The Edison Effect

Tutor:

Miloš VOJTĚCHOVSKÝ

Synopsis:

Instructor: Paul de Marinis (USA), coordinator Miloš Vojtěchovský

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:

Friday 16. 10. 2009, 12:45-16:00 IIM, Dejvice, Technicka 2

Saturday 17. 10. 2009, 12:45-15:00 konzultace, FAMU, room 436

Prerequisites:

Study Objectives:

Outline and Syllabus:

This workshop is focused on the societal and general cultural context in which current audio-visual arts are found. DeMarinis will present the procedures and inspiration which led them to the particular qualities of their creation and the general background of the media arts.

Bio: Paul DeMarinis, a media-artist and educator, lives in San Francisco, teaches at Stanford University in California. He is one of the most recognized persons in international arts. He has been working with electronic instruments since 1971. He began as a composer, creator of musical instruments and is one of the pioneers of avant-garde electro-acoustic music of the American scene. He is currently involved in an intensive study of the history of technology and lectures on these topics at Stanford University and other schools. He is the creator of a number of performances, sound and computer installations, interactive environments and theory writings. He has had exhibits and performed at The Kitchen, Festival d'Automne in Paris, Het Apollohuis in the Netherlands and Ars Electronica in Linz. He has composed music for the Merce Cunningham Dance Co. Bravin Post Lee Gallery in New York, I.C.C in Tokyo and the Museum of Modern Arts in San Francisco have presented a collection of his works. He has received many honors and scholarships. His creations have been supported by the Guggenheim Endowment, Rockefeller Endowment and DAAD scholarships.

Many of his works cover issues of communication, the syntax of human speach, and computer system transmission and sythesizing. His musical works are distributed by Lovely Music Ltd. and Apollohuis.

His main installations: The Edison Effect (using optic and computers for creating new sounds scanning old phonographic recordings via laser), Gray Matter (interaction of the body and electricity creating music), The Messenger and Firebirds.

Paul DeMarinis devotes his time to theory and critique in the general context of communication media, relationship of democracy to medialized reality.

Photographs and documentation of other installations: http://wwww.stanford.edu/~demarini/exhibitions.htm.

More about The Edison Effect: http://www.stanford.edu/~demarini/edison.html

Study materials:

Note:

Further information:

This course is an elective for all AMU students

Schedule for winter 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
Mon
Tue
Fri
Thu
Fri

Schedule for summer semester 2009/2010:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

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)