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Reality and dream
Kuthanová, Kristýna ; Sedlák, Michal (advisor) ; Brejcha, Šimon (referee)
Kuthanová, K.: Reality and dream. [final thesis] Prague 2012 - Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Education, Art Education Department, 80 p., (Attachments on CD: art work; documentation of didactic project at Grammar School Voděradská) Abstract The dissertation is concerned with the reality and dream subjects, from the personal point of view. The work has a character of fine art project. It deals with a process of personal memory recollection, which understanding as a dream. It try to affect relations between notions of recollection, dream, reality and space. The work is grounded in field literature knowledges, mainly in philosophy of Henry Bergson. The work verify possibilities to use the topic in a high school area as a didactical project. It is based on group of fine art topics and these are bounded to the theoretical ground of the study. The creative work try to to materialize some recollections as well as catch the process of recolletions. To catch the process of this recollecting, using the animation as a fine art medium. It also presents relations for fine art culture. The main target of the work is to deal with the topic from the personal point of view and explore the relations between notions of recollection, dream, reality ad space. Keywords: reality, dream, memory, genius loci, attitude to...
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Natural and Artificial Life
Noska, Martin ; Pavlík, Ján (advisor) ; Petrášek, František (referee)
This thesis is about similarities and differences between natural and artificial life. It examines how a combination of insight from the disciplines of computer science and philosophy can be used to address this issue. By applying the principles of evolution to artificial life, the paper shows the perspectives of this life form and its implications for mankind. Human history contains many attempts at constructing artificial creatures; however, this dream only became reality with the advent of digital computers. Although artificial life is built on different principles than natural life, is better to view both as complementary rather than as opposites. It is possible to speculate on symbiosis between artificial and natural elements and on the formation of hybrid life forms that combine features from both worlds. Artificial life is not dependent on biological cycles and its evolution can proceed much faster. It has the potential to overcome the necessity of death, which is characteristic of all biological entities. If we compare the intelligence of machines to that of natural organisms, it is possible to identify the differences between them. Machine intelligence has the potential to create artificial collective intelligence through computer networks that exceed the level of separate entities. Simple forms of artificial life, identifiable at present, will evolve in coming decades and raise a number of unsolved questions (i.e. ethical concerns). These issues are and will remain current.
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Things and voidness (a philosophical inquiry on the selected themes of the Zhuangzi)
Machek, David ; Petříček, Miroslav (referee) ; Lomová, Olga (advisor)
The core of the paper is a philosophical and philological analys i s of four shorter passages from the old chinese philosophical text Zhuangzi. Considering traditional Chinese commentaries ( especially Guo Xiang) and inspired by modem continental philosophy ( especially Ricoeur and Heidegger), the author seeks to interconnect some of the crucial philosophical themes (losing and forgetting of I, change, freedom, dream, usefulness/uselessness) and build a framework for an overall philosophical interpretation, which would challenge the wide-spread but one-sided view claiming Zhuangzi to be a relativist and irationalist. Drawing on reflections that will find a key to the text in a Zhuangzi 's call for mutual incorporation of the voluntary with the involuntary and the reflective with the spontaneous the author is trying to grasp the relation of things and voidness as the underlying principle or reality. Much like the whole text of Zhuangzi this relation is also intrinsically ambiguous. Voidness tums out to be nothing but an expanded thingness, things, however, cannot be expanded unless they cease to be things. This conflict is incorporated in an sage, whose wisdom and legitimacy as a ruler over things is determined by the ability to accept this conflict and to reconciliate with himself.
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A Phenomenon of fashion Blogs
Souralová, Ivona ; Hronová, Tereza (advisor) ; Reifová, Irena (referee)
Diploma thesis Fashion blogs and research on the phenomenon discusses a relatively new phenomenon of personal blogs with a focus on fashion and style. It presents fashion blogs in all their complexity, including the definition, classification, origin and evolution. The second section compares the descriptive way fashion blogs with thematically related fashion magazines and from various perspectives: formal characteristics, work organization, text, picture and graphic elements, audiences, the use of advertising and PR and representation of reality. The practical part is focused on qualitative research fashion blog - by a focus group interview with fashion bloggers and subsequently grounded theory method of analysis examines the various relationships, especially causal, which operate under the studied phenomenon. Through reveals further aspects of the fashion blogging such as motivation, fears, needs, dreams and ambitions of bloggers. The goal is to answer the question of how fashion blogs with its distinctive style and authors presentation define the fashion magazines and propose a basic theory of operation of the medium as yet not explored.
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Representations of the female in the work of Charles Bukowski
Mecner, Michal ; Quinn, Justin (advisor) ; Veselá, Pavla (referee)
Women. Coincidentally and yet not coincidentally the title of a Charles Bukowski novel and the main subject of this thesis. Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994) was a German-born prolific American writer whose poetry and prose revolve about the underground life of Los Angeles. His characters were drunks, hustlers, prostitutes, losers, and social misfits. As inspiration he had countless dead-end factory jobs, love-hate relationships, or afternoons spent in the racetrack. After a hard day's work he cracked open a beer, put on a classical record, and began composing poems until his fingers "began to bleed" from typing or until the police came on account of the neighbors' complaint about his disturbing the peace. Bukowski's work in general is centered around the antithesis of the traditional American dream but to be more precise we should say that Bukowski was largely ignorant of the conventional way of living and the American go-getter ideal. Among the low class which became the most frequent subject of Bukowski's writing there is no such thing as daydreaming and the nights are too wild to be spent on dreaming either. There is simply no place for dreams in the lives of lower classes; there is only the rough reality of life at the bottom of everything. No wonder the author chose "Don't try" as his epitaph, often...
