Ateliér Viktora Koláře 4

Garant předmětu:

Viktor KOLÁŘ

Jméno vyučujícího (jména vyučujících):

Viktor KOLÁŘ

Výsledky učení dané vzdělávací složky:

Cílem atelieru výtvarné fotografie je v maximální míře podpořit individuální tvůrčí schopnosti studentů se zaměřením na koncepční práci. Předpokládá se práce v kontextu současného umění bez limitujících faktorů

Forma studia:

Analýza konkrétních cvičení, promítání prací, jež mají souvislost s tématem,

samostatná tvůrčí práce

Předpoklady a další požadavky:

Obecná znalost historie výtvarného umění a fotografie

Obecná znalost teorie současného vizuálního umění

Schopnost analytické reflexe

Kreativní předpoklady

Doporučené volitelné vzdělávací složky:

Nejsou žádné nepovinné složky nutné pro absolvování tohoto předmětu

Obsah kurzu:

1. STUDIO OF STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHY

Supervised by: Mgr. Rudo Prekop

Contact: 737 609 562, rudoprekop@hotmail.com

The Studio includes lectures, seminars, consultations of final exhibition, bachelor, and master series.

Assignments: (assignments 4P1, 5P1)

Part of the Studio is one mandatory assignment for:

3rd year students: FIGURE - ENVIRONMENT - PROPS, collection of 8 and more photos

4th year students: MAN - publication or its mutation, minimum 15 photos.

5th year students: PROBLEM - arbitrary form of execution.

Time schedule: Prior to the beginning of the photographic work, student explains his or her intention to the pedagogue and once agreed on within a mutual dialogue, implements the assignment.

Deadline for submission: by the end of the summer semester - second half of May.

Every year, three personalities from the area of photography, but also graphic design, are invited as lecturers within the Studio, based on the selection of the supervising pedagogue. These workshops are either one or two semesters long and take place in frequency according to the time schedule specified by the given lecturer. The purpose of this arrangement is the time-limited confrontation of students with a wide spectrum of individual personalities, who provide all the participating students with their creative and real-life experience, their opinions, attitudes, and spirit.

2. STUDIO OF DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY

Name of the lecturer: prof. Viktor Kolář

Contact: viktor@viktorkolar.com, phone: 596 126 536

Who is, we may ask, the „documentary photographer“ today, creating convincing personal images? After all he is either the one practicing „empathy“ toward people or merely observing them from afar as a „bystander“. Both ways are equally efficient we may say. Or he/she is the one who understands working within „spiritual“ dimension that becomes the inner part of his/her pictures. Why is public space accessible to all practicing documentary photographers? So they visually communicate their ideas, visions with other segments of society in free manner .

Where does our creativity end and where starts a psychic illness? Why Zykmunt Bauman and his book „Liquid modernity“ does not leave us still and passive? What does ZEN have important to offer us documentary photographers? Aigu? Zen in the Art of Archery? Are manic shyness and desire for anonymity the traits of a street photographer in general? Where does the inspiration come from, what does the altered state of mind have to do with our photography?

Why„Synchronicity“, „interconnectedness“? Is there any connection between the scientific and artistic? Initiation religious and artistic. Problems with „identity“ in today's world. Our openness as a gate to other people of this world. Me and my life with documentary photography.Personal rhythm and looking for one´s voice, photographing as a constant matter of choice. New Document and new naratives.

To obtain class-ticket from finished winter semester the student has to present a work in progress!

List of assignments: /select on from the three/

Theme 1: ?His/her/their? story /documentary project/

Visual narrative about looking for one?s path, a road we usually call a ?road of life?. Discovering such a road and then keep walking on it seems to be more important than anything else. Before we step on such a road we face various problems as for instance: drug culture, participation in extreme political movements, religious sects, etc. next to personal failures, suffering from mental disorders, unemployment, abuse in childhood, homelessness, will make such a search more problematic. Almost each person in my neighbourhood can tell a different story?

The creative outcome: 15-20 bw or color images of cca 24x30cm

Deadline: June

Theme 2: ?Elderly people? /documentary project/

It can be considered as subject of great importance.The number of elderly people is growing, at the same time they feel cut off from the real world around them?many of them stand up to become active /senior age universities etc./We see people who suffer from all kind of dementia/Alzheimer disease!/ and still they try to retain dissent life.There are people around them who are of great help. Trace down how old people around you live and make strong series of photographs

The creative outcome: 15-20 bw or colour pictures 24x30cm

Deadline: June

Theme 3: ?Consumerism as a lifestyle? /documentary project/

Western model of consumerism can be blamed as responsible for defeat of communist ideology and further fall of communism in Czech Republic. The mode of consuming that comes after as a leading factor in shaping people?s lifes today. Purchasing products, using many level services in huge shopping centres as Tesco, Kaufland, Ikea, etc.are leading them to spend more time there. For some people consumption is becoming an obsession with all side effects. It becomes a drug after all and must be medically cured. People buy things they do not need, spend money they did not earn. They also try to buy new identities on the market. Record on your film all possible manifestations of such lifestyle from your point of view.

