Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań - Central Authentication System
Strona główna

Audiovisual artistic practices

General data

Course ID: 20-KUDU-APA
Erasmus code / ISCED: 14.9 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0319) Social and behavioural sciences, not elsewhere classified The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title: Audiovisual artistic practices
Name in Polish: Audiowizualne praktyki artystyczne
Organizational unit: Faculty of Anthropology and Cultural Studies
Course groups: (in Polish) Moodle - przedmioty Szkoły Nauk Humanistycznych
(in Polish) Przedmioty na 3 semestrze kulturoznawstwa II stopnia
(in Polish) Przedmioty w Instytucie Kulturoznawstwa
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): 4.00 Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles:
  • the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS;
  • the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h;
  • 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes;
  • weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS;
  • work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load.
view allocation of credits
Language: Polish
Module type:

compulsory
Major:

cultural studies
Cycle of studies:

2nd cycle
Module learning aims:

C_1 Knowledge of avant-garde and neo-avant-garde intermedia artistic practices: history of the first film avant-garde and post-war film avant-garde.

C_2 Knowledge of intermedia artistic practices from video art to new media art.

C_3 Knowledge of media art of the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century.
Year of studies (where relevant):

Year 2
Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences:

Interest in visual media, audiovisual artistic practices, culture and contemporary art.
Information on where to find course materials:

Library and reading room of Adam Mickiewicz University, materials in the Institute of Cultural Studies.

Methods of teaching for learning outcomes achievement:

lecture
Student workload (ECTS credits):

4 ECTS credits

Class hours (according to the course plan) with a teacher: 30

Student's own work: preparation for classes: 30

Student's own work: preparation for the final exam: 30

Student's own work: preparation of the final thesis: 30

Short description:

The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the history and theory of audiovisual artistic practices, from the first film avant-garde through the post-war avant-garde of American experimental film to video and interactive art. The lecture participants will get acquainted with audiovisual materials, source texts and historical studies on film avant-garde and audiovisual arts.

Full description:

First film avant-garde: absolute film (Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling, Walter Ruttmann).

First avant-garde: surrealism (J. Cocteau, G. Dulac, René Clair).

First avant-garde: dadaism and experiments with film and photography (Man Ray).

Dadaism between art and antiart: Cravan and Duchamp.

Film as a ritual: Maya Deren.

Film as a documentary: Jonas Mekas.

American underground film: Jack Smith, Andy Warhol.

Intermedia in artistic practices: audiovisual in the Fluxus environment.

Structural film, post-Cage inspirations and post-minimalism.

Video art - new audiovisuality.

Video-performance: Somaestetyka.

New media art.

Bibliography:

Niemiecka myśl filmowa. Antologia 1, red. A. Gwóźdź, Wydawnictwo Szumacher, Kielce 1992.

H. Richter, Dadaizm: sztuka i antysztuka, Wydawnictwa Artystyczne i Filmowe, Warszawa 1983.

J. Clifford, "Surrealizm etnograficzny", w: J. Clifford, Kłopoty z kulturą: dwudziestowieczna etnografia, literatura i sztuka, Wydawnictwo KR, Warszawa 2000.

J. Dąbkowska-Zydroń, Surrealizm po surrealizmie, Instytut Kultury, Warszawa 1994.

R. W. Kluszczyński, Film, video, multimedia. Sztuka ruchomego obrazu w erze elektronicznej, Rabid, Kraków 2002.

M. Kosińska, Ciało filmu. Medium obecnego w amerykańskiej powojennej awangardzie filmowej, Wydawnictwo Galerii Miejskiej „Arsenał”, Poznań 2012.

P. Tyler, Underground film. A Critical History, De Capo Press, 1995.

Film Culture Reader, red. P. A. Sitney, Cooper Square Press, 2000.

Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde, red. B. Nichols, University of California Press, Los Angeles 2001.

Ch. Meigh-Andrews, A history of video art, Berg 2006.

