The seminar enables students to get oriented in contemporary art both by means of meeting selected artists and theoreticians personally, and through visiting exhibitions and follow-up discussions. The completed programme includes mainly expositions, in which photography blends together with other media, so that it is possible to understand the position of photography in the context of contemporary visual art. Events and figures of the broadest spectrum of Czech and Central European visual art are selected, the focus of meeting in the Prague gallery hunt/kastner artworks. Every year, attention is also focused on the current finalists of Jindřich Chalupecký Award. The course endeavours to extend the students' general knowledge, as well as their contacts with particular people and institutions. The seminar also familiarizes students with critical thinking and reviewing exhibited or published works. During the seminar, students will try to interpret and contextualize their own artworks considering the current gallery operation, accompanied by a discussion about the nature of their work and its local consequences. At the same time, they will try to put their own inspirational sources into a broader context and reflect this relationship in the form of an essay or a review. With regard to the individual nature of teaching and the need to adapt to the current exhibition plans and possibilities of people we address, it is not possible to itemize the teaching plan in individual weeks.
The gained capabilities constitute an encompassment and an aquirement of knowledge and experience in the given field of study, they result from a concrete annotation of the subject and are aimed at a profile´s fulfilment of the graduate of the given field of study.
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