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Students Handbook The Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM) Visual Arts Master’s Program in English Academic Year 2020-2021 umprum.cz/en umprum.cz/web/en/study/visual-arts-program UMPRUM, Prague 2020 facebook.com/visualartsumprum The Academy of Arts, Architecture facebook.com/groups/1635071876503921 and Design
1.1 About UMPRUM 1.2 About the Visual Arts Program 1.3 Structure of the Program 1.4 History of the Visual Arts Program 1.5 VA Graduates 2.1 VA Schedule for Academic Year 2020/2021 3.1 Visual Arts Curricula 3.1.1 Consultations 3.1.2 Lectures and Seminars 3.1.3 Elective Workshops 3.2 VA Credit Scheme 3.3 Grading System at UMPRUM 4.1 Other Useful Information 4.2 Services UMPRUM Offers to Its Students 5.1 Other Prague Art and Architecture Schools 5.2 Prague Libraries 5.3 Shops 5.4 Prague Galleries 5.5 Smaller Prague Cinemas 5.6 Festivals and Events Index Index
1.1 ABOUT UMPRU The Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design in Prague (UMPRUM) was founded in 1885 as the first school of its kind to be established in the Czech lands. Today it is a modern, dynamic and outward-looking institution that consistently ranks among the most prestigious art universities in Western and Eastern Europe. The school is located in the historic centre of Prague and housed in a Neo-Renaissance building that features traditional atelier-style studios. Though the Visual Arts (VA) program is a relatively recent addition to this legacy (since 2007), the contribution made by VA students has made significant impact both on UMPRUM, Prague, and the Czech Republic as a whole. With the network of students and professors of UMPRUM at their disposal, VA students are uniquely positioned to take advantage of all the city has to offer in and out of their field. All UMPRUM activities and events are updated regularly also on the UMPRUM facebook, instagram and YouTube. 3 Students Handbook 2020/2021
1.2 ABOUT THE VISUAL ARTS PROGRAM Launched in February 2007, Visual Arts is a two-year postgraduate international program in English (three-year program across UMPRUM’s architecture studios) that combines practical studio-based seminars and workshops with theoretical lectures on art theory and history. It is designed for BA/BFA or MA/MFA degree holders from universities and colleges abroad, irrespective of country. It aims at providing foreign students with sound education in their chosen discipline/studio in order to prepare them for individual and collaborative work in their profession all over the world. Successful Visual Arts students – who after two years of studies (or three years across Architecture studios) pass the final state exam on history of art and defend both a diploma thesis and project – gain an internationally acknowledged academic degree MgA, which is equivalent to MA, MFA, MLitt. Students Handbook 2020/2021 4
1.3 STRUCTURE OF THE PROGRAM Over two/three years of intensive techniques, etc. A key element in the study, VA students both deepen their VA mission is the organization and knowledge in their field of specialization, realization of group exhibitions of VA and expand their horizons at group students’ work outside of the confines Visual Arts meetings: each student of UMPRUM. These experiences help participates in their specific studio (e.g. students develop their skills in curating, Painting, Intermedia, Glass) where they installing, and promoting, and are de‑ attend regular consultations, present signed to help them establish contacts their end-of-semester projects each in the Czech Republic and beyond. semester, and present and defend their diploma projects. They also attend group VA consultations and take part in extra activities (e.g. exhibitions) organized by the VA tutor; emphasis is put on theory and critical reflection of current issues. VA students are offered a unique chance to be taught by respected authorities on modern and contemporary Czech art and visual culture, graphic design, applied arts, design and architecture of the 20th and 21st centuries. At the same time, they are encouraged to take up elective workshops and develop and hone their skills in bookbinding, drawing, painting, clay modelling, photography, jewellery, ceramics, printing and model-making 5 Students Handbook 2020/2021
1.4 HISTORY OF THE VISUAL ARTS PROGRAM After a few years of preparatory was Alan Záruba, a prominent graphic on the professional installation of the activities and approval hunting, the designer working for renowned TV works. This combination of risk-taking, Department of Art History and Theory, broadcasting companies. His meetings experimentation, and professionalism namely Martina Pachmanová, an art for all MA students from various studios is what the VA program aims at, helping theoretician and former UMPRUM were called Interdisciplinary Dialogues students develop into highly dynamic vice-rector, succeeded in gaining the and their aim was to offer students artists and designers who have a broad accreditation for the post-graduate time and space to discuss their work range of skills to draw on in their future follow up program in English, granted by produced in their respective studios and careers. Apart from curating the end- the Czech Ministry of Education, Sport become familiar with the Czech visual of-semester exhibitions at UMPRUM, and Youth in 2006. It took Alan Záruba, culture scene. Milena also organized other VA group a former VA tutor and graphic designer, exhibitions in or outside of Prague and Hana Smělá, the VA Program Head, Since summer term 2008, the VA (Doubice, Munich, Mikulov). another year to promote VA, address studio was tutored by Milena Dopitová, prominent teachers and lecturers to join a well-established Czech conceptual Milena Dopitová had two assistants. the program, and launch the VA course artist, who followed up on Alan Záruba`s The first one was Conrad Armstrong, in summer 2007. At first, there were only Interdisciplinary Dialogues, and held a visual artist, curator, and language 4 out of 23 UMPRUM studios in which VA special Team Project consultations each and art teacher based in Prague, who students could gain their MFA degree in week. Within these sessions Milena graduated from the Intermedia studio of English, however, throughout the course challenged all VA students to work UMPRUM in 2010. He worked as the VA of the VA program, more and more outside of their comfort zone to develop Assistant from 2011 to 2014 and was VA studios gradually joined VA and now VA work that was both conceptually Tutor for the academic year 2019/2020. students can study and gain their MFA strong and visually compelling. In this The second assistant was Rudolf degree in all 24 of UMPRUM studios. framework, graphic designers tried Matějček, a visual artist, radio dj, art their hand at working with sound, or teacher, and web and graphic designer. Over the years of VA’s existence, painters took on working with video. He graduated from the Intermedia an essential part of the MA curriculum These efforts reached fruition in the Studio in Pilsen and held the position is also group consultations and meetings end-of-semester exhibitions held at the from 2014 to 2016. with the VA tutor. The first VA tutor school, in which an emphasis was put Students Handbook 2020/2021 6
