Home made media archeologies

Tutor:

Miloš VOJTĚCHOVSKÝ

Synopsis:

Instructor: Verena Kuni (www.kuniver.se), coordinator Miloš Vojtěchovský (milos.vojtechovsky@famu.cz), Martin Blažíček (martin@blazicek.net)

Assignment: 1 credit for 100% participation and written essay 1-2 pages, please email to milos.vojtechovsky@famu.cz

Annotation: in english - http://cas.famu.cz/openeye

Date and time:

Thursday 25. 2. 2010 14:00-18:00, FAMU, Room CAS 423

Friday 26. 2. 2010 12:45-18:00, FAMU, Room CAS 423

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Study Objectives:

Outline and Syllabus:

Verena Kuni

(Haunted Media) HOME MADE MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGIES, FROM A TO D AND BACK AGAIN.

Living with instable media means to live with loss. For many reasons, even major preservation projects can't hinder data (be them digital or not) and matter from decay ? not to mention those media and apparatuses that are abandoned or actively taken out of service over the time. But what if we feel the need to keep or regain something that's best-before date has passed?

The FAMU lecture and workshop will explore creative ways to deal with the inevitable decay. As a closer look on the field of HOME MADE MEDIA ARCHEOLOGIES can show, what is gained are not only living memories from the past that allow insight in personal as well as collective media histories, but promising perspectives for today's and tomorrow's cultures as well.

Short Bio

Verena Kuni is professor for Visual Culture at Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main (DE). She publishes widely in international print and online media; since 1997 she runs her own art radio show on radio x ffm. From 1995 to 1999 she was curator for Kasseler Dokumentarfilm & Videofest; since 1999 she is ibid. director of interfiction conference for art, media and network cultures.

Her research, teaching, lectures, projects & publications are devoted to contemporary arts & media cultures, their histories & futures. Current projects focus on D.I.Y. & prosumer cultures; media of imagination - imagination of media; technologies of transformation; philosophical toys;transfers between media & material cultures; and digital decay.

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Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2009/2010:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2009/2010:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
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The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Animovaná tvorba - bakalář (optional subject)
• Dokumentární tvorba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Dokumentární tvorba - bakalář (optional subject)
• Animovaná tvorba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Scenáristika a dramaturgie - bakalář (optional subject)
• Scenáristika a dramaturgie - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Režie - bakalář (optional subject)
• Režie - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Kamera - bakalář (optional subject)
• Kamera - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Produkce - bakalář (optional subject)
• Produkce - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Audiovizuální studia - bakalář (optional subject)
• Střihová skladba - bakalář (optional subject)
• Střihová skladba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Zvuková tvorba - bakalář (optional subject)
• Zvuková tvorba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Fotografie CZ - bakalář (optional subject)
• Fotografie CZ - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Fotografie EN - bakalář (optional subject)
• Fotografie EN - magistr (optional subject)
• Audiovizuální studia - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Cinema and Digital Media - Cinematography (qualification subject, optional subject)
• Cinema and Digital Media - Screenwriting (qualification subject, optional subject)
• Fotografie CZ - magistr: restaurování (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Cinema and Digital Media - Directing (qualification subject, optional subject)
• Fotografie EN - magistr: restaurování (optional subject)