E. Wójtowicz, Sztuka w kulturze postmedialnej, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Katedra, Gdańsk 2016.

P. Piotrowski, Dekada: o syndromie lat siedemdziesiątych, kulturze artystycznej, krytyce – wybiórczo i subiektywnie, Obserwator 1991.

P. Piotrowski, Znaczenia modernizmu, Rebis 2011.

A. Markowska, Dwa przełomy. Sztuka polska po 1955 i 1989 roku, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UMK, Toruń 2012.

Ł. Ronduda, Sztuka Polska lat 70. Awangarda, Polski Western, CSW Zamek Ujazdowski, Warszawa 2009.

Polska Sztuka Video, IF Museum Inner Spaces, Stowarzyszenie Kontekst Sztuki 2006.

Nam June Paik. Driving Media, Widok. WRO Media Art Reader, Wro Art Centrer, Wrocław.

M. Jankowska, Wideo, Wideo instalacja, wideo performance w Polsce w latach 1973-1994. Historia, Artyści, Dzieła, Wydawnictwo Neriton, Warszawa 2004.

Od Monumentu do Marketu. Sztuka video i przestrzeń publiczna, red. P. Krajewski, V. Kutlubasis-Krajewska, Wrocenter, Wrocław 2005.

Józef Robakowski. Obrazy energetyczne. Zapisy bio-mechaniczne 1970-2005, WROCENTER, Wrocław 2007.
Learning outcomes:

Student knows the history of the first avant-garde film, distinguishes and indicates the genres, genera and examples of avant-garde film.

Students will learn the history of the post-war American film avant-garde: they will understand the following terms: experimental film, underground film, experimental film, amateur film, structural film.

Students will learn to reconstruct the history of intermedia artistic practices from the first experiments with John Cage's sound, through the activities of the Fluxus group, to structural film and the beginnings of video art.

The student knows history and can point to examples of contemporary art of new media.

Assessment methods and assessment criteria:

5.0 Attendance at classes, student activity during classes, preparation for classes, excellent theoretical and practical use of the content discussed during classes. Excellent ability to apply the content of the module in practice, tested both in the final thesis written by the students and during the final exam.

4.5 Attendance at classes, student activity in classes, preparation for classes, more than good theoretical and practical use of the content discussed in classes. More than a good ability to apply the content of the module in practice, tested both in the final thesis written by students and during the final exam.

4.0 Attendance at classes, student activity during classes, preparation for classes, good theoretical and practical use of the content discussed during classes. Good ability to apply the content of the module in practice, tested both in the final thesis written by the students and during the final exam.

3.5 Attendance at classes, preparation for classes, more than sufficient theoretical and practical use of the content discussed in classes. More than sufficient ability to apply the content of the module in practice, tested both in the final thesis written by the students and in the final examination.

3.0 Attendance at classes, preparation for classes, sufficient theoretical and practical use of the content discussed during classes. Adequate ability to apply the content of the module in practice, tested both in the final thesis written by the students and in the final examination.

2.0 Absence from classes, lack of preparation for classes, insufficient theoretical and practical use of the content discussed during classes. Insufficient ability to apply the content of the module in practice, tested both in the final thesis written by the students and in the final exam. Failure to prepare the final paper. Fundamental deficiencies in theoretical knowledge, making it impossible to talk about the content of the module.

Classes in period "Academic year 2020/2021, winter semester" (past)

Time span: 2020-10-01 - 2021-02-28
Selected timetable range:
Navigate to timetable
Type of class:
lecture, 30 hours more information
Coordinators: Marta Kosińska
Group instructors: Marta Kosińska
Students list: (inaccessible to you)
Examination: Course - Exam
lecture - Exam
Module type:

compulsory
ECTS code:

4 credits
Number of hours:

30
Short description:

The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the history and theory of audiovisual artistic practices, from the first film avant-garde through the post-war avant-garde of American experimental film to video and interactive art. The lecture participants will get acquainted with audiovisual materials, source texts and historical studies on film avant-garde and audiovisual arts.

Full description:

First film avant-garde: absolute film (Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling, Walter Ruttmann).