In summer semester 2015 Milena The VA tutor for the academic In academic year 2017/2018 the The VA tutor in the academic year Dopitová applied for the position of year 2016/2017 was Václav Janoščík, position of the VA tutor was held by 2018/2019 was Milan Mikuláštík, a the head of Intermedia Studio at the a prominent Czech curator and Jimena Mendoza, who is a up-and- Czech Prague-based visual artist, Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (AVU), art theoretician, also a teacher of coming Prague-based Mexican visual social and political activist, an influential won the fierce competition, and left philosophy and media theory and artist, a VA graduate from Intermedia curator working in the NTK Gallery the VA program together with Rudolf contemporary art. He temporarily studio, and also a Professor Assistant (and many other smaller institutions), Matějček in June 2016. renamed the former Team Project and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague a member of MINA and GUMA GUAR called it “VA/Very Anxious meetings”. since 2018 (Studio of Sculpture). In her art groups, and a former Professor After a long great period of Milena He offered a radically open format of VA meetings she focused each week Assistant in Supermedia Studio at being the only tutor of the VA program, consultations that followed the needs on a different topic, ranging from body UMPRUM (now transformed to the the concept of VA was amended, so of diverse group of VA students; he art, performance, working in artist Guest Artist Studio). Like his VA instead of having one VA tutor for many aimed at finding a compromise between groups, collectivism, futuristic ideas and predecessors, Milan aimed at making years, since October 2017, the VA tutors practical and theoretical aspects of fine modernism in cinema, visions of new the VA meetings diverse and suitable only stay in the program for usually art education. His intention was to focus societies, archives and museums, and for all VA students from various fields of one academic year. Since then the VA on art “appreciation”, self-awareness, design questions. Apart from bringing interest. He not only gave guided tours tutors have been chosen from amongst critical thinking and even political various readings and books to the VA of Prague`s remarkable architecture, Prague-based curators, activists, visual issues with the emphasis on exhibition meetings, Jimena guided students dived into the political and historical artists, and art theoreticians. By having or project-based practice. He offered through big and small Prague galleries, context of the city while walking the two VA tutors during their two-year a broad variety of topics and forms of organized a field trip to Warsaw, Poland, streets of Prague, but he also took studies (3 tutors in three-year studies for education. During the VA meetings, invited guests to meetings, and finally students to many significant Prague- Architecture students), VA students can students read theoretical texts on curated the “Koruna” exhibition in the based museums and galleries. Milan, experience different approaches and various topics and met many guests. City Surfer Office Gallery in Prague 3 as his predecessors, also curated a it’s more likely that the meetings will be At the end of winter semester (January (April 2018). group exhibition of all VA students enjoyable and fitting for all VA students, 2017) Václav also organized and curated (34 students) in HYB4 gallery situated no matter their background. an exhibition Draw Me In in GAMU in Hybernská street in the centre of gallery in Prague 1. Prague (December 2018). 7 Students Handbook 2020/2021 History of the Visual Arts Program
Since the academic year endeavors in the United States. In 2019/2020 the position of the VA tutor addition to this, he is involved with the has been held by Conrad Armstrong. organizing of exhibitions at Villa P651 Conrad is an American artist and in Prague, where he aims to take an teacher who has lived and worked in inclusive and experimental curatorial Prague since 2004. Having initially approach. studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, Conrad earned his In academic year 2019/2020 he MFA degree from the UMPRUM studio curated three VA exhibitions, two in Villa of Intermedia Confrontation in 2010. P651 and one group VA show called In his professional teaching life, he Love Connection in HYB4 Gallery in has worked with a range of ages and Prague 1 (May 2020). Due to the unstable abilities, which included functioning times in coronavirus crisis and because as the VA assistant to Milena Dopitová of his qualities, he is – unlike other VA from 2011 to 2014. His artistic pursuits tutors since 2016 – staying with the VA in painting, drawing, sculpture, and program for one more academic year. performance involve elements of storytelling, exploration of the possibilities of association, and often aim to engage viewers on a playful and inquisitive level. Conrad frequently collaborates with Viktor Valášek as part of the painting duo CONVICT. He has exhibited widely in the Czech Republic and frequently pursues artistic History of the Visual Arts Program Students Handbook 2020/2021 8
1.5 VA GRADUATES There have already been 65 Visual Arts students to graduate from UMPRUM, gaining their MFA degree during the official final commencement in the Church of Saint Anne, Prague. Eight more are to supposed to graduate in November 2020. 9 Students Handbook 2020/2021
Here’s a list of all VA graduates: November 2020 June 2015 Anastasia Filatova (Russia, AIII), Begüm Katharina Rohdin (Sweden, Architecture Erçam (Turkey, Industrial Design), I); Pal Steinar Gumpen (Norway, Sebastián Segura Espinel (Colombia, Intermedia); Timo Hirschmann K.O.V.), Kristin Jermstad Gravdal (Germany, Film and TV Graphics); Yukiko (Norway, AIII), Marie Helen Tite (Canada, Taima (Japan, Illustration and Graphics); Photography), Miyuki Shiotsu (Japan, Tomoko Kumagai (Japan, Supermedia); (Mexico, Painting); Noa Nahari (Israel, K.O.V.), Jonne Väisänen (Finland, Jorge Abraham Garcia Razo (Mexico, Supermedia); Li Xu (China, Graphic Photography), Lok Kiu (Ingrid) Wong Product Design). Design and Visual Communication); Qin (Hongkong, Sculpture) Zou (China, Graphic Design and Visual June 2014 Communication). June 2019 Fanny Rocio Acero Reyes (Colombia, Emel Erdem (Turkey, Glass); Yu-Lin Intermedia); Nelson Fernando June 2011 Huang (Taiwan, Glass); Yea-Eun Jang Echeverria Ruiz (Ecuador, Fashion Luis Guillermo Cerdas (Costa Rica, (Korea, Film and TV Graphics); Ksenija and Footwear); Marko Mikičic Studio of Film and TV Graphics); Mark Markovič (Montenegro, Furniture and (Croatia, Graphic Design and Visual Hale (Turkey, Film and TV Graphics); Interior Design); Ayaka Tajiri (Japan, Communication); Vlada Shamava Luying Huang (China, Glass); Wiley Intermedia); Hsin-Yin Tsai (Taiwan, (Belarus, Graphic Design and Visual Jackson (USA, Glass); David Yule Ceramics and Porcelain). Communication); Qiyuan