Intermedia Creation and Technology 1

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Subject guarantor

Robert SMOLÍK

Name of lecturer(s)

Robert SMOLÍK

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The ITT course aim is an introduction to practice with audiovisuals in the contemporary scene of new media, film, performance, and sound arts. One aspect is the manner of collaboration in a team and conceptualization and production of interdisciplinary projects.

Mode of study

Lectures, discussion, student independent work under the supervision of the instructor.

1. 60 min. Lecture according to the syllabus above.
2. 30 min. Discussion on student team project topics.
3. 15 min. Break.
4. 90 min. Independent work under the supervision of the project consultants (experiments, tests regarding the projects).

The project contents are that through electronic and audiovisual/multimedia tools to react to/develop the previously given topic.

Prerequisites and co-requisites

Teamwork skills, interest in contemporary culture and technology.

Course contents

The ITT creativity workshop is focused on an introduction to the process, conceptualization, technical handling and implementation of multimeidia installations and performances - „stage“ performance of an audiovisual work, from technical and aesthetic aspects.Contemporary artwork, kinetic, multimedia, and interactive objects, installations or performances often require non-standard technical handling, joining the use of mechanical, electronic, optical, acoustic and other systems. The IIM creative workshop introduces the context in which those concepts and implementations are generated and we will search for the optimal technical and artistic treatments according to the the ideas and focus of the individual workshop participants. Fundamental to this is to judge the functionability and feasibility of the proposed treatment, clearly and distinctly articulate one's project, assemble its description, visualization and presentation, discuss its origin and processes, To learn to estimate investment and time necessary for implementation, to find suppliers of necessary parts and specialists for consultation and implementation. The workshop focuses, primarily, on creative use of a wide spectrum of devices and expression tools which may be used in the IIM lab spaces. Parts of the workshop can be individual and team concepts and model handlings of intermedia projects, discussions on the used scale of the sample devices, their linking, image formats (slides, video, film), experimental use of projection surfaces (objects, colors, textures), various sources of lighting (artificial, natural) of various models of arranging multiprojection, development and working with multichannel sound, and possibly linking interactivity to the installation, or performance form.

Parts of the course are:

1. An outline overview of the history and issues of multi-media installations and audio-visual performance.
2. Basic terminology, categories, or some important works and figures.
3. Lectures and presentations by FAMU guest lecturers.

FAMU coordinators: Miloš Vojtěchovský. DAMU: Robert Smolík.

Recommended or required reading

See: http://www.iim.cz

Assessment methods and criteria

Activity, assessment of completed project.

Note

The course is part of the electives for all of AMU.

Instruction schedule see: www DAMU / katedra ALD / Rozvrhy hodin

Schedule for winter semester 2018/2019:

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Schedule for summer semester 2018/2019:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans

• Directing and Dramaturgy for Alternative and Puppet Theatre (B.A.) (optional subject)
• Stage Design for Alternative and Puppet Theatre (B.A.) (optional subject)
• Stage Design for Alternative and Puppet Theatre (M.A.) (optional subject)