Art, theory and photography in 21st century 2
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| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 307UTAF2 | ZK | 2 | 2T | English, Czech | summer |
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
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
Mode of study
seminar sessions, reading, writting, alternatively exhibition visits
Prerequisites and co-requisites
- basic knowledge about contemporary art and theory
Course contents
- 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
Recommended or required reading
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
Assessment methods and criteria
Active attenadance
Midterm paper
Final Essay
Note
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).
Further information
No schedule has been prepared for this course
The subject is a part of the following study plans
- Photography CZ - Bachelor - 1920-1year (optional subject)
- Photography CZ - Bachelor - 1920-2year (optional subject)
- Photography CZ - Bachelor - 1920-3year (optional subject)
- Photography CZ - Master - 1819 (required subject)
- Photography CZ - Master - 1920_1y (required subject)
- Photography CZ - Master - 1920_2y (required subject)