Zheng (China, (Australia, Glass). Interior and Furniture Design). June 2018 June 2010 Jung-Jiea Hung (Taiwan, Photography). June 2013 Conrad Armstrong (USA, Intermedia Thorarinn Jonsson (Iceland, Sculpture); Art); Kaori Fujita (Japan, Film and TV June 2017 Jana Ivanovska (Macedonia, Textile Graphics); Ine Harrang (Norway, Glass); Miloš Djikanovic (Montenegro, Design); Nurten Erdogan (Turkey, Marta Mancusi (Italy, Illustration); Yumiko Architecture III); Celeste Hill (USA, Intermedia); Anej Nuhanovic (Bosnia/ Ono (Japan, Intermedia); Sadie Renwick Intermedia); Rebeka Molnár (Hungary, USA, Sculpture); Akane Hayakawa (Scotland, Intermedia); Karim Talaat Film and TV Graphics); Ping Ping Zhao (Japan, Illustration); Aysegul Cakiroglu (Canada, Intermedia). (China, Glass). (Turkey, Product Design); Grant Conboy (USA, Painting); Akira Otsubo (Japan, June 2009 June 2016 Photography); Roberto Lucio Fuentes Carolyn Agis (USA, Film and TV Asawari Niteen Bhagwat (India, Interior Rangel (Mexico, Painting); Qing Mei Graphics); Christian Bulmahn and Furniture Design); Piyakorn Xing (China, Typography); Zhichao Zhu (Germany, Graphic Design and Visual Chaverapundech (Thailand, Graphic (China, Film and TV Design). Communication); Cigdem Cevrim Design and Visual Communication); (Turkey, Typography); Matěj Hlaváček Saki Matsumoto (Japan, Illustration June 2012 (Czech Republic, Typography); Atsushi and Graphics); Jimena Mendoza Hwan Bang (Korea, Film and TV Makino (Japan, Film and TV Graphics); (Mexico, Intermedia); Urvi Sethna (India, Graphics); Himanshu Choudhary Kateřina Šachová (Czech Republic, Intermedia); Alison Freedman (USA, Film (India, Photography); Takeshi Ito Illustration and Graphics); Winnie Tan and TV Graphics). (Japan, Glass); Giselle Olguín Jiménez (Singapore, Typography). Students Handbook 2020/2021 10
2.1 VA SCHEDULE FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2020/2021 Note: If you want to go for longer The academic year starts 5th October 2020 and finishes 30th June 2021. holidays during the academic year, the best time is between the end of In the winter semester 2020, all classes, seminars and workshops start 5th December and mid-January (from 22nd October and finish 22nd December 2019; in the spring semester 2021 they December 2020 to 24th January 2021 when you have to be back to install your begin 22nd February and end 7th May 2021. The time from 22nd December end-of-semester work), and – if you have finished all your exams – between the to 24th January and from 7th May to 30th May is a period for preparation of beginning and end February (from 4th the end-of-semester work, which has to be installed on 25th January (winter February to 21st February 2021). The academic year officially finishes the end semester) and 31st May (spring semester). of June, however, all first-year students Diploma, i.e. second-year students (third-year Architecture students), don’t can leave – if they have taken all their exams – after the de-installation of their have to present their end-of-semester work for the winter semester 2020 in end-of-semester work in their studio, which should be after 9th June 2021. January 2021 (they present half of their thesis instead) and they don´t have to attend any classes and workshops in the spring semester 2021. They solely focus on their thesis and diploma project. There’s no need to come before 4th October or do anything special like signing up for classes, picking up your student card or paying for the semester. Everything can be done the first week of October. 11 Students Handbook 2020/2021
5th Oct Beginning of winter semester, some members from the Department of studies (the questions/topics can be 1st—3rd Jun Evaluation of klauzuras Meeting with the VA Coordinator – a Art Theory (e.g. if you’re from Intermedia found on the intranet) / your end-of-semester projects – 15 chance to learn about the VA schedule, Studio, you belong to Fine Arts Depart- minutes’ presentation of your final work important dates in the academic cal- ment, and the jury will comprise teachers 2nd—5th Apr Easter holidays – for the semester in your studio endar, life in Prague (student/ISIC card, / assistants from Photography, Painting, school closed schedule, etc.), and to tour the Academy Guest Artist Program, and Sculpture) 3rd Jun Klauzura Show Opening – + Lectures and consultations start DIPLOMA STUDENTS if situation allows 28th Jan, 7pm Klauzura Show Opening 30th Apr Deadline for official con- 7th Oct First consultation with the VA – if situation allows sultation/presentation of your diploma 4th Jun—30th Jun Examination period Tutor Conrad Armstrong — an opportunity project with/before the members of the to meet all VA students (first-year, second- 29th Jan—3rd Feb Klauzura exhibition; department your studio belongs to 4th—8th Jun Klauzura exhibition; if year and third-year students) and the VA tutor if possible, open to public in all + Last chance to submit the names of possible, open to public in all UMPRUM UMPRUM studios from from 10am to diploma opponents – this will be done studios from from 10am to 6pm 11th Oct Deadline to sign up for classes 6pm (you will be asked to take turns by the heads of your respective studios (for more details see p.26) in SIS in guarding the studio) 9th Jun De-installation of your (Student Information System) 1st and 8th May Public holidays – klauzura and studio cleaning (If you are a 29th Jan—19th Feb Examination school closed for students (two Satur- first-year student, your summer holidays 10th Oct Doors Open Day – online period (you should pass all obligatory days) can start and last till the first week of exams by 19th Feb) October 2020) 28th Oct Public holiday – school 7th May End of summer semester, closed for one day DIPLOMA STUDENTS i.e. no more lectures and seminars DIPLOMA STUDENTS 1st Feb Registration for the Final State 10th—13th Jun Installation of your DIPLOMA STUDENTS Exams on the theory and history of visual DIPLOMA STUDENTS diploma project in your studio or in a 2nd Nov Deadline for submitting culture + Deadline for submitting 10 17th May Deadline for submitting gallery of your choice your diploma work topic (a filled-in pages of your diploma thesis to the con- your diploma thesis + USB with photos diploma form) to the VA Coordinator sultant of your thesis and the head of of your diploma project; you will have 14th—16th Jun Diploma work and the name of your consultant, i.e. a your studio (the exact date will be fixed to print out two copies: one will go to defense – 30 minutes’ presentation person you consult your thesis with (for by the consultant) the VA Coordinator, and the other one of your diploma project before a more info, see p. 23) has to be placed next to your diploma jury consisting of teachers from the 4th Feb De-installation of your end-of- project during your diploma defence and department your studio belongs to, 22nd Dec End of winter semester, no semester work and studio cleaning the diploma exhibition; your opponent a few members of the Department of Art more theoretical lectures till 22nd February can get an electronic version. The theory and one or two external guests/ 2021; Christmas holidays – school closed 15th—19th Feb School closed due to diploma thesis has to be around 15— renowned professionals in their field for two weeks from 22nd December to 1st the selection process of applicants for 20 pages long (written text in English January BA and MA programs in Czech Language without pictures 1 standard page is 1800 16th Jun, 7pm Graduation Show characters with spaces), accompanying/ Opening – if situation allows 25th Jan Installation of your end-of- 22nd Feb Beginning of spring semes- describing/or being inspired by semester project (called klazura) in your ter, i.e. lectures and consultations start your diploma project; more detailed 17th—23rd Jun Diploma work studio (e.g. in Illustration and Graphics, information on what the thesis should exhibition – open to the public Intermedia, etc.) DIPLOMA STUDENTS look like, see the UMPRUM intranet 25th—26th Feb 29th—30th Jun De-installation of 26th—28th Jan Evaluation of klauzuras / 1st—2nd Mar (only one of these days) 31st May Installation of your your diploma work, studio cleaning your end-of-semester projects – 15 minutes’ State Exams on the theory and history end-of-semester project / klazura in presentation of your final work in your studio of visual culture: an oral exam on some your studio (e.g.in Film and TV Graphics, 28th Jun Graduation commencement before a jury consisting of the members of the obligatory subjects you’ve taken Photography, etc.) of the department you belong to and during the three semesters of your VA
3.1 VISUAL ARTS CURRICULA CONSULTATIONS, LECTURES, SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS First-year students (second-year klauzura. In the spring semester 2021, Architecture students) i.e. from 22nd February to 7th May, you Each semester, i.e. from 5th October don’t have to attend any classes and to 22nd December, and from 22nd workshops, you can focus on finishing February to 7th May, you have to your thesis and diploma project. regularly attend first, consultations in your studio (e.g. Type Design and There’s no need to sign up for the Typography, Intermedia, etc.), second, courses before 5th October 2020. VA meetings in the VA room, third, three obligatory lectures, and forth, at least one elective seminar or workshop. Diploma students (i.e. second-year students + third-year architecture students) In the winter semester 2020, i.e. from 5th October to 22th December, you have to regularly attend first, consultations in your studio (e.g. Type Design and Typography, Intermedia, etc.), second, VA meetings in the VA room, third, two obligatory lectures, and forth, at least one elective seminar or workshop. You don’t have to present your end-of-semester work for winter semester in January 2020; you present half of your thesis instead of the Students Handbook 2020/2021 13
3.1.1 CONSULTATIONS At UMPRUM, you can obtain credits by attending: Consultations (mandatory) Studio Consultations VA Meetings Once or twice a week, usually on Once a week. Obligatory for all students. students a broad variety of topics and Mondays and Thursdays. Obligatory for VA Tutor for Academic Year 2020/2021 – forms of engagement: the meetings all students. Conrad Armstrong usually involve group discussions on various topics (brought by the tutor or Attendance and work in the studio Group VA meetings are an open the students), student presentations, VA students are accepted to (e.g. space for VA students to generate new screenings, tours, guest visits, visits to Sculpture, Painting, Illustration and opportunities through collaboration various Prague museums, galleries, and Graphics, etc.) is the most important and sharing of experiences, ideas institutions, and last but not least, field part of the VA curricula. Your studio is and knowledge. They are designed trips outside of Prague. The tutor also the place where you are expected to for all first-year and second-year (or curates a group VA exhibition which is spend most of your time, discuss with third-year) Visual Arts students from held once an academic year in Prague. your fellow Czech and international all studios and cultural backgrounds students, consult your work in progress to come, share and learn together. With Conrad Armstrong as the VA with your studio heads during regular Thanks to the vibrant environment and tutor, the regular VA meetings first and consultations, work on semestral communication during these group foremost aim to create opportunities assignments, install your end-of- meetings, all VA students can test their for students to benefit from the diverse semester project called “klauzura” both own critical thinking, opinions and views, abilities and perspectives of their in winter and spring semesters (January, find different perspectives about their colleagues. The meetings will consist of June) and present it in front of a jury. own work, and with the help of others, guest speakers, visits to sites of interest, shape and pursue their projects in new workshops, and team projects (including Note: The semester work (i.e. work on mi- and interesting ways. The meetings, exhibitions). This varied program aims nor assignments and your attendance of group activities and exhibitions are to provide a shared experience that will consultations) is assessed by the heads of organized by a VA tutor who provides complement each individual’s creative the studio, and the klauzura project is eval- students with both theoretical and practice and collaborative abilities. uated and graded by the summoned jury. practical assistance. All VA tutors offer 14 Students Handbook 2020/2021 Visual Arts Curricula
3.1.2 LECTURES AND SEMINARS At UMPRUM, you can obtain credits by attending: Consultations (mandatory) First-year students and second-year architecture students are expected + to attend regularly at least 3 lectures each semester. First of all, you need to Lectures (mandatory) sign up for the classes which are marked obligatory or recommended for your studio/department, and only then are you free to choose other classes from the list. If you attend more lectures per semester than is necessary for your credit score, you can save the extra credits for the following semesters. Diploma students (second-year students + third-year architecture students) have to attend two more 2 obligatory lectures in winter semester 2020 (if you have attended 6 lectures in the previous academic year). The total number of obligatory theoretical lectures you have to attend in 3 semesters of your two-year studies is 8 (10 for Architecture students in 5 semesters of their three-year studies). For more info, see the Study Plans Section on the Intranet. Visual Arts Curricula Students Handbook 2020/2021 15