First avant-garde: surrealism (J. Cocteau, G. Dulac, René Clair).

First avant-garde: dadaism and experiments with film and photography (Man Ray).

Dadaism between art and antiart: Cravan and Duchamp.

Film as a ritual: Maya Deren.

Film as a documentary: Jonas Mekas.

American underground film: Jack Smith, Andy Warhol.

Intermedia in artistic practices: audiovisual in the Fluxus environment.

Structural film, post-Cage inspirations and post-minimalism.

Video art - new audiovisuality.

Video-performance: Somaestetyka.

New media art.

Bibliography:

Niemiecka myśl filmowa. Antologia 1, red. A. Gwóźdź, Wydawnictwo Szumacher, Kielce 1992.

H. Richter, Dadaizm: sztuka i antysztuka, Wydawnictwa Artystyczne i Filmowe, Warszawa 1983.

J. Clifford, "Surrealizm etnograficzny", w: J. Clifford, Kłopoty z kulturą: dwudziestowieczna etnografia, literatura i sztuka, Wydawnictwo KR, Warszawa 2000.

J. Dąbkowska-Zydroń, Surrealizm po surrealizmie, Instytut Kultury, Warszawa 1994.

R. W. Kluszczyński, Film, video, multimedia. Sztuka ruchomego obrazu w erze elektronicznej, Rabid, Kraków 2002.

M. Kosińska, Ciało filmu. Medium obecnego w amerykańskiej powojennej awangardzie filmowej, Wydawnictwo Galerii Miejskiej „Arsenał”, Poznań 2012.

P. Tyler, Underground film. A Critical History, De Capo Press, 1995.

Film Culture Reader, red. P. A. Sitney, Cooper Square Press, 2000.

Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde, red. B. Nichols, University of California Press, Los Angeles 2001.

Ch. Meigh-Andrews, A history of video art, Berg 2006.

E. Wójtowicz, Sztuka w kulturze postmedialnej, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Katedra, Gdańsk 2016.

P. Piotrowski, Dekada: o syndromie lat siedemdziesiątych, kulturze artystycznej, krytyce – wybiórczo i subiektywnie, Obserwator 1991.

P. Piotrowski, Znaczenia modernizmu, Rebis 2011.

A. Markowska, Dwa przełomy. Sztuka polska po 1955 i 1989 roku, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UMK, Toruń 2012.

Ł. Ronduda, Sztuka Polska lat 70. Awangarda, Polski Western, CSW Zamek Ujazdowski, Warszawa 2009.

Polska Sztuka Video, IF Museum Inner Spaces, Stowarzyszenie Kontekst Sztuki 2006.

Nam June Paik. Driving Media, Widok. WRO Media Art Reader, Wro Art Centrer, Wrocław.

M. Jankowska, Wideo, Wideo instalacja, wideo performance w Polsce w latach 1973-1994. Historia, Artyści, Dzieła, Wydawnictwo Neriton, Warszawa 2004.

Od Monumentu do Marketu. Sztuka video i przestrzeń publiczna, red. P. Krajewski, V. Kutlubasis-Krajewska, Wrocenter, Wrocław 2005.

Józef Robakowski. Obrazy energetyczne. Zapisy bio-mechaniczne 1970-2005, WROCENTER, Wrocław 2007.

Classes in period "Academic year 2021/2022, winter semestr" (past)

Time span: 2021-10-01 - 2022-02-23
Selected timetable range:
Navigate to timetable
Type of class:
lecture, 30 hours more information
Coordinators: Marta Kosińska
Group instructors: Marta Kosińska
Students list: (inaccessible to you)
Examination: Course - Exam
lecture - Exam
Module type:

compulsory
ECTS code:

4 credits
Number of hours:

30
Short description:

The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the history and theory of audiovisual artistic practices, from the first film avant-garde through the post-war avant-garde of American experimental film to video and interactive art. The lecture participants will get acquainted with audiovisual materials, source texts and historical studies on film avant-garde and audiovisual arts.

