JAN EVANGELISTA PURKYNĚ UNIVERSITY IN ÚSTÍ NAD LABEM
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for academic year 2025/2026
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Course: History and theory of photography and new media VI

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Course title History and theory of photography and new media VI
Course code KDT/FU017
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 3
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Sýkorová Lenka, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Lukianenko Daria, MgA.
Course content
1. Postmodernism and photography. 2. Post-conceptual art - from installation through video art to photography. 3. The used role of photography in overlaps with fashion and graphic design both in the postmodern period and in current post-internet art. 4. Interactive art. Internet art - net art and post-internet. 5. Visual culture studies. Development of the discipline in the 1990s. 6. Visual culture studies after 2000. How to See the World by Nicholas Mirzoeff. 7. Photography and social media. Technological development of digital technologies and visual art. 8. Current trends since the 1990s in world art, such as concepts - non-photography and post-photography. 9. Current trends since the 1990s in Czech art, such as concepts - non-photography and post-photography. 10. Devaluation of photography on the background of accelerationism. The role of photography in the time of Instagram and the visual Generation Z. 11. Current development of video art and digital media.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
A cycle of lectures on development of world and Czech photography, including their theoretical reflection in the period since the 1980s. Further to Theory and history of photography V, the course studies the link between photography and contemporary visual art. At the same time, it deals with the role of applied photography in overlaps into fashion or graphic design. The course deals with the changes photography went through with the onset of postmodernism. It explains current trends from the 1990s to the present, such as concepts - non-photography, post-photography, post-internet. It acquaints students with utilizing new technologies, digital recordings, computer image manipulation against the background of development of visual studies
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
Attendance
Recommended literature
  • BIRGUS, Vladimír; MLČOCH, Jan. Česká fotografie 20. století. KANT, Uměleckoprůmyslové muzeum, Praha, 2009.
  • Cotton, Charlotte. The Photography as Contemporary Art. Thames & Hudson, 2009.
  • Dvořák, T. Fotografie, socha, objekt. AMU, 2017.
  • Kholeif, Omar. You Are Here: Art After the Internet.. Cornerhouse Publications Ltd., 2014. ISBN 978-0-9569571-7-7.
  • LARUELLE, François. Koncept nefotografie.. Fotograf 07, 2012.
  • MIRZOEFF, Nicholas. Jak vidět svět. ArtMap, Praha, 2018.
  • POSPĚCH, Tomáš. Myslet fotografii. Česká fotografie 1938-2000. PositiF a Dost, Praha, 2014.
  • POSPĚCH, Tomáš. Role fotografie: rozhovory o různé fotografii. PositiF, Praha, 2019.
  • Silverio, R. Postmoderní fotografie. AMU Praha, 2007.
  • Sturken, M., Cartwright, L. Studia vizuální kultury. Portál, Praha, 2009.
  • VANČÁT, Pavel. Mutující médium. Fotograf 07 ve spolupráci s Galerií Rudolfinum, Praha, 2011.


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JAN EVANGELISTA PURKYNĚ UNIVERSITY IN ÚSTÍ NAD LABEM, date of update: 01.12.2025 23:50. Data created for academic year 2025/2026