Devising 2

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Code	Completion	Credits	Range	Language Instruction	Semester
204MDDE2	credit	2	2 hours (45 min) of instruction per week, 29 to 39 hours of self-study	English	summer

Subject guarantor

Tomáš PROCHÁZKA

Name of lecturer(s)

Tomáš PROCHÁZKA, Robert SMOLÍK

Students will be developing simple topic into a possible performance by discovering mental connections between objects, concepts and events.

Students will use other indirect strategies for creating a performance, which might include principles of randomnes, divination, or applying principles of algorithm and database to the theatre environments and systems.

Learning outcomes

Course graduate:

will develop the imagination as a key ability for any kind of creation;
will cultivate the ability of working with patterns, structures and connections;
will work on an experimental script for the performance.

Prerequisites and other requirements

None.

Literature

Brian Eno: A Year with Swollen Appendices

Peter Szendy: Listen: A history of our ears

Jonathan Sterne: The Audible Past

Salomé Voegelin: Listening to Noise and Silence

Lev Manovich: The Language of New Media

Magda Stanová: Algorithms in Art

William S. Burroughs: Doing Easy

Nicolas Bourriaud: Postproduction

John Cage: Silence

Friedrich Kittler: Gramofon Film Typewriter

Evaluation methods and criteria

Work during the semester, active participation in the course. The minimum attendance is 75%.

Note