Course: Archeology of contemporary art II

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Course title Archeology of contemporary art II
Course code KDT/FU020
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 1
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Kolečková Zdena, prof. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Processual and participatory tendencies in art I. Reconstruction; deconstruction; recycling; appropriation. 2. Processual and participatory tendencies in art II. Transdisciplinarity and multi-genre features of an artwork. 3. Art of care; accentuation of the social and utility dimension of an artwork standing on the border between a social project, performance and musical or theatre performance. 4. Art and science. The artist's analytical approach to the subject of their own "visual research". 5.-6. The method of experiment in art; comparison; archiving resources; application of "scientific procedures" to a selected phenomenon; creative use of other methods exercised primarily in the exact sciences. 7. Art & Design. Futuristic visions; "Gesamtkunstwerk" at the turn of the millennium; transdisciplinarity; postproduction. 8.-9. Global and "glocal" art in the era of postcolonialism. Globally synchronous promotion of current artistic tendencies on all continents; art of minorities; art and migration. 10. Artistic operation after the onset of information technologies; sharing artistic trends in the era of the Internet and social networks. 11. Presentation of seminar paper, final discussion.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The elective course represents a complementary element of the main line of art history interpretation, which aims at acquainting lower grade students with the main tendencies that determined the dynamics of development of visual art over the past half century. Emphasis is placed on development lines preceding the current form of visual art and assumption of various forms of contemporary graphic production. The course comprehensively analyzes selected chapters of visual art at the end of the 20th century, characterizes global artistic tendencies of the early 21st century, and outlines the direction of current artistic trends in an effort to provide a basic forecast of further development in the field of current visual culture. Teaching consists in the presentation of model themes understood not only as key points of departure, but especially as logical consequences of previous developments in art history, as determinants of the political situation and the overall social climate of this epoch. Participants are drawn into the discussion, co-moderate thematic areas, and by multimedia means, they are introduced to form and to interpretation of specific works of art. In the seminar paper, they respond to current events by means of auto-reflection - they present a selected theme at the level of a concept at the end of the semester during a joint discussion.
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
  • BYUNG-CHUL, Han. Vyhořelá společnost. Rybka Publishers, Praha, 2016.
  • e-flux. What is Contemporary Art?. Sternberg Press, Belín, 2010.
  • FUKUYAMA, F. Konec dějin a poslední člověk. Rybka Publisher, 2002. ISBN 80-86182-27-4.
  • Janoščík, Václav. Objekt. Praha: Kvalitář s.r.o., 2015. ISBN 80-260-8639-0.
  • Krauss, Rosalind. Perpetual Inventory. MIT Press, Cambridge - London, 2010.
  • Lévy, Pierre. Kyberkultura. Karolinum, 2000.
  • McLuhan, H.M. Člověk, média a elektronická kultura, Jota s.r.o., Brno. JOTA, 1996.
  • RUSH, M. New Media in Art. Londýn, Thames & Hudson, 2005.
  • SOKOLÍČKOVÁ, Zdenka (ed.). Kyber a eko. Host, Brno, 2019.
  • ZÁLEŠÁK, J. Apocalypse Me. FAVU VUT, 2016.


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