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SASHA
Kadaňka, Petr ; Mazanec, Martin (referee) ; Vaněk, Vojtěch (advisor)
The main topic of the work is the interpretation of feelings related to the issue of disappearing landscape values at the expense of uncontrolled extensive development of suburban areas. It is a subjective thought product of several years of experience in architectural practice, including, among other things, one's own participation in a similar invasive construction. This empiricism has resulted in the constant questioning of ethical conduct and responsibility. The key terms are suburbanization, urban sprawl, development, satellite town, outskirts, transformation of the aura of a place in „non-aura“. An integral part of the work is represented by considerations about the general position of the object within the hierarchy of (sub)urban space. The object does not mean only positive examples in the form of aesthetic, orientation or vegetation elements. The focus is also on its averted form — waste, utilitarian technical and functional elements or, for example, the seemingly endless colonization of public space by cars. Colonization of our minds. All spatial objects are also psychotropic. Their mental impact can be beneficial, arousing affect or emotion. But what if the objects in the public space are completely missing? The urban object is not far from the position of an artifact, a prop of everyday life, which does not belong to a person physically, but mentally.
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white noise
Roubalová, Anna ; Hrončeková, Ivana (referee) ; Mazanec, Martin (advisor)
In her bachelor thesis the author will focus on the audiovisual process she uses in her artistic practice. Through this practice, she collaborates with other artists to achieve a visual concept that will become the final project of the bachelor thesis. This approach reflects the artist's interest for the film medium. In her work, the author discusses the possibilities of narrative abstractions, forms connected through the medium of video. The abstracts are based on a theme concerned with the possibilities of representing a narrative that is not clearly given, but the resulting work brings it closer to the viewer as an individual observer. It is a combination of artistic components forming a body of work supporting the actual message of the final project. By using these aspects, the artist works with an aesthetic that emphasizes and forms a unified image. The aim is a multi-medial installation using both classical and unconventional methods of display, which correspond to the output of the bachelor thesis itself. The final installation is based on the work itself and is intended to then function within gallery space as well as less formal space.
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love rhymes with fuck you
Bražina, Jan ; Pěchouček, Michal (referee) ; Mazanec, Martin (advisor)
In my work I materialize personal experiences, memories and ideas about future life. In relation to these, I also address the heteronormativity of relationships dictated by society to young people. In my work I deal with these themes through intuitive work with textiles, where I try to express through this material my feelings, in which I tend to a domestic and peaceful background. Over the past year I have begun a project that originally titled Hydroponic Love, in which I dealt with my own failures in relationships and building a bond with inanimate objects in order to satisfy my desire for love. Through this stage I gradually developed my theme and elaborated on the idea of love that ...that can develop into a dangerous obsession. The project eventually expanded into four parts, in in which I developed several sub-themes that no longer focused on my personal desires and failures, but also the broader social context related to them.
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The Scar
Sláma, Matěj ; Nytra, Martin (referee) ; Mazanec, Martin (advisor)
Diploma thesis Scar is a short film about the fictional history of the found „monument“. In the animated film, I examine the context and meaning of the „monument“ in a virtual environment that I created based on visual documentation and mapping of specific places that I explored during my expeditions through the urban landscape of Brno and The Hague. These are mainly „lost“ spaces (also referred to as vague terrain or no man's land), which inspired me to create my own visual map of my urban explorations. The starting point of the work is personal lived experience, which I reflect by documenting places, creating 3D objects and manipulating 3D scans of „lost“ spaces with elements of computer games. In the resulting film, the viewer follows a guide–walk through a virtual environment where objective reality is intentionally blended with a fictional world built on the author's imagination.
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I Am The One Who's Gonna Steal Your Job
Ilič, Risto ; Houser, Milan (referee) ; Mazanec, Martin (advisor)
The diploma thesis I Am The One Who's Gonna Steal Your Job deals with the transitional period in the life of a young artist who dreams of career realization in his field. He thinks about how to achieve this when he realizes that even a less established painters can often sell their paintings for thousands of czech crowns, because paintings can be easily commodified and, as a result, placed in the interior. He thus decides to leave his area of practice and tries to get into the market with traditional artistic media with the help of artificial intelligence and marketing. He doesn't go far for visual inspiration, as he tries to recycle and distort photos (so-called visual smog) of a corner store on the other side of the street. The thesis deals with the issue of the emergence of artificial intelligence in the field of visual arts and with the eternal question of the ethics of the authorship of a work of art and its authenticity. It also deals with the question of the employment of art school graduates. Therefore, the work does not only provide a subversive analysis of the art market but also a reflection of the position of the artist participating in this market.
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Barbara: Fragile monsters, privileged victims
Ilič, Barbora ; Kupková,, Marika (referee) ; Mazanec, Martin (advisor)
The diploma thesis deals with the relationship between the narrator subjects and objectified others, in the context of the romanticizing narratives of cinematography. The output of the work is a short auto-fiction film Barbara: The Weltschmerz Musical. Through the allegorical figure of a foreigner-artist with the name Barbara, I point out the intimate level of phenomena, which shape the relationship of the so-called West to the so-called Balkans. The region is represented by the ex-Yugoslav area, and in particular by present-day Serbia. Thus, through the theme of yugonostalgia, the work focuses on the issues of decolonization of one's own identity and the reparative turn of the artworld. However, the practical output of the diploma is not so much an analysis of these phenomena as a subtle effort to point out individual motivations and internal processes that accompany them. For this, the work uses the methods of post-irony and cringe aimed at the author herself and her role in the construction of the narrative.
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Concomitant Outgrowth Event
Prokop, Lukáš ; Cséfalvay,, András (referee) ; Mazanec, Martin (advisor)
The diploma project – a short animated film accompanied by an even briefer theoretical text – is in its whole a convoluted topology of themes and approaches supposedly enclosed in a single narrative guiding the viewer through its labyrinth. A mythologizing auto-fiction, thus, lies alongside attempts at a disintegration of the human-technic duality, the dislocation of purely ocular vision from the current notion of epistemology, or the realignment of our perception of GCI – all meticulously interpreted through a world-building experiment grounded in a strictly science-fictional (and theory-fueled) imagination.
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Potter Wasp
Davydenko, Polina ; Mazanec, Martin (referee) ; Klímová, Barbora (advisor)
The work deals with the topic of migration and subsequent integration of the migrant into society, his feelings of nostalgia, and homesickness. Potter wasps and their way of life are similar to humans in some aspects. The work likens the potter wasp's individualistic way of being and the construction of clay vases for their descendants to human immigrant mothers building space and conditions for their children in the new country.
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Blue Box
Šprincl, Marie ; Jančík, Alexandr (referee) ; Mazanec, Martin (advisor)
The bachelor's thesis Blue Box follows a long-term project that began in 2013, when I was on my way to the east coast of the USA. I began creating a mystical Blue Box story around the mythology and ideology of xenophobic movements, after a mystical experience in New York's Orthodox Jewish Quarter and attending a Ku Klux Klan public gathering in Gettysburg. In thematic terms, my work is a universal report about the dangers of extremism in any form, focusing on the essence and mechanisms of its origin and spread.
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