Full description:

First film avant-garde: absolute film (Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling, Walter Ruttmann).

First avant-garde: surrealism (J. Cocteau, G. Dulac, René Clair).

First avant-garde: dadaism and experiments with film and photography (Man Ray).

Dadaism between art and antiart: Cravan and Duchamp.

Film as a ritual: Maya Deren.

Film as a documentary: Jonas Mekas.

American underground film: Jack Smith, Andy Warhol.

Intermedia in artistic practices: audiovisual in the Fluxus environment.

Structural film, post-Cage inspirations and post-minimalism.

Video art - new audiovisuality.

Video-performance: Somaestetyka.

New media art.

Bibliography:

Niemiecka myśl filmowa. Antologia 1, red. A. Gwóźdź, Wydawnictwo Szumacher, Kielce 1992.

H. Richter, Dadaizm: sztuka i antysztuka, Wydawnictwa Artystyczne i Filmowe, Warszawa 1983.

J. Clifford, "Surrealizm etnograficzny", w: J. Clifford, Kłopoty z kulturą: dwudziestowieczna etnografia, literatura i sztuka, Wydawnictwo KR, Warszawa 2000.

J. Dąbkowska-Zydroń, Surrealizm po surrealizmie, Instytut Kultury, Warszawa 1994.

R. W. Kluszczyński, Film, video, multimedia. Sztuka ruchomego obrazu w erze elektronicznej, Rabid, Kraków 2002.

M. Kosińska, Ciało filmu. Medium obecnego w amerykańskiej powojennej awangardzie filmowej, Wydawnictwo Galerii Miejskiej „Arsenał”, Poznań 2012.

P. Tyler, Underground film. A Critical History, De Capo Press, 1995.

Film Culture Reader, red. P. A. Sitney, Cooper Square Press, 2000.

Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde, red. B. Nichols, University of California Press, Los Angeles 2001.

Ch. Meigh-Andrews, A history of video art, Berg 2006.

E. Wójtowicz, Sztuka w kulturze postmedialnej, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Katedra, Gdańsk 2016.

P. Piotrowski, Dekada: o syndromie lat siedemdziesiątych, kulturze artystycznej, krytyce – wybiórczo i subiektywnie, Obserwator 1991.

P. Piotrowski, Znaczenia modernizmu, Rebis 2011.

A. Markowska, Dwa przełomy. Sztuka polska po 1955 i 1989 roku, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UMK, Toruń 2012.

Ł. Ronduda, Sztuka Polska lat 70. Awangarda, Polski Western, CSW Zamek Ujazdowski, Warszawa 2009.

Polska Sztuka Video, IF Museum Inner Spaces, Stowarzyszenie Kontekst Sztuki 2006.

Nam June Paik. Driving Media, Widok. WRO Media Art Reader, Wro Art Centrer, Wrocław.

M. Jankowska, Wideo, Wideo instalacja, wideo performance w Polsce w latach 1973-1994. Historia, Artyści, Dzieła, Wydawnictwo Neriton, Warszawa 2004.

Od Monumentu do Marketu. Sztuka video i przestrzeń publiczna, red. P. Krajewski, V. Kutlubasis-Krajewska, Wrocenter, Wrocław 2005.

Józef Robakowski. Obrazy energetyczne. Zapisy bio-mechaniczne 1970-2005, WROCENTER, Wrocław 2007.

Classes in period "Academic year 2022/2023, winter semester" (past)

Time span: 2022-10-01 - 2023-02-26
Selected timetable range:
Navigate to timetable
Type of class:
lecture, 30 hours more information
Coordinators: Marta Kosińska
Group instructors: Marta Kosińska
Students list: (inaccessible to you)
Examination: Course - Exam
lecture - Exam
Module type:

compulsory
ECTS code:

4 credits
Number of hours:

30
Short description:

The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the history and theory of audiovisual artistic practices, from the first film avant-garde through the post-war avant-garde of American experimental film to video and interactive art. The lecture participants will get acquainted with audiovisual materials, source texts and historical studies on film avant-garde and audiovisual arts.

