Art, theory and photography in 21st century 2

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Garant předmětu

Jméno vyučujícího (jména vyučujících)

Výsledky učení dané vzdělávací složky

.On satisfactory completion of this subject, the student will be able to:

• critically asses problems of contemporary art and theory, including some basic social issues
• be acquainted with elementary theoretical concepts
• read philosophical sources
• apply basics of academic writting

Forma studia

.Active attenadance

Midterm paper

Final Essay

Předpoklady a další požadavky

.- basic knowledge about contemporary art and theory

Obsah kurzu

.- get overview of contemporary philosophy

• get experience with critical thinking
• practice reading and writting
• getting acquainted with elementary philosophical and theoretical concept as present in state final examination qeustions

Specific topics and problems:

• What is contemporary, temporality of art, modern / contemporary / postcontemporary art
• Contemporary art and mass culture, spectacle, consumerism, quality TV
• Postmedia condition
• Contemporary art as postconceptual art
• Antiaesthetic conceptions of art, limits of aesthetics
• End of art, posthistoricity
• Poststructuralism and art
• Political and economical conditions – late capitalism, neoliberalism, postfordism
• Globalization, incorporation of non western art (histories)
• The body – postcolonial, feminist, queer and war perspectives on art
• Commodification, consumerism. product aesthetics
• The digital, AI, algorithmic condition, cybernetics
• Return of the object. from dematerialization of art to new materialism
• New animism, agency of things and nonhumans, posthumanism, science versus nature
• Anthropocene, climatic change, anthropocentrism, environmental art

Doporučená nebo povinná literatura

Immanuel Kant, What is Enlightenment?

Michel Foucault, What is Enlightenment?

Adorno, Horkheimer, Dialectics of Enlightenment

Vilém Flusser, Into the Universe of Technical images

Vilém Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography

Rosalind Krauss, Notes on the Index: Seventies Art in America

Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism

Václav Magid, texts in exhibition series Conditions of impossibility

Václav Janoščík, Objekt

Václav Janoščík, Lukáš Likavčan, Jiří Růžička, Mysl v terénu

Nicolas Bourriaud, Esthétique Relationnelle

Timothy Morton, Hyperobjects

Franco Bifo Berardi, Uprising, on Finance and Poetry

Tiqqun, Raw materials for a theory of young girl

Other Authors used during seminar:

W.G.F. Hegel, Brian O‘Doherty, TJ. Demos, Ray Brassier, Eugene Thacker, Alain Badiou, Fridrich Nietzsche, Slavoj Žižek, The Invisible Comitte, C.S. Peirce, Jacques Lacan

.

Hodnoticí metody a kritéria

.Active attenadance

Midterm paper

Final Essay

Poznámka

Václav Janoščík (1985) is pedagogue, theorist and curator currently teaching at Academy of fine Arts, Film and TV school, and Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. He edited several volumes on problems of contemporary thinking ranging from new materialism, speculative realism, acceleration, future studies and media theory (Object, 2015; Reinventing Horizons, 2016; Mind in Terrain, 2018). His newest project is a book Nonsleeping (2018).

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