The creative outcome: 15-20 bw or color images cca 24x30cm

Deadline: June 2

Theme 3: „ Homo Faber“

Produce series of images dealing with work, working people at different positions, tasks. Doing manual work at factories or in the streets. Those working at institutions , social workers, women at work, men at work. Show also people who lost job, those searching for new work. Young people at work or seniors still working. Also show in your photos instruments-tools people are using, clothing meant for work...

The creative outcome: 15-20 photos bw or colour A4.

Deadline June 2014

3. STUDIO OF CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY

Name of the Lecturer: Štěpán Grygar

Contact: 732 661 938, grygar@famu.cz

Course Description:

I give the importance to critical distance from one?s own work that results in its classification within a wider context. The Studio consists of theoretical seminars, consultations of final exhibition, bachelor, and master series.

Assignment: (4P1, 5P1)

Description: This mandatory assignment is practical and students have to submit at least eight photographs. Emphasis is put on the ability to come up with an innovative solution to the given assignment. Conceptual work is recommended. A written explanation must be handed in prior to starting with the assignment.

Assignment: To create a series of at least eight photographs as an individual interpretation of specific theme (not mere illustration). The theme will be announced in the beginning of semester.

Time schedule: WS: Brief, written explanation by the end of November. The series must be in a shape of work in progress by the end of the winter semester.

SS: The final output (eight photographs) has to be submitted by the end of the summer semester.

5. ATELIÉR ŠTĚPÁNKY ŠIMLOVÉ

Výuka v ateliéru je určena zejména pro posluchače, kteří se chtějí zabývat experimentálním pojetím fotografie nebo její medium rozšířit formou instalace, přesahem do pohyblivého obrazu, videa nebo animace. Posluchači pracují na vlastním projektu, který je předem prodiskutován a specifikován. Důraz je kladen především na dlouhodobý vývoj projektu, který je podmíněn pregnantním vyjádřením záměru s reflexí kontextu, hledáním nejvhodnějších forem vyjádření, produkčními schopnostmi a realizací ve výstavním prostoru. Čas na zpracování projektu je jeden školní rok, tzn. 2 semestry. Mimo hlavní projekt posluchači pracují na krátkodobých zadáních, které vyplývají z aktuálních témat v současném kulturním a společenském dění.

Doporučená nebo povinná literatura:

Alberro, Alexander - Norvell, Patricia (ed.): Recording Conceptual Art, Berkeley,

Los Angeles a London: University of California Press, 2001

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

Cambridge and London, 2006

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

Press, New Haven 2008

Bourriaud, Nicolas: Postprodukce, Praha: Tranzit, 2004

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

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

Hudson, 2004

Císař, Karel (ed): Co je to fotografie? Herrmann a synové, Praha 2004

Foster, Hal (ed): Postmodern Culture, London: Pluto Press, 1990

Foster, Hal; Krauss, Rosalind; Bois, Yves-Alain; Buchloh, Benjamin H.D.: Art

since 1900, London: Thames & Hudson, 2004

Michel Frizot: Nouvelle Histoire de la Photographie, Larousse-Bordas, Paris,

1996

Grygar Štěpán, Konceptuální umění a fotografie, Praha, AMU, 2004

Petříček Miroslav: Myšlení obrazem, Herrmann a synové, Praha 2009

Silverio, Robert: Postmoderní fotografie, Praha: AMU, 2007

Liz Wells. The Photography Reader, Routledge, London, 2003

Wall, Jeff: Selected Essays and Interviews, New York: The Museum of Modern

Art, 2007

Plánované vzdělávací činnosti a výukové metody:

seminář, praktické cvičení, přednáška

Hodnoticí metody a kritéria:

Hodnocení:

Klasifikovaný zápočet: udělený na základě odevzdaných cvičení, hodnotí se v jakém rozsahu bylo splněno zadání, nápaditost řešení a kvalita zpracování.

Účast: předpokladem pro hodnocení studenta je min. 60% účast na seminářích a účast na povinných společných konzultacích stanovených při zahájení výuky předmětu.

Webová stránka předmětu:

Poznámka:

Rozvrh na zimní semestr 2013/2014:

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Rozvrh na letní semestr 2013/2014:

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Předmět je součástí následujících studijních plánů:

• Fotografie CZ - bakalář (oborový předmět)