Study syllabus

1st YEAR

Additional Technology Lessons:

Composition - relations :: whole/excerpt, line/space, intensity/contrast, detail/sharpness, perspective/angle, color scheme/tonality, micro/macro
Recording - work with photo and video cameras:: focus, light exposure, sequentials, classical animation, zooming, panorama, pivot, fade in/out
Processing - laboratory and editing room:: edit/cut, insert/assemble, dissolve/wipe, tricks and effects

the philosophy of "still life" - silence, emptiness, darkness - the major phenomena of dematerialization (John CAGE / Alan KAPROW)
direct life experience with the material world: haptic, tasting, olfactory, sonic and visual qualities
historical still life - treatment of the theme through traditional techniques: drawing/picture, text/description, theatre (objects as props) - semantic qualities: fetishism
facticity of things: collage, whole/fragment, documentation/archive
contemporary still life - captured by new media: voyeurism and visionarism
action - "still life"

the philosophy of portrait - artist and his model / self-portrait
the sensual experience of "myself" - perception and interpretation - self-reflection and stylization (ORLAN)
traditional portrait and mask - living pictures (Mariko MORI / Yasumasa MORIMURA)
expression in new media: photo and video, reproduction of music and voice, communication techniques
face, personality and image (Cindy SHERMAN)
action - "portrait / self-portrait"

Additional technology lessons:

Work with space :: position and construction of shape, space, scene, installation, architecture
Work with light :: physical qualities of light, color scheme, filters, optics, spotlights, reflectors, lasers, projectors, screens, displays

morphogenesis of shape and space - infusion and fullness - the aura of things and the energy of a place
outer spatial experience in senses, intellect, emotion and intuition
relations in space: object and thing, person and object, figure and space, character and place, role and scene - "the genius of shape" and "the genius of place" (Marina ABRAMOVIČ / Richard LONG)
prehistoric and ancient sites: caves (Kostelik - initiation praxis), menhirs, oppida, forts, medieval and modern architecture: church, cloister, town, museum, gallery (Nikolaus LANG)
new media and virtual space (Dennis OPPENHEIM / Dan GRAHAM )
action - "posture/position/location" (shamanistic practices)

elementary techniques: positioning, movement, dance, gesture, mimics
inner physical experience: breath, touch, smell, taste, hearing and seeing
corporeality, imagination, mental and spiritual space (Vito ACCONCI / Valie EXPORT)
stylization of the body in prehistoric and tribal art, the figure in the 20th century: new figuration, body art (Chris BURDEN / Carolee SCHNEEMAN)
new technology and new corporeality - telepresence
"body actions - personal / intimate rituals" (Tantra)

Additional technology lessons:

physical space-time - object, code
motion and meaning - sign and symbol, translation and animation
image of speech: system of writing, type, text, typography and visualization - visual poetry
image of music: sonic values and articulation, manipulation and multiplication
speaking machines, artificial languages (midi), mathematical linguistics and language games, artificial intelligence and memory (VASULKA'S / STELARC)
"in-formation, per-formation, trans-formation"

biological time-space - subject, speech
movement and energy - thinking and language, etymology and semiotics
the speech of a picture: the origin of an image in the visual gesture - action painting (GUTAI)
the music of speech: the origin of music in the acoustic gesture - oral tradition, narration, singing, dramatization, rhetoric (Butó)
script as a fixed sign, graphology - practical exercises in calligraphy
"gestic action" (Herman NITSCH / Vienna Actionists)

philosophy of action: persons and things move in the historical, cultural, social and spiritual space-time (Paul McCARTHY, Mike KELLEY)
"reading" of /common/ events as parts of the continuous/discontinuous story
"objective" means of expression and "subjective" expression - image
rituals of tribal people (Eskimos, Australian aborigines, Indians, Oriental tradition), our daily rituals - totem and taboo (James LUNA / Coco FUSCO / Goméz PEŃA)
new rituals and creation of myths ? party /rave, house, techno/and mass media
art of "inter-action"

the structure of a story and narration: opening, movement, climax, ending
the narration of fine arts /text and picture/, the narration of music /word and sound/, the narration of theatre /gesture and play/
the origin of mythologies through rhythmization of everyday experience in history: fairy tale and myth
tradition and modernity: musical and visual theatre - virtual reality (Robert WILSON)
new forms of pop-narration: comics, clip, show - games (RESIDENTS / Jeff KOONS)
stylization and universalization of a personal way through life: the testimony of a ?personal mythology? (Laurie ANDERSON / Mathew BARNEY)

Individual study programs.

Extent and evaluation of the course:

Continuous lesson checks:: in fortnightly cycles through the presentation of partial tasks.
Requirements for credits and access to the final semester project:: completion of assigned partial tasks.
Requirements for passing exams:: a successful presentation of assigned final semester project.
Prerequisites and related courses:: according to the recommended syllabus and timetable based on the corresponding study plan.
Timetable units:: according to individual student?s timetable and study groups by years.

Tutorials: about 3 hours a week
Studio praxis: about 12 hours a week