Full description:

First film avant-garde: absolute film (Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling, Walter Ruttmann).

First avant-garde: surrealism (J. Cocteau, G. Dulac, René Clair).

First avant-garde: dadaism and experiments with film and photography (Man Ray).

Dadaism between art and antiart: Cravan and Duchamp.

Film as a ritual: Maya Deren.

Film as a documentary: Jonas Mekas.

American underground film: Jack Smith, Andy Warhol.

Intermedia in artistic practices: audiovisual in the Fluxus environment.

Structural film, post-Cage inspirations and post-minimalism.

Video art - new audiovisuality.

Video-performance: Somaestetyka.

New media art.

Bibliography:

Niemiecka myśl filmowa. Antologia 1, red. A. Gwóźdź, Wydawnictwo Szumacher, Kielce 1992.

H. Richter, Dadaizm: sztuka i antysztuka, Wydawnictwa Artystyczne i Filmowe, Warszawa 1983.

J. Clifford, "Surrealizm etnograficzny", w: J. Clifford, Kłopoty z kulturą: dwudziestowieczna etnografia, literatura i sztuka, Wydawnictwo KR, Warszawa 2000.

J. Dąbkowska-Zydroń, Surrealizm po surrealizmie, Instytut Kultury, Warszawa 1994.

R. W. Kluszczyński, Film, video, multimedia. Sztuka ruchomego obrazu w erze elektronicznej, Rabid, Kraków 2002.

M. Kosińska, Ciało filmu. Medium obecnego w amerykańskiej powojennej awangardzie filmowej, Wydawnictwo Galerii Miejskiej „Arsenał”, Poznań 2012.

P. Tyler, Underground film. A Critical History, De Capo Press, 1995.

Film Culture Reader, red. P. A. Sitney, Cooper Square Press, 2000.

Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde, red. B. Nichols, University of California Press, Los Angeles 2001.

Ch. Meigh-Andrews, A history of video art, Berg 2006.

E. Wójtowicz, Sztuka w kulturze postmedialnej, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Katedra, Gdańsk 2016.

P. Piotrowski, Dekada: o syndromie lat siedemdziesiątych, kulturze artystycznej, krytyce – wybiórczo i subiektywnie, Obserwator 1991.

P. Piotrowski, Znaczenia modernizmu, Rebis 2011.

A. Markowska, Dwa przełomy. Sztuka polska po 1955 i 1989 roku, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UMK, Toruń 2012.

Ł. Ronduda, Sztuka Polska lat 70. Awangarda, Polski Western, CSW Zamek Ujazdowski, Warszawa 2009.

Polska Sztuka Video, IF Museum Inner Spaces, Stowarzyszenie Kontekst Sztuki 2006.

Nam June Paik. Driving Media, Widok. WRO Media Art Reader, Wro Art Centrer, Wrocław.

M. Jankowska, Wideo, Wideo instalacja, wideo performance w Polsce w latach 1973-1994. Historia, Artyści, Dzieła, Wydawnictwo Neriton, Warszawa 2004.

Od Monumentu do Marketu. Sztuka video i przestrzeń publiczna, red. P. Krajewski, V. Kutlubasis-Krajewska, Wrocenter, Wrocław 2005.

Józef Robakowski. Obrazy energetyczne. Zapisy bio-mechaniczne 1970-2005, WROCENTER, Wrocław 2007.

Classes in period "Academic year 2023/2024, winter semester" (past)

Time span: 2023-10-01 - 2024-02-25
Selected timetable range:
Navigate to timetable
Type of class:
lecture, 30 hours more information
Coordinators: Piotr Kędziora
Group instructors: Piotr Kędziora
Students list: (inaccessible to you)
Examination: Course - Exam
lecture - Exam
Course descriptions are protected by copyright.
Copyright by Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań.
ul. Wieniawskiego 1
61-712 Poznań tel: +48 61 829 4000 contact accessibility statement USOSweb 7.0.3.0 (2024-03-22)