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Model
Hládeková, Katarína ; Mazanec, Martin (referee) ; Zahoranský, Dušan (referee) ; Fajnor, Richard (advisor)
The dissertation thesis studies the extension of the context of the term model as a means of interpretation for Czech and Slovak post-conceptual works of art. Based on result of a historical excursion into the history of painting, sculpture and architecture, the thesis offers a new typology of a model which is exemplified on particular work of art of Czech and Slovak post-conceptual era in the first two decades of the 21st century. The historical part of the thesis concludes the following: model in the art is an emancipated form originating from different academic as well as layman discourse; emancipated model has a methaphorical layer and thus it reflects wide historical, cultural and social relations. The categories proposed include: a linear model, a physical model, a cognitive model and an immersive model. The linear model encompases the sketch themes and so-called visualization metaphors (graphs, charts, schemes, etc) and originates as a reaction to information saturation and complicated networks. The physical model is a form to architecture and hobby modelling, it is characterised by a simple, „sketchy“ structure reacting to social themes and individual and collective memory. The cognitive model points to the cognitive turn of the society, it evaluates the materialisation of mental space and explains the emancipated model as an open category. Finally, the immersive model interprets the medium of exhibition as a model form which is articulated by and artisitic manifesto or an architectural interference. Another form of immersion that is being discussed in the chapter about immersive models, is a photographic or 3 D computer illusion as a reaction to society‘s virtualisation. Simultaneously to theoretical-historical research, an artistic research was taking place which became the basis for the creation of different categories and typologies of model. Each proposed category thus includes a so-called author‘s note reflecting the practical part of the dissertation thesis.
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Mitote - Noise, Noise, Confusion
Smolek, Adam ; Vlková, Veronika (referee) ; Mazanec, Martin (advisor)
The topic of the bachelor thesis is divided into several interconnected levels. One of the levels is to examine the presentation of visual and audiovisual art within public space. Another level is the creation of mobile painting and drawing in the form of a diary entry, automatically generated text by boundless clicking on the most frequently used words within the phone's text editor and the implementation of visual tools. The output of the bachelor's thesis is an interactive installation within an empty retail space. The chosen form and aesthetics of the installation aims to create the impression of a strange business with electronics, gallery space or a bazaar. The topic and title of the bachelor's thesis is mitote, a mental state of confusion caused by the processing of conflicting information, a state of mind overwhelmed by a visual subject, into which thinking is introduced at a time when it is not possible to find a way to determine individual truth through rationality.
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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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Snoop Dog
Trenčanská, Laura ; Gajarský, Dominik (referee) ; Mazanec, Martin (advisor)
In my bachelor work Snoop Dog I study the relationship of text, moving image and material, which changes its form and meaning by intermingling the individual picture collages. The result is a site-specific installation made up of a variety of materials and technologies, which build on the form of narrative exhibition projects I realized at Citysurfer Office Prague (2017), Gallery FaVU Brno (2018), Galerie 207 Praha (2016). The starting point is the author's text and then the installation unit, where I try to work with the spatial conditions of the old FaVU building.
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Untitled
Sláma, Matěj ; Poliačková, Martina (referee) ; Mazanec, Martin (advisor)
The subject of the bachelor's thesis is hair as a phenomenon, image, trauma, when in detail I explore this biological material on the basis of personal experience and as part of a series of experiments in the created "hair laboratory". Thematically, I focus on different concepts of hairstyle -- image vs. examine of biological glitches of hair growth. I organize a set of records, drawings, post-productions, objects or found materials into a database, which also became the inspiration for the actual installation of the project.
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So far so good
Rariga, Branislav ; Mazanec,, Martin (referee) ; Šrámek, Jan (advisor)
A dystopic game inspired by a children’s monopoly game, with its content, rules, visuals, etc. metaphorically simulating, ironising or criticizing, and at the same time pointing to the issue of capitalist society, whether in the personal or work / corporate life of an individual, and its impact on society and its development.
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Live Low Framerate
Vrzáková, Barbora ; Maixner, Miroslav (referee) ; Mazanec, Martin (advisor)
In my diploma project I work with a topic of "watching" and arranging of view through digital media, especially the internet. The society got used to permanent presence of CCTV cameras at city squres, banks and shopping centres. The take of tracked locations is much bigger though. I was suprised by the amount of streams from totally unexpected places, which are possible to watch online. It is not a problem to visit a kitchen of columbian bistro, japanise barber shop or italian church, all from the comfort of home. The stream is running constantly and the viewer is limited only by the setting of the camera and a timezone of the particular country. Considering the fact, that separate streams are supplemented by almost no information, we are not able to define, who is the watchman, why is he watching and what is the actuall reason for watching. The whole situation of observing something in limited framerate without any context is just funny and creepy at the same time. My diploma project, which I named Live Low Framerate, is some kind of a reaction of those bizzare aspects of watching the public space.
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The Life of a Record
Ryneš, Zdeněk ; Mazanec, Martin (referee) ; Klímová, Barbora (advisor)
In my work, I deal with a topic of diary or diary record in sense of the creation and archivation of my personal history and reflective view on it. For one year, I was collecting random recordings, which I stored into a calendary divided database. In the first phase of my work, I was interested in making distance from emotionally and personally charged material. I cut the recordings according to/in the basis of the graphic schemes and outlines beforehand. Above all, I was concerned in the video collection as a whole. In subsequent phase, my interest was brought to the details of the whole complex. I started to split the video into the individual frames, those I was printing. I transfered the videos from the digital form into a material artefact. After that, I shared these frames printed in the linear order and completed by an asociational narration always with one invited participant through repeated action. The result is a space installation counting two videos. First of them representing archive as a whole and second one is the series of the recordings of past actions.
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Unbreakable Nightrunners
Tomanova, Karolina ; Šprincl, Petr (referee) ; Mazanec, Martin (advisor)
The video documentary Unbreakable Nightrunners deals with people around the artist, who documents what is happening in the group of which he is a part. The main actors live in the area and know each other from Elementary school. Half of the participants are still students and the other working individuals from different industries. Nightrunners are under 30 years old. Sometimes misunderstood by society and the surrounding area. The group of people she documents did not want to be like other people around. They didn't want to hang out and party. They have a common interest in cars and tuning. People with different views and styles, who always find a topic for conversation and space for joint activities have also a different philosophy of life, which could be summed up in the thesis that „life is a distinctive phenomenon that can not be reduced to mechanical events“. They help each other when something goes wrong, they are in good and bad times together. It documents all the events that the group creates, including ordinary meetings or interviews. It also reflects the fact that the group meets in one particular place and that is the gas station. The name Nightrunners is derived from a chat group on Facebook where they debate in various ways, agree on events, send funny videos and photos or spread new photos of cars and things they saw or were part of.
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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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