Architecture of the 20th Century I, II Contemporary Czech Art I, II, III of visual communication ranging from Contemporary Philosophy (Michaela Janečková – Jehlíková (Zuzana Štefková) illustration, calligraphy, metal type, typo (Václav Janoščík) Obligatory for students of Architecture Obligatory for students from Fine photo to digital type and corporate Obligatory for all VA students. (AI - AIV) and Design Department Arts Department (Sculpture, Painting, identity. In light of the theories and (Product, Industrial and Furniture and Intermedia, Photography I, Guest Artist themes discussed in the winter term, Once a week, spring semester. Interior Design Studios). Program). a historical approach named The Chapters from GD History is preceded The one-semester course will outline Once a week, winter and spring Once a week, winter and spring by the best known examples in the the conditions of contemporary thinking semester. semester. 20th century. and engage its diverse forms within the dynamic rhythm of current global The course concept is based on This three-semester seminar seeks problems and artistic or pop-cultural exploring the architects´ practise to acquaint VA students with different examples. The topics will range from through their writing on architecture. approaches and strategies of History of Design of 20th Century I, II contemporariness as a philosophical Reading accompanied by discussing contemporary art and introduce a wide (Veronika Rollová) problem in itself, the philosophy of the content and looking for related range of figures operating within the Obligatory for students of Architecture, the 19th and 20th century and their buildings, projects or drawings of the Czech and international contemporary Design and Applied Arts Department role in contemporary thinking. A broad architects will be the strategy tested. art scene. This will be done by means of (AI - AIV; Product, Industrial and Interior scope of current philosophies, such as Through readings and building, topics direct contact and exploration of Prague and Furniture Design; Glass, Ceramics speculative realism, object-oriented essential for the second half of the galleries and the cities’ exteriors. The and Porcelain, K.O.V., Textile Design, ontology and new materialism will also 20th century should be touched - choice of the sites of interest will reflect Fashion and Footwear Design). be discussed. The seminar will involve modernity, postmodernity, historicism, the current offer of the local art scene. non-extensive reading of principal deconstructivism or phenomenology in The course participants are expected Once a week, winter and spring texts with the emphasis on discussion architecture. The course doesn´t require to respond to selected works of art semester. and links with both the contemporary any previous experience or knowledge and curatorial concepts based on art world and the practice of students of architectural theory. Czech their direct exposure to and personal The two-semester course will introduce themselves. architecture will be included through experience with the works. VA students to the history of design and guided tours and guest lectures. cover all the topics required for the final state exam. It is focused on both the Czech (Czechoslovak) and international Ancient Philosophy Architecture of the 21st Century I, II Graphic Design in Context I, II design in a broader context of art, (Václav Janoščík) (Igor Kovačevič) (Alan Záruba) architecture and historical development. Obligatory for all VA students. Obligatory for students of Architecture Obligatory for students from Graphic The topics of the lectures will range (AI - AIV) and Design Department Design Department (Graphic Design, from the definition of design, applied art, Once a week, winter semester. (Product, Industrial and Furniture and Illustration and Graphics, Typography, design, to Cubism and Art-Deco, early Interior Design Studios). Film and TV Graphics, Photography II). Modernism, Functionalism and Avant- Rather than dealing with specific Garde design, design and propaganda, theories and works by main A series of lectures, four or five times in Every other week, winter and summer to design and WWII, organic design and philosophers, the one-semester winter and spring semester semester. development of plastics, legacy of the course will address broader topics of Bauhaus, design and World Exhibitions, ancient thinking, for example myth, The lecture series provides a basic The two-semester Graphic Design Czech glass, design and the Cold War, agency, public sphere, metaphorical overview of the key theoretical seminar offers selected topics from Space-Age design, Postmodernism, thinking, tragedy or the concept of concepts, the basic development thetypology of the subject in the winter and last but not least contemporary empathy. The course will try to grasp trends and creative approaches in term and historical milestones from design. ancient philosophy as a necessary contemporary architecture. The political Graphic Design history in the summer preconception of our modern and economic context underlying term. The Typology part explores the thinking and make it an alternative to architecture will also be presented. main features, themes and concepts contemporary philosophy. In such train
of thought, audiovisual examples from Czech Art in International Context I, II Introduction to Art History I, II Computational Design popular culture comparing them with (Jan Wollner) (Jitka Šosová) (Shota Tsikoliya) the concepts of myth, tragedy, heroism, Obligatory for students from the Obligatory for students from the Obligatory for students from the narrative or empathy will be used. Main Department of Fine Arts, Graphics and Department of Fine Arts, Graphics and Department of Architecture (AI-AIV). popular culture sources will be films Applied Arts (Intermedia, Photography, Applied Arts (Intermedia, Photography, such as Blade Runner, True Detective, Sculpture, Painting, Guest Artist Sculpture, Painting, Guest Artist Once week, winter semester. Matrix, MacGyver, etc. Studio, Graphic Design, Illustration Studio, Graphic Design, Illustration and Graphics, Typography, Film and and Graphics, Typography, Film and The Computational Design seminar TV Graphics, Photography II, Glass, TV Graphics, Photography II, Glass, investigates fundamental changes Ceramics and Porcelain, K.O.V., Textile Ceramics and Porcelain, K.O.V., Textile brought to the field of architecture Acoustics in Architecture Design, Fashion and Footwear Design). Design, Fashion and Footwear Design). and design by the introduction of the (Karel Šnajdr) digital tools. Computer-aided design Obligatory for students from the Once a week, winter and spring Once a week, winter and spring and computer-aided manufacturing Department of Architecture. semester. semester. have become a new mainstream and are followed by new generative and Once a week, spring semester. The two-semester course will trace the The class is aimed to introduce students computational approaches, interactive main chapters of Czech modern art to basic concepts of visual art and systems and artificial intelligence. The In this one-semester course students in a broader international context and visuality in general. In course of two changes brought by the new digital will learn the basic laws of physics in the explain how political history and artistic semesters, topics touched upon by paradigm are not only of a technical field of acoustics with special focus on development are interrelated. At the artists in multiple historical eras will be nature, related to the understanding