Contemporary Photography and Art 2
| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
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| 307ECON2 | exam | 4 | 2 lecture hours (45 min) of instruction per week, 82 to 102 hours of self-study | English |
Subject guarantor
Name of lecturer(s)
Josef LEDVINA, Noemi PURKRÁBKOVÁ, Michal ŠIMŮNEK
Department
The subject provides Department of Photography
Contents
9. 2. (Josef Ledvina)
DEEPFAKE!!!: From Epistemic Vigilance to Paranoia
McKenzie-McHarg, Andrew. “Experts versus eyewitnesses. Or, how did conspiracy theories come to rely on images?”. Word & image. 35, no. 2 (2019): 141-158.
16. 2. (Noemi Purkrábková)
“Invisible” and “Invisual” Images: The Post-perceptual Regimes of Visual Media
Jussi Parikka. What is not an Image?. In Operational Images: From the Visual to the Invisual, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 2023, 57–94.
Suggested reading:
MacKenzie, Adrian, Munster, Anna. Platform Seeing: Image Ensembles and Their Invisualities, Theory, Culture & Society (2019), Vol. 36, Issue 5
Shane Denson. Dividuated Images, Coils of the Serpent 5 (2020), 153–62. Dostupné online: https://shanedenson.com/articles/Denson_Dividuated-Images.pdf
Trevor Paglen. Invisible Images: Your Pictures Are Looking at You. Architectural Design 89(1), 2019, 22–27
23. 2. (Josef Ledvina)
The Politics and Aesthetics of Obsolescence: Analog Photography in the Digital Age
Iversen, Margaret. “Analogue: On Zoe Leonard and Tacita Dean”. In Photography, Trace, and Trauma. University of Chicago Press, 2019.
2. 3. (Noemi Purkrábková)
Irony vs. Sincerity: Postmodern Surfaces, the Metamodern Pendulum, Post-irony and Emotionality in Contemporary Art
Vermeulen, Timotheus. “The New Depthiness”, E-flux journal, 2015, accessible at: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/61/61000/the-new-depthiness/
Suggest Reading:
– Vermeulen, Timotheus and Van den Akker, Robin, Gibbons, Alison (eds.). Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, Depth After Postmodernism, Rowman & Littlefield, 2017
– Jameson, Frederic. Postmodernism, or, the cultural logic of late capitalism, Duke University Press, 1991
– Hutcheon, Linda. Politics of Postmodernism, Routledge, 1989
9. 3. (Josef Ledvina)
Order, Form, Pattern / Randomness, Formlessness, Chaos
Bois, Yve-Alain, and Rosalind Krauss. Formless: A User's Guide. Zone Books, 1997. (zejména úvodní kapitola The Use Value of "Formless”, s. 13-40)
16. 3. X - regeneration week
23.3. (Noemi Purkrábková)
More-than-human art? Posthumanist and Post-anthropocentric Tendencies in Contemporary Art Practice
N. Katherine Hayles. Nonconscious Cognitions: Humans and Others. In Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press 2017, 10–40.
Suggested reading:
Joanna Zylinska. Ne-lidská fotografie. Praha: Karolinum 2023.
Seghal, Melanie, Wilkie, Alex (eds.), More-than-Human Aesthetics. Venturing Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature, Bristol University Press, 2024
Haraway, Donna J. Staying with the Trouble. Making Kin in the Chthulucene, Duke University Press, 2016
30. 3. (Josef Ledvina)
Legacy of the Avant-Garde: the Question of Autonomy and Instrumentality of the Work of Art
Bürger, Peter. Theory of the Avant-Garde. Translated by Michael Shaw. Manchester University Press, 1984.
(especially chapter On the Problem of the Autonomy of Art in Bourgeois Society, pp. 35-54)
6. 4. X - velikonoční pondělí
13. 4. (Noemi Purkrábková)
Contemporary Art and the Future: The Ends of Future, Accelerationism and New Futurisms
Ana Teixeira Pinto: Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years? Some Notes on Futurism, Futurity and Truancy, in: Bruyn, Eric, Lütticken, Sven (eds.). Futurity Report. Sternberg Press, 2020, 269–282
( Bonus: Glicktesin, Adina. Nick Land November, Spike Art, 2025, accessible at: https://spikeartmagazine.com/articles/user-error-nick-land-november )
Suggested reading:
– Berardi, Franco. After the Future, AK Press, 2009
– Fisher, Mark. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?. John Hunt, 2022
– Hameed, Ayesha, Gunkel, Henriette, and O’Sullivan, Simon (eds.). Futures and Fictions, Repeater, 2017
– Mackey, Robin, Avanessian, Armen (eds.). The Accelerationist Reader, Urbanomic, Merve, 2014
20. 4. (Josef Ledvina)
Art and the Anthropocene: the Case of Plastics
Kane, Carolyn L. “Plastic Shine: From Prosaic Miracle to Retrograde Sublime”. E-flux Journal 65, May, 2015. https://www.e-flux.com/journal/65/336456/plastic-shine-from-prosaic-miracle-to-retrograde-sublime/.
27. 4. – Essay topic consultation
Learning outcomes
The student is oriented in contemporary art, understands contemporary theories of art and photography, is able to think about photography in the context of current discussions about technical images and is able to reflect on some of the topics discussed in his/her own creative work.
Prerequisites and other requirements
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Evaluation methods and criteria
To complete the course, students must submit two written assignments: one short paper (1 SP) midway through the semester, and a longer final paper (5–10 SP) at the end. One standard page (SP) is equivalent to 1,800 characters including spaces. This is followed by an oral exam consisting of a discussion of the two submitted texts.
For the shorter written assignment (due on 5 April), students will prepare their own Artist's Statement.
The final seminar paper (due on 25 May) should relate directly to the topic of the student's future Bachelor's thesis. Relevant academic sources and literature must be used, and the paper must be formatted according to the standards of a bachelor's thesis. Students must consult one of the instructors about the topic of their paper before writing it.
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Schedule for winter semester 2025/2026:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
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| Date | Day | Time | Tutor | Location | Notes | No. of paralel |
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| Mon | 11:30–13:05 | Josef LEDVINA | Tržiště -st. intermedia Tržiště 20, Praha 1 (vchod z Rektorátu AMU, Malostranské nám. 12) |
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The subject is a part of the following study plans
- Photography EN - Bachelor - 2022 (Required subjects)