The Emergence of Technical Images

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Garant předmětu:

Tomáš DVOŘÁK

Jméno vyučujícího (jména vyučujících):

Tomáš DVOŘÁK

Výsledky učení dané vzdělávací složky:

Students will become familiar with scholarly literature from the fields of theory and history of visual culture and media of the 19th century, they will learn to interpret it critically and apply it within their own research. They will learn to understand the conception and development of photography within its larger cultural, social, and technical contexts.

Forma studia:

Lecture

Předpoklady a další požadavky:

General knowledge of 19th-century photography and visual arts; the ability to read academic literature in English.

Obsah kurzu:

The lecture focuses on the genesis of technical images towards the end of the 18th and in the 19th century, including their aesthetic, epistemological, cultural, social and technical aspects. It will namely deal with laterna magica, camera obscura and camera lucida, the figures of Lichtenberg and Chladni, panoramas and dioramas, optical toys and early animation, instruments of mechanical inscription or lithography. This family of technologies and cultural techniques will provide the background for the analysis of early photographic processes, for questioning the problems of invention, conception and adoption of technologies and the historization of media, especially from the perspective of media archaeology.

Doporučená nebo povinná literatura:

Geoffrey BATCHEN, Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press 1997.

Jonathan CRARY, Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press 1990.

Erkki HUHTAMO ? Jussi PARIKKA (eds.), Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications. Berkeley: University of California Press 2011.

Tanya SHEEHAN ? Andrés Mario ZERVIGÓN (eds.), Photography and Its Origins. London ?New York: Routledge 2015.

Hodnoticí metody a kritéria:

The two main requirements for completing the course are: attendance (you cannot miss more than 2 classes, in serious cases announced in advance, you may compensate for missing more lectures by another ? typically written ? assignment: this needs to be consulted beforehand with the lecturer) and turning in all required assignments (if you fail to submit only one of the presentations, your final grade is F). The sum of the following 4 evaluations constitutes the final grade (100?90% = A, 90?80% = B, 80?70% = C, 70?60% = D, 60?50% = E, 50?0% = F).

40% - active participation in the class (readings of required literature, its discussion in the class)

10% - oral presentation (summary and interpretation of a given text, 10?15 minutes) in the class

10% - written assignment (1?2 pages) in the course of the semester

40% - final paper (5?10 pages) and an exam ? discussion about the paper with the lecturer

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Předmět je součástí následujících studijních plánů:

• Fotografie EN - magistr (oborový předmět)