Woody Vasulka - Mystery of Memory

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Subject guarantor:

Kryštof PEŠEK, Miloš VOJTĚCHOVSKÝ

Name of lecturer(s):

Kryštof PEŠEK, Miloš VOJTĚCHOVSKÝ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

This module offers an introduction to hte works of an important internationally known artists in examples of his works and from an arts theory perspective and technical parameters.

Mode of study:

excursion and conference

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

An excursion to Brno requiring a payment of 200kc travel costs. Entrance to the exhibition and conference is free.

Course contents:

A conference prepared for the Woody Vašulka exhibition at the Brno City Museum. Instructors from the Interactive Media Dept. of MU, and exhibition curators from the Performance studion at FaVU VUBR, Jennifer Helia DeFelice and Tomáš Ruller will take part in the conference. Vašulka has lived and worked in New York since the 60s where he was celebrated as a founder of the legendary center of alternative media culture, The Kitchen. Aside from the typical and well-known works, the Mystery of Memory exhibition at the Špilberk castle focuses on Vašulka's key works from the 60s up to the present. The focal point of the exhibition is one of Vašulka's interactive multimedia installations from the monumental work „Brotherhood“. Vašulka's piece will be presented in various contexts at the conference, for example, issues in restoration and updating his older works from the perspective of so called media archeology. Vašulka's works have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, the InterCommunication Center in Tokyo and the Zentrum fuer Kunst und medientchnologie in Karlsruhe. The Brno City Museum exhibit has been organized in cooperation with the Institute Vašulka Chamber Reykyavik, under the Island National Gallery, the Center for Audio-visual Studies, FAMU Prague, where Bohuslav Vašulka studied in the 60s, and the Vašulka Kitchen co, Brno.

Recommended or required reading:

Lenka Dolanová Dialog with the demons of devices – Stein and Woody Vasulka

https://www.namu.cz/item.php?item=205

http://www.spilberk.cz/vystava/vasulka-mystery-memory/

http://vasulka.org/

Assessment methods and criteria:

100% attendance on the excursion and at the conference

Course web page:

Note:

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Further information:

This course is an elective for all AMU students

Schedule for winter semester 2016/2017:

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
01.11.2016		08:00–20:00	Kryštof PEŠEK			paralelka 1

Schedule for summer semester 2016/2017:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans: