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Fear Eats the Soul
Spalajković, Tamara ; Marković, Nikola (referee) ; Mazanec, Martin (advisor)
For my master thesis I present a video installation named Orlando: Fear Eats the Soul. The project aims to explore the tension created by performative disrupting of the complex relationship between humans and digital images. Contemporary modes of our (human) interaction with digital media challenge the divide between digital and “real.” The video and the installation deal with the potential of performative addressing of this divide through a fictional narrative, utilizing the formal characteristics of a digital camera (apparatus) as a gatekeeping instrument. In this documentation I elaborate on the theoretical and contextual foundations of the project and offer insight into the methods used in the production of the video – the central piece of the installation.
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Document
Marie, Lukáčová ; Koryčánek, Rostislav (referee) ; Artamonov, Vasil (advisor)
Mocumentary movie which is mapping the area of Czech border fortification, its quality and the current social situation. Movie consists of two parts, the first is subject to the current state and the second shifting their story to future visions.
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Documentary Approaches in Contemporary Fine Art Moving Image
Bačíková, Alžběta ; PhDr. BcA. Andrea Slováková, Ph.D., MBA (referee) ; Pospiszyl, Tomáš (referee) ; Cenek, Filip (advisor)
The Dissertation titled Documentary Approaches in Contemporary Fine Art Moving Image focuses on the practical and theoretical research of documentary approaches to videos and films in the art field. It notices especially the self-reflexive strategies as a consequence of critical approach towards the medium itself and lack of belief in its ability to mediate reality or truth. Attempts to convey reality by audiovisual means are accompanied by the reflection of the way this happens. The Dissertation also reflects on the uncertain relation between the documentary and truth, which has been described in art by the artist and theoretician Hito Steyerl. The examined artworks were made in the period between the beginning of 21st century, when the documentary turn was reflected intensively, and the present time. The selection of examples was strongly influenced by the local study of Israeli art in The Video Archive of the Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv. Motives of conflict, violence and trauma resonating in studied videos and films influenced further selection and analysis of the authors’ documentary methods from a different context. In the selected works I can see particularly various forms of alienation effects and self-reflexive approaches. Using these procedures the artists highlight the constructedness of the audiovisual work and the way it was produced. Recurring formal principles have been stated. Reenactment of real events, revealing the way the work was produced or the artist’s position in the production process; these strategies indicate the uncertain relationship between the documentary work and reality. In the frame of these tendencies also reevaluation of the observational documentary strategies as something seemingly opposite to self-reflexive strategies is reviewed. Theoretical outcomes are continuously accompanied by author’s own art projects concentrated around the form of documentary portrait and its (de)construction. They experiment with the formal principles analyzed on a theoretical level.
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The Czech video art (in the context of world videoart)
Zajačiková, Veronika ; Dolanová,, Lenka (referee) ; Šejn, Miloš (referee) ; Ruller, Tomáš (advisor)
The dissertation project Czech Video Art (in the context of world video art) aims to comprehensively map and define the category of video art in the Czech cultural space with a logical anchorage in the world situation. The project consists of two separate, though interconnected, parts. The theoretical research is directed towards a publication that offers a comprehensive survey of the Czech art scene that respects the concept of video art in the international professional discourse associated with analogue technology. From the origins and the first pioneers of the medium of video in the world in the 1960s, through the situation at the break of the 1970s and 1980s in the Czech Republic, to the 1990s, when this epoch is brought to an end by the advent of digital technology. The second part of the work consists of a practical curatorial project of the exhibition. The purpose of the dissertation on the topic of Czech Video Art is to take a professional position on the matter of Czech video art both from the theoretical and historiographical point of view, and to introduce this topic to the wider public in a practical way. Now is a good time for this evaluation, especially because of the appropriate time gap, which allows for sober reflection. Also, the theoretical tools and methods of solution are now available, especially the expert sources of foreign bibliography, which is absent in our country. The motivation was the scientific publication by Pavlína Morganová, which analysed the Czech Action Art.
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X-Y-Z FILM
Smrekovský, Adam ; Šplíchal, Pavel (referee) ; Šrámek, Jan (advisor)
The central theme of my diploma thesis is the functioning representatives of the generation Z in the periphery of the global metropolis of the 21st century. I have already dealt with the theme in the bachelor thesis, where together with the fictitious character of Breck Coleman, we "naively" escaped from the city environment to the unspecified countryside. The characters around which the action of the thesis is built is also thinking about leaving the place where they live, but not in the countryside, but to another country and another city… They perceive the move as a necessity, but at the same time realize that they do not solve anything. In the end, they come to the fact that the problem is not resolved by changing the environment-there must be a complete change in the ruling ideology, but it is not impossible in any conventional way… The scene comes with various conspiracy theories and post-truths that should make the way to change the ruling ideology.
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My Teenage Dream Never Ended
Jarošová, Sára ; Zálešák, Jan (referee) ; Klímová, Barbora (advisor)
In my diploma thesis, I work with the theme of post memory, possibilities of the (un)viability of the future in contexts where the history remains always present. A person grows up in stories that precede birth. So often we unintentionally shape our own stories with traumatic affairs which due to the principle of time cannot be transferred, understood or recreated. My diploma thesis balances on the border of the abstract level of memory care through the process of mapping and reassessment of one’s definition of what a home is based on family history. I have created a dystopian video that takes place in the future in a digitally created world after the colaspe of the contemporary world as we know it. The present is collapsing due to global, political, ecological and economic crises. Those are signs of a shared present in which we prefer to look utopically to the future or seek a melancholic solace in the past. But what to do when even the past that defines our own history doesn’t exist at all, or if it does, it exists in blurred fragments of childhood memories; what to do when the future has nothing to offer us either?
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Video art in galleries and as a teaching aid
Wižďálková, Dita ; Pfeiffer, Jan (advisor) ; Kuříková, Michaela (referee)
The theoretical part of the bachelor thesis focuses on the basic presentation of the history of the moving image up to the present day. It also introduces the reader to video art by means of an individually created list of individual forms and strategies that are used in the creation of videos and films. The list represents the principles and forms of using video, both for gallery space and for public space. The didactic part of the bachelor thesis focuses on the use of video in teaching as an educational tool. It also discusses the use of new media in art education classes. Subsequently, the work presents proposals for art education lessons using video as an inspirational creative stimulus for students' own work. Proposals are always created individually with a different form of video creation used. The practical part of the bachelor's thesis will present a series of author's works that reflect the rich experience and knowledge from the theoretical part of the work. It is also connected with the didactic part, where the author's videos are created for the purpose of motivation for lesson plans. KEYWORDS moving image, video art, art, media, pedagogy, art and media education
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Fear Eats the Soul
Spalajković, Tamara ; Marković, Nikola (referee) ; Mazanec, Martin (advisor)
For my master thesis I present a video installation named Orlando: Fear Eats the Soul. The project aims to explore the tension created by performative disrupting of the complex relationship between humans and digital images. Contemporary modes of our (human) interaction with digital media challenge the divide between digital and “real.” The video and the installation deal with the potential of performative addressing of this divide through a fictional narrative, utilizing the formal characteristics of a digital camera (apparatus) as a gatekeeping instrument. In this documentation I elaborate on the theoretical and contextual foundations of the project and offer insight into the methods used in the production of the video – the central piece of the installation.
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Experimental film and video in the second half of the 20th century in didactical context
Černá, Tereza ; Arbanová, Linda (advisor) ; Čech, Viktor (referee)
Černá, T.: Experimental film and video in the second half of the 20th century in didactical context. [Master's thesis] Prague 2016 - Charles University, Faculty of Education, Department of Art Education, 95 p. (Attachments: art work of pupils and my own art work on DVD). This Master's thesis is a theoretical study in which I explore the connections between moving pictures - experimental film and video art - and the developments in fine art in the second half of the 20th century. In the thesis I look into the topic of moving pictures, their specific characteristics and the distinctions between them, and I define the basic concepts. Based on selected key figures who linked experimental film, video art and fine art, I describe the key approaches and principles that emerged in relation to this field, both in the Czech Republic and abroad. The teaching section presents three projects designed for and taught in art lessons, based on the work of some of the selected artists. The projects test the theoretical insights from the thesis through art lessons taught to schoolchildren aged 11 to 15. The thesis also comprises an art project, reflecting the insights obtained from the theoretical study, which became the platform for my own videos.
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Video art and public space
Shcherbak, Viktoriia ; Pfeiffer, Jan (advisor) ; Magidová, Markéta (referee)
The work deals with video art and issues related to the presentation of video art in gallery and non-gallery spaces. The theoretical part defines the basic concepts such as new media, analog and digital video and video art, and then examines the polymorphism of video as a medium influenced and modified by other media. The final section is devoted to spatial forms of video art, such as video performance and video installation, and explores the special aspects of video in three-dimensional space. In the practical part, I carry out a survey (N = 65) of viewers' attitudes to space and video art. Respondents preferred experiencing video art in a dark, "cinema-like" room over other given options (in order of popularity: spatial video installation in a gallery, YouTube and video projection in a public square). The most important characteristics of video art spaces for respondents were: good acoustics, high video resolution projection and affordability of access.In the final section of the practical part, I describe and realize a series of video installations and performances, working with experimental ambient music, video installations and non-gallery spaces. The didactic part of the work summarizes the advantages of using video art in school, specifically in art lessons, and presents a design for a...
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