building acoustics, noise protection and same time, it will prepare VA students explored. Despite modern art being the and knowledge of the new tools and room acoustics. Students will grasp the for their final state exams. The series will main focus, students will learn about techniques, but also of the acceptance importance of acoustics in architecture follow the major movements and leading historic roots of a number of key concepts of a different mode of thinking about and understand how to avoid design personalities in a rather traditional and should be able to develop a contextual the nature of design itself. The course mistakes that aggravate the acoustic chronology but at the same time, the thinking about their own practice. will provide a theoretical foundation qualities of a building/room of diverse traditional and canonical interpretation to the field of computational design. functions. The course will not only focus will be partly deconstructed by Through the analysis of various projects, on the way sound travels through air or references to marginal events and The Czechoslovakian Book participants will discuss new chances structure (wave qualities propagation, figures of visual culture. The topics (Jan Čumlivski) and challenges brought by this new reflection, diffraction, absorption, covered will include Czech art at the Obligatory for students from Graphics paradigm. diffusion, etc.), human noise perception turn of the century, Symbolism, Abstract Department (Graphic Design, Illustration and measurement of noise, acoustic Art, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, and Graphics, Typography, Film and TV parameters of constructions (acoustic Suprematism, Surrealism, Bauhaus, Graphics, Photography II) absorption, airborne sound insulation, art under totalitarian regimes, Socialist Generative Design I, II impact noise insulation and reduction of Realism, Informel, Constructivism, New Series of lectures in winter semester. (Shota Tsikoliya) vibrations), or room acoustics properties Figuration, visual poetry, happenings, Obligatory for students from the and the regulations governing the and Postmodernism. Theoretical The one-semester series of lectures Department of Architecture (AI-AIV). acceptable noise levels in architecture classroom lectures will be accompanied will introduce students to the history and requirements for acoustic by visits to permanent collections of the of book design in Czechoslovakia from Once week, winter and spring semester. properties of building structures, but it National Gallery in Prague. 1918 to the early 1990’s. The course will also showcase examples of good will focus on the evolution of book Computational technologies and and bad acoustics in architecture and typography and illustration, on its main digitalization of architectural tools have show how the bad examples can be authors and designers and also the had a great impact on architectural improved or fixed. influence of politics and ideology on practice. The two-semester subject offers the means of design. students an introduction to new fields of generative design and computational
design, an overview of existing digital Legislation in Architecture designing, realization, and restoration), Experimental Music – Listening to platforms and a thorough experience (Martin Pospíšil, Faculty of Architecture, the effects of the local environment Sounds and the Present with visual and classical programming Czech Technical University) (moisture, deterioration), the relationship (Pavel Klusák) languages Grasshopper and Python. In Obligatory for the students from the between the structures and architecture, Obligatory for students from the Fine the first semester students will learn the Department of Architecture historical development and the heritage Arts Department. basics of working with Grasshopper and preservation. The theoretical lectures Python in Rhinoceros 5.0 program and Once a week, winter or spring semester. will be accompanied by a field trip to A series of lectures in winter or spring try out various methods of computational spaces and buildings which are closed semester. designing. In the second semester The series of lectures is aimed to general public where the construction students will explore specific applications at acquainting students with the issues will be demonstrated and Alternatives, experimental music, forms of computational methods when constitutional system, the Building Act, explained in relation to architecture, of independence and subversion, designing a product and architecture, and their broader legal context. The national heritage preservation between concert, performance and simulation of static and dynamic features lectures will additionally cover provisions values and historical development. sound art; the series of lectures deals and the basics of digital fabrication. related to construction, heritage Vaulting tectonics will be shown in the with progressive music in over the past preservation, and the competencies documentation of the building. After fifty years and mainly focuses on the and duties of professionals according to taking the course, students should topics such as minimalism, various Introduction to the History of Czech the Building Act (including the activities be able to recognize various types of forms of improvisation, noise, silence, Glass and Basic Glass Techniques of authorized personnel, other regulated load-bearing structures, use the basic sound of the real world, sampling and (Vendulka Prchalová) individuals, and authorized inspectors). terminology and understand technical conceptual music, copyright versus Obligatory for students from the The lectures will also introduce students qualities of historical materials (durability, creativity, and digital as a metaphor. The Department of Design and Applied Arts. to the system of legal conditions for the and mechanical, thermic, chemical and aim of the series is not only to make independent pursuit of the architectural physical properties). students familiar with distinctive styles Series of lectures five times in spring profession and teach them what their and prominent people, but also to semester. responsibilities for the design of a offer them new ways of listening to and building or a structure are. perceiving the world in general. Listening The intensive course – consisting Urbanism, the Theory and the City to music and watching short videos will of a series of theoretical lectures (Jana Moravcová) be an essential part of the lectures. accompanied by field trips to museums Obligatory for students from the of glass design and glassworks out Historic Load-Bearing Structures and Department of Architecture and Design. of Prague – will introduce the long Their Tectonics Chapters from the History of tradition and history of glass-making (Jan Vinař) A series of lectures in winter or spring Typography in Bohemia. In theoretical lectures, Obligatory for students from the semester. (Otokar Karlas) students will learn the basic principles Department of Architecture. Obligatory for students from the of glass-making, the materials and In this course, students will focus on Department of Graphics (Graphic technologies used, and the history A series of lectures in winter and spring the expectations, principals, needs and Design, Illustration and Graphics, of glass and European glass design; semesters. parameters of urban and landscape Typography, Film and TV Graphics, during field trips, they will be able to design discussed within the Prague City Photography II). see examples of various styles in glass The course will introduce basic types of region. They can practice their future design in Prague museums (UPM, load-bearing structures (log, timbered roles, processes and responsibilities of Every other week, spring semester. Portheimka), and watch glass workers and brick walls, frames, vaults, arches, an urban architect within a competition at work, melting, blowing, shaping and foundations), the materials they are design and experimental representation The seminar will showcase the work cutting glass in glass design companies built of (wood, bricks, stones, masonry, of urban/land space. Regular theoretical of renowned Czech type designers of (Nový Bor, Železný Brod). During a one- metal, clay, mud), their functions lectures and seminars will be the 20th century (Vojtěch Preissig, V. day workshop, they will try their hand (bearing, thermal and safety properties, accompanied by visits to several Prague H. Brunner, František Kysela, František at glass making in one of the smaller architectural function), various architecture offices and team work on Muzika, Karel Teige, Ladislav Sutnar, glassworks in Prague (Ateliér Z in Letná). construction systems (their principles, practical assignments. František Štorm, etc.) and typographers
from all over the world (Edward – the place and specific genius loci Johnston, Eric Gill, Rudolf Koch, Jan of the city of Prague. The lectures Tschichold, Hermann Zapf, Adrian and walks will focus on historical Frutiger, Herbert Lubalin, Neville Brody, architecture buildings, mainly Gothic etc.). Special attention will be paid to and Baroque, and 20th century significant 20th Century type designs architecture, with a lot of examples of and type foundries (Berthold, Monotype, modernist, functionalist, and cubist Linotype, Adobe, HTF, 1. Střešovická architecture designed by Bruno Paul, písmolijna). Jan Kotěra, Adolf Loos, Josef Gočár, Josef Chochol, etc. Contemporary visual culture – ranging from painting, to Typography for Graphic Designers sculpture, to new media experiments – (Filip Blažek) related to the places students visit will Obligatory for students from the Graphic also be discussed. Design Studios and Type Design and Typography. Introduction to Feminist and Queer A series of lectures five times a Theory in Contemporary Art semester, spring semester. (Zuzana Štefková) Elective course, recommended to Fine This one-semester course will focus on Arts students. understanding and practical application of typography rules in every-day graphic Once a week in Celetná 20 (Charles designer`s practice. Students will learn University), spring semester. the key rules of typesetting and more general typography issues in books, The course seeks to introduce students magazines or on websites. Emphasis will to the richness and diversity of feminist be placed on the usage of page layout, and queer theory in relation to a vast paragraph, character and object styles array of examples of contemporary and other tools applied in InDesign art. The course will combine lecture and other programs. The course will format with reading and interpretation of also teach students how to work with selected theoretical texts dealing with typefaces: the choice of fonts and their a broad variety of topics ranging from combinations, buying fonts, etc. identity, embodiment, race, sexuality, post-colonial condition, authorship, institutional critique, to spectacle and Genius Loci of Prague gaze, among others. Students will be (Milan Mikuláštík) encouraged to analyse ideological Elective course, recommended to inscriptions and the effects of the sex/ Architecture and Design students. gender system and heteronormativity and invited to challenge the related Series of guided tours of Prague`s overlapping, and contradictory systems architecture in spring semester. of power that shape our lives and political options. This course will cover various topics which all have one thing in common To be continued…
3.1.3 ELECTIVE WORKSHOPS At UMPRUM, you can obtain credits by attending: Consultations (mandatory) You have to sign up for only one elective class + each semester, however, if you’re interested in more Lectures (mandatory) of them, you are free to take as many electives as + you want. Electives 20 Students Handbook 2020/2021
The following five electives are held Czech Modern and Contemporary Art The following 13 electives are held each semester: (Zuzana Bauerová, Věra Borozan) upon request: they are mostly series of Once a week, winter and spring sessions four or five times a semester. Bookbinding and Book and Paper semesters. If there are enough students (at least Restoration 3) who are interested in taking the (Jan Hybner, Vladimíra Šturmová) Excursions to art galleries and workshops below, you need to ask the Once a week, winter and spring museums lead by visiting lecturers are VA Coordinator to organize them. semesters. focused on both Czech art history and old architecture and contemporary art Capacity limited to 8 students per The bookbinding workshop teaches and modern architecture as well. semester: VA students the basics of bookbinding Painting Course (eight popular types of brochures and Photography Workshop hang-up bookbinding with solid covers Basics of Animation (V1-V8 types) and a Japanese Yotsume Art Law Toji — style bookbinding. A follow-up (Iva Javorská) Capacity limited to 4 students per course held in the second semester semester: focuses on book and paper restoration. The series of lectures and seminars Clay Modelling on Art Law will prepare you for your Presentation Skills artistic practice, relationships with Basics of Lithography producers, clients, galleries etc., and Basics of Print-Making Techniques Drawing Course help you understand copyright, licenses, Jewellery Workshop (Libor Kaláb) contracts for work, the difference 3D Cutting and Model Making Once a week, winter and spring between inspiration and plagiarism and Workshop semesters. teach you how to negotiate conditions Silk Screen Workshop of cooperation and how to react to Ceramics Workshop The course is intended for anybody who copyright infringement. Letter-print Workshop wants to improve their perception of Glass Workshop (Glass Casting and reality, try various drawing techniques Painting) and compare their work with others. The course mainly focuses on live drawing Field Trips of a human figure from observation of a Two-day trip/workshop in winter or/and live model (the models are nude, both spring semester. male and female), but it’s also possible to choose different themes for drawing (architecture drawing, still-life, etc.). Czech Language for Foreigners I, II, III (Gabriela Novotná) Beginners and Advanced Learners Once a week, winter and spring semesters.
