Audiovisual artistic practices 08-KUDU-APA

First film avant-garde: absolute film (Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling, Walter Ruttmann).
First avant-garde: surrealism (J. Cocteau, G. Dulac, René Clair).
First avant-garde: dadaism and experiments with film and photography (Man Ray).
Dadaism between art and antiart: Cravan and Duchamp.
Film as a ritual: Maya Deren.
Film as a documentary: Jonas Mekas.
American underground film: Jack Smith, Andy Warhol.
Intermedia in artistic practices: audiovisual in the Fluxus environment.
Structural film, post-Cage inspirations and post-minimalism.
Video art - new audiovisuality.
Video-performance: Somaestetyka.
New media art.

Module learning aims

C_1 Knowledge of avant-garde and neo-avant-garde intermedia artistic practices: history of the first film avant-garde and post-war film avant-garde. C_2 Knowledge of intermedia artistic practices from video art to new media art. C_3 Knowledge of media art of the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century.

Information on where to find course materials

Library and reading room of Adam Mickiewicz University, materials in the Institute of Cultural Studies.

Major

Cultural Studies

ECTS code

4 ECTS credits

Number of hours

Methods of teaching for learning outcomes achievement

Lecture

Student workload (ECTS credits)

4 ECTS credits Class hours (according to the course plan) with a teacher: 30 Student's own work: preparation for classes: 30 Student's own work: preparation for the final exam: 30 Student's own work: preparation of the final thesis: 30

Cycle of studies

2nd cycle

Module type

compulsory

Year of studies (where relevant)

Year 5

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences

Interest in visual media, audiovisual artistic practices, culture and contemporary art.

Course coordinators

Marta Kosińska

Learning outcomes

Student knows the history of the first avant-garde film, distinguishes and indicates the genres, genera and examples of avant-garde film.
Students will learn the history of the post-war American film avant-garde: they will understand the following terms: experimental film, underground film, experimental film, amateur film, structural film.
Students will learn to reconstruct the history of intermedia artistic practices from the first experiments with John Cage's sound, through the activities of the Fluxus group, to structural film and the beginnings of video art.
The student knows history and can point to examples of contemporary art of new media.

Assessment criteria

5.0 Attendance at classes, student activity during classes, preparation for classes, excellent theoretical and practical use of the content discussed during classes. Excellent ability to apply the content of the module in practice, tested both in the final thesis written by the students and during the final exam.
4.5 Attendance at classes, student activity in classes, preparation for classes, more than good theoretical and practical use of the content discussed in classes. More than a good ability to apply the content of the module in practice, tested both in the final thesis written by students and during the final exam.
4.0 Attendance at classes, student activity during classes, preparation for classes, good theoretical and practical use of the content discussed during classes. Good ability to apply the content of the module in practice, tested both in the final thesis written by the students and during the final exam.
3.5 Attendance at classes, preparation for classes, more than sufficient theoretical and practical use of the content discussed in classes. More than sufficient ability to apply the content of the module in practice, tested both in the final thesis written by the students and in the final examination.
3.0 Attendance at classes, preparation for classes, sufficient theoretical and practical use of the content discussed during classes. Adequate ability to apply the content of the module in practice, tested both in the final thesis written by the students and in the final examination.
2.0 Absence from classes, lack of preparation for classes, insufficient theoretical and practical use of the content discussed during classes. Insufficient ability to apply the content of the module in practice, tested both in the final thesis written by the students and in the final exam. Failure to prepare the final paper. Fundamental deficiencies in theoretical knowledge, making it impossible to talk about the content of the module.

Bibliography

Niemiecka myśl filmowa. Antologia 1, red. A. Gwóźdź, Wydawnictwo Szumacher, Kielce 1992.
H. Richter, Dadaizm: sztuka i antysztuka, Wydawnictwa Artystyczne i Filmowe, Warszawa 1983.
J. Clifford, "Surrealizm etnograficzny", w: J. Clifford, Kłopoty z kulturą: dwudziestowieczna etnografia, literatura i sztuka, Wydawnictwo KR, Warszawa 2000.
J. Dąbkowska-Zydroń, Surrealizm po surrealizmie, Instytut Kultury, Warszawa 1994.
R. W. Kluszczyński, Film, video, multimedia. Sztuka ruchomego obrazu w erze elektronicznej, Rabid, Kraków 2002.
M. Kosińska, Ciało filmu. Medium obecnego w amerykańskiej powojennej awangardzie filmowej, Wydawnictwo Galerii Miejskiej „Arsenał”, Poznań 2012.
P. Tyler, Underground film. A Critical History, De Capo Press, 1995.
Film Culture Reader, red. P. A. Sitney, Cooper Square Press, 2000.
Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde, red. B. Nichols, University of California Press, Los Angeles 2001.
Ch. Meigh-Andrews, A history of video art, Berg 2006.
E. Wójtowicz, Sztuka w kulturze postmedialnej, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Katedra, Gdańsk 2016.
P. Piotrowski, Dekada: o syndromie lat siedemdziesiątych, kulturze artystycznej, krytyce – wybiórczo i subiektywnie, Obserwator 1991.
P. Piotrowski, Znaczenia modernizmu, Rebis 2011.
A. Markowska, Dwa przełomy. Sztuka polska po 1955 i 1989 roku, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UMK, Toruń 2012.
Ł. Ronduda, Sztuka Polska lat 70. Awangarda, Polski Western, CSW Zamek Ujazdowski, Warszawa 2009.
Polska Sztuka Video, IF Museum Inner Spaces, Stowarzyszenie Kontekst Sztuki 2006.
Nam June Paik. Driving Media, Widok. WRO Media Art Reader, Wro Art Centrer, Wrocław.
M. Jankowska, Wideo, Wideo instalacja, wideo performance w Polsce w latach 1973-1994. Historia, Artyści, Dzieła, Wydawnictwo Neriton, Warszawa 2004.
Od Monumentu do Marketu. Sztuka video i przestrzeń publiczna, red. P. Krajewski, V. Kutlubasis-Krajewska, Wrocenter, Wrocław 2005.
Józef Robakowski. Obrazy energetyczne. Zapisy bio-mechaniczne 1970-2005, WROCENTER, Wrocław 2007.

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