Studio of Imaginative Photography 9

Display Schedule

Subject guarantor

Rudolf PREKOP

Name of lecturer(s)

Rudolf PREKOP, Nina ŠPERANDA

Department

The subject provides Department of Photography

Contents

The imaginative photography studio works across the spectrum of genres and expressions. It is a synthesis of visual and conceptual thinking, artistic, documentary, multimedia or other approaches. The boundaries between different types of communication are programmatically nullified here - this is in order to accentuate the message itself.

The Imaginative Studio creates a creative space for students working across the photographic spectrum. Here, knowledge of the photographic craft creates a solid base for the extension of autonomous pictorial self-expression.

The keywords of the Imaginative Photography Studio are:

• Authenticity
• Individuality
• Personality
• Synthesis

Main themes

1 - 2/ assigning a theme for the studio exercise, specifying the programme (studio visits, exhibitions, inviting guests, additional modules and workshops

3/ collaborative discussion of the topic - results of own research as directed by the studio leader

4 - 6/ individual and joint consultation of exhibition projects - conceptual proposals, conception, consultation of the process

7-8/ additional studio activities according to the assignment from the beginning of the semester

9 - 10/ individual and joint consultation of projects in process, reflection, critical analysis, discussion, inspirational suggestions

11/ realization of the exhibition project and book - proofreading of the final form, ways of solving technical difficulties

12/ post-production, printing, adjustment, test installation

Learning outcomes

After completing the course, the student gains comprehensive knowledge and experience in the creation of author exhibition projects and author books. The student is also able to reflect on his/her work in a written exposition, which prepares him/her for the defence of the final thesis. The ability to reflect and respond to an assigned topic is practiced in a semester-long exercise that is rotated regularly. The students' individual presentation skills as well as working in a team are trained. The authenticity of the author's approach underpins everything.

Emphasis is placed on the thinking background, sensibility and authentic individual creative attitude of each listener.

Prerequisites and other requirements

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Literature

Required:

Alberro, Alexander, Sabeth Buchmann: Art After Conceptual Art, MIT Press,

Cambridge and London, 2006

Fried Michael: Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before, Yale University

Press, New Haven 2008

Bourriaud, Nicolas: Relational Aesthetics, Dijon: Les presses du réel, 2002

Cotton Charlotte: The Photography as Contemporary Art, London, Thames

Hudson, 2004

Wells, Liz: The Photography Cultures Reader: Representation, Agency and Identity, London: Routledge, 2019

Recommended:

Aranda, Julieta; Wood, Brian Kuan; Vidokle, Anton (ed.): E-flux journal, What is Contemporary Art?, Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2010

Kuc, Kamila; Zylinska, Joanna (ed.): Photomediations: A Reader, 2016

Statzer, Mary (ed.): The Photographic Object 1970, Oakland: University of California Press, 2016

Dekker, Annet: Curating digital art: From presenting and collecting digital art to networked co-curation, Amsterdam: Valiz, 2021

Evaluation methods and criteria

Completion of a studio exercise on a given topic, realization of an exhibition project, photographic, graphic and typographic work on author's books and zines.

Developing a general knowledge of art history and photography and contemporary visual art theory, developing analytical reflex skills.

Note

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Schedule for winter semester 2025/2026:

• Week view
• List

Schedule for summer semester 2025/2026:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans

• Photography EN - Master - 2022 (Required elective subjects)
• Photography EN - Master - 2022 (Required elective subjects)