Course: Multimedia Aspects of Contemporary Art

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Course title Multimedia Aspects of Contemporary Art
Course code KDT/800
Organizational form of instruction no contact
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 0
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction unspecified
Work placements unspecified
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Mrkus Pavel, doc. Mgr.A.
Course content
These informations are in the annotation of the course.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
Within a postmodern analysis, the course comes to multimedia projections, electronic art, and new interactive media. The aim of Multimedia aspects of contemporary art is to make the plurality and heterogeneity of the 20th century art understandable for the students, and to make them perceive the period of the last third of the 20Th century and the beginning of the 21st century in a broader context as a logical result of social, political, end economic aspects of the epoch. The course is devoted to: - impulses and global trends coming from both western and extra - European cultures. - contemporary art in the Central-European region, and issues connected with this geographical and cultural phenomenon. It deals with determination, identity, and current self-reflection of this region, and with arts of individual countries, and with confrontation of international and national trends and traditions. - development of the ability to get oriented on contemporary Czech visual - art scene, and to classify its representatives within the Central European, European, and world contexts. broader context between history of arts, and its penetration into the spheres of sociology, philosophy, politics, cultural anthropology, and other disciplines.
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.
Prerequisites
Successful completion of the previous study

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Exam Colloquium
Recommended literature
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