Studio of Photography and New Media 4

Display Schedule

Code	Completion	Credits	Range	Language Instruction	Semester
307AFNM4	ZK	4	28S	Czech	summer

Subject guarantor

Hynek ALT

Name of lecturer(s)

Hynek ALT

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Topics and assignments:

Each semester is defined by a topic which is taken from the composition of the guests, workshops and discussion content. The topic helps, running through the semester, to manintain focus and motivate dialog.

Man and technology, product, utopia, filter bubbles, educational reverse, participative practice, excursions, future work

Each student takes care of their own assignments; define their own interests, original issues, a singular sensitivity is the basis of an artist's work, the group supports the student in these efforts. The key moment in each semester is the realization of the vacuum, the absence of a task, the necessity to search in one's experience or interest one's own problem in which further research becomes the task.

Research, work and cloud

Students are guided to art research as a source of topics and greater understanding of particular issues. Art research is base on the search for informational and inspirational sources, searching for exact details and general contexts. Art reasearch is, as well, a working process based on constant self-teaching, in the studio environment, this training is naturally applicable to the entire group.

In the studio we search for manners of becoming aware and understanding the present. The process is, in learning, more important that partial results. The aim of the studio debates is to teach students to speak about developing projects, allow for the change of parts of their work based on feedback, and not focuse on a particular idea of the result.

The work is understood as an active engagement with a current project. The work may have various forms: reading, writing, observing, considering, collecting (text, visual, physical) material, photographing, recording, working with a series of photographs, editing video, working with 3D programs, phoning, installing......

The cloud is the memory of the studio. Sources, literature, ideas, references, which come up in the studio meetings are recorded in the cloud gradually.

Mode of study

Analysis of exercises, screening of works which are related to the topic, independent creative practice.

Prerequisites and co-requisites

General knowledge of visual art and photography

General knowledge of modern visual arts theory

Analytical abilities

Creativity

Course contents

Summary

The Photography and New Media Studio is an environment for communication, discussion, investigation, experimentation and development of thoughts. The studio is oriented towards a comparison of photography and new media which are understood as the static and digital image, sound, installation in the context of contemporary art with an emphasis of the entire scale of possibilities of the distribution of photography and art and the broadest social context. The students are guided to discovering their own topics and refinement of their own artistic language for use in sufficient processes and technologies, with an emphasis on the contemporary, new issues and potential.

Studio

The studio defines it composition. The entrance of each newbie and exit of each graduate changes it. The basis of instruction is dialog, sharing information, observations and feedback between the instructor and students, among guests and students, among the students themselves. The studio is a small social whole in which it is possible to search for analogs to overal social, political and economic events.

Student

Attends meeting and events in the studio

Carefully looks after their own motivation

Interested in that which interest them

Is aware of their responsibility.

Tries to identify new things

Instructor

Learns to teach the others to learn

Initiates dialog

Is critical, is able to face critique

Enables communication, collaboration.

Supports research

Attempts to identify new things

Guests

Invited guests to the studio bring new impulses and as well as open the studio towards arts operations or real social situations

Methods

Topic, research, paper, assignments

Consultations (individual, group)

Guests, presentations, debates

Summary

Excursions, outing

Library, museum, galleries

Google, YouTube

Assessment methods and criteria

Meetings participation (max. 2 absences ) 70%

Completion of component assignments 20%

Participation in excursions and outings 10%

Note

Hynek Alt (1976) is a visual artist and photographer who focuses on a conceptual approach and researches photographic media. He studied photography at the Prague FAMU and the Visual Research Lab at the State University of New York. All works are concieved, primarily, for the space of the gallery which is a part of the distinctive whole. Along with this, he also is involved in instructing. From 2008 to 2016, with Aleksandra Vajd, he directed the photography studio at UPRUM (Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design) in Prague.

Schedule for winter semester 2018/2019:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2018/2019: