Hands-on Media Art Theory
Remake the Media History!
Martina Ivičič (SK)
Born online, new media art is like a cultural nomad aimlessly walking through the rhizomatic meanders of an archive without walls. It flickers back and forth in the annals of history and crosses geographic, cultural, and institutional boundaries, both physically and virtually. The aim of the subject The Best of New Media Art is to acquaint students with media art history in a similar way.
Math is the New Latin
Tomáš Staudek (CZ)
Algorithms in art are no longer mere visualization tools, but rather creative partners with a considerable share of aesthetic responsibility. The universal language of algorithms is math. Students of the subject put hands-on principles of mathematics in art, get acquainted with more than 50 creative software tools (visual grammars, fractals, chaos, tessellations, etc.) and learn how to understand and critically reflect on calculated creativity.
Deep Learning from Vasulkas’ Video Archive
Jana Horáková (CZ), Jiří Schimmel (CZ) et al.
The goal of the project is to experimentally test the utility of artificial neural networks in service of media art historiography and theory. Artificial neural networks conduct iconographic and audiographic analyses of the Woody and Steina Vasulka video archive.
Computer Graphic Re-visited
Jana Horáková (CZ), Jiří Mucha (CZ)
The exhibition project called Computer Graphic Re-visited draws on archival research. However, it is not a reconstruction of the original event, but rather a remake balancing between a digital art-history experiment and the “remembering exhibition” (R. Greenberg).
Aura of Audiography
Filip Johánek (CZ)
What is an audiography? It is a remedy for visual smog we have to breathe; it is an alternative to an integrated spectacle of instant visual and tactile pleasures that seduce us; it is an imprint of sound which can serve as a trigger of personal memory emergence. The audiography has the same power as the smell of Madeleine cakes in Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust. Close your eyes and listen. What do you see?
Behind the Interface
Monika Szűcsová (SK), Adam Franc (CZ)
Software art refers to the artistic activity that allows software (and the software's cultural significance) to be reflected within the media or material of software. The course Software Art is divided into theoretical lectures on the history and genealogy of software art on one hand, and practical application on the other. The presented works are the result of linking theoretical and practical skills that students have acquired.
