Centrum audiovizuálních studií FAMU

* Intertextualita - shaping of a text meaning by another text http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertextuality

* Intermedialita - area between single (tradional) media and art forms http://cinepur.cz/article.php?article=5[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermedia]]

* Multimedia - media that uses a combination of different forms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia

* Hypertextualita - a way to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext

* Hypermedialita - extension of the term hypertext in which graphics, audio, video, plain text and hyperlinks intertwine to create non-linear information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypermedia

* Transmedialita - process of translation of content into another media http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmedia_storytelling][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmediation

* Cross-media - media experience distributed across media platforms using a variety of media forms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_media

* Postmedia Postmedia_theories

* Media Studies: Key names, concepts and basic overview

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936)

'Key concepts'

* Technical reproduction after 1900 * Presence of original, uniqueness, authenticity vs. reproduction * Concept of aura

'Resources'

* Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate [http://www.wbenjamin.org/walterbenjamin.html] * The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Wiki Entry) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_Mechanical_Reproduction] * The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (online edition) [http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm]

Understanding Media: Extension of Man (1964)

Key concepts * The Medium is the message * Content of any medium is always another medium * Medium = mediator, extension of human body and mind * Symbiosis of media and message * Hot and Cold medium, according to degree of participation, level of abstraction * Narcissus theme – fascination with technology projected as an extension, or projection of human nervous system.

'Resources'

* Marshall McLuhan Homepage http://www.marshallmcluhan.com/ * Understanding Media: Extension of Man http://beforebefore.net/80f/s11/media/mcluhan.pdf

Towards A Philosophy of Photography (1983)

'Key concepts'

* Traditional vs. Photographic image * Photography = new image form distant from traditional images * Image as a result of apparatus * Photography as gesture

'Resources'

* Vilém Flusser Archive http://www.flusser-archive.org/ * Towards A Philosophy of Photography http://www.altx.com/remix.fall.2008/flusser.pdf] * Za filosofií fotografie [[http://monoskop.org/images/f/f8/Flusser_Vilem_Za_filosofii_fotografie_OCR.pdf

Remediation: Understanding New Media (1999)

* Remediation as a defining characteristic of new digital media * Digital media is constantly remediating its predecessors * Immediation (Transparency) and Hypermediation

'Resources'

* Remediation: Understanding New Media http://lmc.gatech.edu/~objork3/1101/fall07/remediation.pdfhttp://www.scribd.com/doc/27114772/R%CE%B5m%CE%B5diation-Und%CE%B5rstanding-New-M%CE%B5dia-Bolter-Grusin * in Tomáš Dvořák (ed.) - Kapitoly z dějin a teorie médií http://www.kosmas.cz/knihy/166987/kapitoly-z-dejin-a-teorie-medii/

Language of New Media (2002)

Principles of new media

* Numerical representation * Modularity * Automation * Variability * Transcoding

'Resources'

* Lev Manovich Homapage http://www.manovich.net/ * Language of New Media Homepage http://manovich.net/LNM/index.html * Language of New Media download http://ucsd.academia.edu/LevManovich/Papers

A. 9 Evenings of Art and Technology, New York 1966 in Armory In 1966 ten New York artists and thirty engineers and scientists from Bell Telephone Laboratories collaborated on a series of innovative dance, music and theater performances, 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering, held in October at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City. The artists were 'John Cage', 'Lucinda Childs', 'Öyvind Fahlström', 'Alex Hay', 'Deborah Hay', 'Steve Paxton', 'Yvonne Rainer', 'Robert Rauschenberg', 'David Tudor' and 'Robert Whitman'.

https://player.vimeo.com/video/107488380?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0

http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=1840

B.Vasulkas The Brotherhood

http://www.vasulka.org/

https://vimeo.com/41208924

https://vimeo.com/41186905 Making of Brotherhood, 1996

'Friendly Fire'

https://player.vimeo.com/video/175976920

https://vimeo.com/175976920 Friendly Fire reconstruction