepanka’s Atelier

•Presentations

•Sketching

•Painting

Further information

No schedule has been prepared for this course

The subject is a part of the following study plans