Introduction to World Video-art

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Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The course aim is to acquaint students with the works of world video-art and experimental film which have become the foundation of the canon of so called art of the moving image. Emphasis will be place on screening works in their entirety, brief contextualizations and subsequent discussion on the works presented.

Mode of study:

Lecture with video samples, analysis and group discussions.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

No requirements.

Recommended optional programme components:

No elective requirements.

Course contents:

4. Oct.

Introduction to the topic: outline of assignments and methods

11. Oct.

Andy Warhol

Blow Job, 1964, 36 min.

Screen Tests, 1964 - 1966, shot, every 6 min.

Empire, 1964 (ukázka)

18. Oct.

No class/lecture

25. Oct

Wolf Vostell, Sun in Your Head, 1963, 7 min.

Nam June Paik, Merce by Merce by Paik, 1978, 28 min.

Nam June Paik, Beatles Electroniques, 1967, 6 min.

1. Nov

Steina and Woody Vasulka

Calligrams, 1970, 4 min.

Interface, 1970, 4 min.

C-Trend, 1974, 7 min.

Noisefields, 1974, 7 min.

Reminiscence, 1974, 5 min

Switch!, Monitor! Drift!, 1976, 4 min.

Art of Memory, 1987, 36 min.

8. Nov

Vito Acconci, Undertone, 1972, 10 min.

Vito Acconci, The Red Tapes, 1976, 58 min

Peter Campus, Double Vision, 1971, 15 min.

Three Transitions, 1973, 15 min.

15. Nov

Bruce Nauman, Stamping in the Studio, 1968, 6 min

Dan Graham, Performer, Audience, Mirror, 1975, 23 min.

Terry Fox, The Childrens Tapes, 1974, 30 min.

22. Nov

Polish experimental film of the 1970s.

Józef Robakowski, The Market, 1970, 4 min.

Józef Robakowski, A Test, 1971, 2 min.

Pawel Kwiek, 1,2,3, Operators Excercise, 8 min.

Ryszard Wasko, Window, 1972, 8 min.

Ryszard Wasko, A-B-C-D-E-F ? 1-36, 1974, 6 min

29. Nov

Joan Jonas, Vertical Roll, 1972, 20 min.

Hermine Freed, Art Herstory, 1974, 15 min.

6. Dec

Michael Snow, Wavelenght, 1966, 45 min.

Hollis Frampton, Nostalgia, 1971, 38 min.

6. Dec

Bill Viola, Sweet Light, 1977, 10 min.

Gary Hill, Soundings, 1979, 18 min.

13. Dec

Pipilotti Rist, I'm Not The Girl Who Misses Much, 1986, 6 min.

Pipilotti Rist, Ever is Over All, 1997, 6 min.

Pipilotti Rist, Aujourd´Hui, 1996, 10 min

Eia-Liisa Ahtilla,

20. Dec

Peter Fischli a David Weiss

La Moindre Resistance, 1981, 29 min.

Der Lauf Der Dinge, 1987, 30 min

Recommended or required reading:

Recommended:

Michael Rush, Video Art, Thames and Hudson, London 2003

40 Jahrevideokunst.de, Hatje Cantz, 2006

Edit Andras (ed.), Transitland, Video Art from Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2009, Ludwig Museum, Budapest 2009

Tanya Leighton (ed.), Art and the Moving Image, Tate a Afterall, London 2008

Chris Meigh-Andrews, A History of Video Art, Berg, Oxford a New York, 2006

Michael Faulkner (ed.), audio-visual art + vj culture, Laurence King, 2006

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