Memory, deception and archives in contemporary audiovisual practice

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
307DPMA ZK 3 2DO English, Czech summer

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Learning outcomes of the course unit

Our aim is to overlap and blur the boundaries between the genres and disciplines such as photography, film, video art and video-installation. The important part of the final output will be a specific idea of its presentation in an appropriate artistic environment such as gallery of art, institution, cinema room, black-box, internet platform, site specific project.

Mode of study

in person, 5-6 lectures, by agreement

Prerequisites and co-requisites

The workshop is intended for students of all classes who consider their work in the terms of the contemporary art and try to exceed the categories and genres of the photography towards the moving image and video art. Knowledge of editing software such as Final Cut and Avid or the essentials of postproduction software /e.g. Adobe After FX/ is beneficial.

Course contents

The goal of the “Memory, deception and archives in contemporary audio-visual practice” workshop is to discover new viewpoints and try to find interdisciplinary overlaps and connections between media. We will explore personal and collective memory, storytelling in contemporary video art and its disruption, the boundary between reality and fiction, the principle of an unreliable narrator, alternative history, conspiracy theories and working with fake news and hoaxes. We will emphasise the importance of selecting topics that are current and anchored in the context of contemporary visual culture. We will focus on how to research archival materials and on how to select, alter, recontextualize and incorporate them into original work. We will also touch upon the possibilities of manipulating the moving image.

Recommended or required reading

Slavoj Žižek: Lacrimae rerum, Kieślowski, Hitchcock, Tarkovskij, Lynch, AMU v Praze, 2015

Miroslav Petříček: Myšlení obrazem, Herrmann & synové, Praha 2009

Michael Rush: Video Art, Thames and Hudson, 2007

Scott Watson, Diana Thater, Carol J. Clover: Stan Douglas, Phaidon Press Limited, 1998

Allain Robbe-Grillet: Gumy / The Erasers, Patrick Modiano: Ulice temných krámků /Missing Person/, Mladá fronta, 2014

Links:

http://www.archivesandcreativepractice.com/be-inspired

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mu2O5DyQh0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2Pn8SCFvjM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srhcNFMbSk0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao9vUkdeX8Q

http://www.chromart.org/andreas-muhe-mischpoche-at-hamburger-bahnhof-berlin/

https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/42187/slater-bradley-s-doppelganger-trilogy/

Assessment methods and criteria

I will evaluate the working process, interest and invidual approach of the students to the topics, and the quality of the final output.

Note

lecturer: Adéla Babanová

Further information

No schedule has been prepared for this course

The subject is a part of the following study plans