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Borders of Scenography and Stage Design Invisible
Čičmanová, Erika ; Matásek, Petr (advisor) ; Tománek, Alois (referee)
Anotation
Limits and possibility of crossing them, invisibleness, invisible factors, unexpected surprises, secrets, imagination, fantasy, dream. Situations that unfold us beauty of casual day and rareness of every moment we experienced. Chronognosis of an artist, world appearance, new dimensions, perspective of individual standing inside collectivity, but looking at it from distance. Possibility of revelation of individual inner world is offered to the public through an artwork. Creation of such an artwork of course insist on the essential ability of an artist adaptation into the real world, ability of communication with his environment and society, ability of solving problems and acting in different situations. It applies to the team cooperation, especially in creative process of theatre making, double. This work Borders of scenography and stage design invisible (Hranice scénografie a stage design invisible), discourse artist existence within reality. It illustrates on both general and particular examples the wideness of the scenographer?s work, which encircle the prime meaning of scenography as an art component of the performing arts. Work, which take place in determinate borders of scenographers field of activity, and beyond the scenography itself, while it stays unseen in the final show.
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Between dream, play and reality: the Alfred Kubin's novel "Die andere Seite" and its Czech translation
Filinová, Tereza ; Bílek, Petr (referee) ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor)
Výtvarné i literární dílo Alfreda Kubina (1877-1959) je často spojováno se symbolismem či expresionismem (vystavoval s uskupením Der blaue Reiter), méně často se v souvislosti s ním mluví o surrealismu, přestože byl už v roce 1936 na newyorské výstavě "Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism" představen jako jeho předchůdce. Také do českého prostředí se Kubinův jediný román Die andere Seite (v českém překladu Země snivců, 1947) dostal právě díky surrealistům, kteří v něm odhalili surrealistickou obraznost stejně jako v jeho výtvarné tvorbě. V Kubinově osobnosti se (stejně jako u mnohých surrealistů) propOjUje výtvarný talent s literárním: jeho kresby měly často literární podtext ("příběhovost" kreseb), texty se zase vyznačovaly výtvarným pojetím. Tyto dvě části Kubínova talentu se propojily v jeho jediném románu Die andere Seite, který sám také ilustroval. V jeho případě ilustrace text pouze nedoprovázejí, ale vytvářejí svébytnou část knihy. O románu sám také prohlásil, že na jeho základě by měla být lépe pochopena jeho výtvarná činnost.I Román tedy vyjadřuje stejné ideje jako jeho kresby. Jeho napsání znamenalo ve vývoji Kubinovy tvorby podle jeho slov důležitý mezník - jednak se v něm poprvé propojil jeho výtvarný talent s literárním a jednak mu slovesné umění umožnilo objektivně zhodnotit dosavadní tvorbu a...
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Crossing the boundaries. Selected themes from the work of Fulvio Tomizza
Kosová, Karolína ; Flemrová, Alice (referee) ; Pelán, Jiří (advisor)
There are "outer" and "inner" boundaries. These are constantly tempted and crossed by people. Boundaries exist on maps as borderlines protected by heavy barriers or as small stonewalls that separate neighbors' fields in the countryside. There are boundaries between the sea and the mainland, the village and the city, between two nations. Fulvio Tomizza, whose work is analyzed in this study, lived with these boundaries. He has been coming to terms with the outer boundaries his whole life in his work Incomprehensible Boundaries. He wrote of the boarder line between the "free world of Italy", where he had in fact never reached his inner freedom and between Istria that since 1954 belonged to the "unfree part of the world". He was well familiar with the boundaries between Italian and Slavic population from the Istria area, since the worlds of these two ethnic groups were clashing inside him. He had therefore dedicated his written work to undo these boundaries that caused separation and rather conjugated them and created space for meeting of cultures and everyday life influences. And so the inner boundaries, he has mediated to us in his writings became "points of connection" between the past and present, reality and dream, life and death. He himself presents a great example for "crossing of boundaries"; his...
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The speech of nature and objects in the poetry of Medbh McGuckian
Skálová, Alena ; Wallace, Clare (referee) ; Quinn, Justin (advisor)
Before analysing the poetry of Medbh McGuckian, Michael Allen mentions different ways of reading poetry and suggests that in order to perceive the subterranean ways of imagery, "a complete understanding of a poem is not necessary".101 At that stage of reading, however, McGuckian may seem wilfully obscure, and only a reading aimed at the meaning of the poems proves the contrary. In closer readings Allen argues that we realize her "way of distancing us fruitfully",102 her sense that "dreams are part of reality", her "riddling translation of life into artefact, artefact into life"103 and other constraints for readers' interpretation of her poems. From Allen's point I wish to develop the link between the obscured meanings in McGuckian's verse and different ways of reading her poetry and conclude thus my observation of her work. During the introduction of my thesis I explained that I will not concentrate on individual themes within the poetry, but on the author's concept, her treatment of them, on her perception of the world. With different approaches to reading poems, the question about their meanings arises. Where should we look for the meaning of a poem, or should we strive to reach it at all? Answers to this question are different for different poets and different time. In McGuckian's case, I perceive the...
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