3.2 VA CREDIT SCHEME ECTS stands for European Credit Transfer System. 60 ECTS credits represent a full academic year of study at undergraduate level and 30 ECTS credits and more normally represent one semester. 1 ECTS credit equals 1 credit at UMPRUM. To be able to enroll in the following year of their studies (the second or third year), students must have earned all the credits from obligatory classes from the previous academic year by mid-September of the following year. It’s only possible to miss two obligatory classes in one year and transfer them to the following semester; if students don’t have enough credits, they have to repeat the whole academic year again (and pay a reduced tuition again). You can check the number of credits you need to gather each semester in the Study Plans section (you will need your password and username to access it). 22 Students Handbook 2020/2021
To graduate from the Visual Arts program, you must: 1 Attend all obligatory classes 4 Write and defend your diploma 6 Install, present and defend your for your field and gather the required thesis: your diploma thesis should diploma project; your diploma project number of credits (see Study Plans explain or thematically accompany your has to be finished and installed – either section). diploma project; it has to be around 15— in your studio at school or elsewhere – 20 pages long (at least 1800 characters by 13th June and presented/defended × 15—20 in total), A4 format and bound before a jury one day from 14th to with hard covers; the deadline for 16th June; before that, by 30th April, 2 Pass an oral state exam about submitting the first part of the thesis (at your studio should recommend you the history and theory of art – you draw least 10 pages of text) to the consultant an opponent of your diploma project, 2 questions; the 1st question will be of your project is 26th January, the final i.e. somebody external (outside of on the theory of art in general, and the thesis has to be submitted by 17th May UMPRUM) who will write an opponent’s 2nd one will concern the history of the to the VA Coordinator (together with a evaluation paper on your diploma particular discipline you are gaining your USB containing the thesis and photos project; this paper is read at the diploma MFA in (Fine Arts, Design, Applied Arts, of your diploma project); you will have presentation and you cannot defend Architecture, Graphics); you will have 20 to print out two copies: one will go to without it. Your diploma project will be minutes for preparation, and 20 minutes the VA Coordinator, and the other one exhibited, if possible – together with for the presentation of the two topics/ has to be placed next to your diploma other diploma students’ work – from questions before a jury consisting of project during your diploma defense 16th to 23rd June, and you need to take at least 3 experts on the particular and the diploma exhibition; your turns in guarding the exhibition from fields; (the questions/topics can be opponent can get an electronic version; 10am—6pm. Your work has to be de- found on the Intranet (you will need your for more details how to write the thesis, installed by 30th June. The graduation password and username to access it). see the Intranet. commencement will be held 28th June in the Church of St Anne/Prague Note: you have three attempts at Crossroads in Prague 1. passing the final state exam, however, if you happen to fail for the third time, your 5 Present your work-in-progress to studies will unfortunately be terminated. the members of the department your studio belongs to (e.g. Intermedia stu- dents present their work to professors from Sculpture, Intermedia, Painting, 3 Choose a diploma topic by 2nd and Photography) at least once an November and have it approved by the academic year; the assistant professor head of your studio; at the same time, from your studio will inform you when you are required to submit a special di- the official presentation date is. ploma form to the VA Coordinator by the same deadline – the form will be given to you by the Coordinator or you can find it on the Intranet – and find a consultant who you will consult your thesis with (the list of recommended consultants can be also found on intranet). Students Handbook 2020/2021 23
3.3 GRADING SYSTEM AT UMPRU At UMPRUM, we use 4 point grading system, with grade 1 as the best, and 4 as the worst. If you earn grade 1, it means your performance was “excellent” and you got A+, A, and A-. Grade 2 means your performance was “very good”, which is equivalent to grade B+, B, and B- . Grade 3 stands for C+, C, and C- and evaluates your performance as “good”. In case your grade is 4, it means you failed (F) because your performance was “insufficient and unsatisfactory”. In case fail an exam or a state exam, you have two more attempts to pass them. If you get F for your klauzura/ semester work, you have one more attempt to gain the credits for these subjects. However, it´s not only grades you can earn for your klauzuras (end-of- semester projects) and for the work during the semester. The studio and the jury evaluate your work and performance by giving you the following score: 12, 11, 10 points (A+, A, A–, grade 1); 9, 8, 7 (B+, B, B-, grade B), 6, 5, 4 (C+, C, C-, grade C) and 3 – 0 (F, grade 4 or 5). 24 Students Handbook 2020/2021
4.1 OTHER USEFUL INFORMATION Student Cards and ISIC Cards Tuition Fee Payment All VA students are entitled to The deadline for tuition payment receive a student card or ISIC card. is 15th October for winter semester The card will serve as a proof of your and the 29th February for spring student status, give you access to semester. You can either pay in cash special student discounts in museums, (CZK, at the cash desk, room 107) or by galleries, and public transport, and bank transfer (in Czech Crowns) to the enable you to enter the UMPRUM following bank account: building and print in the UMPRUM IT rooms. To see the benefits of having an Bank Details: ISIC card, see: isic.cz/en Bank: Komerční banka, as. (KB), Na Příkopě 33, 110 00 Praha 1 You can get the Student/ISIC card Bank Account No: 19–5599810247/0100 in Celetná 13, Prague 1 IBAN: CZ 1401000000195599810247 Swift Code (BIC): KOMBCZPP Opening Hours: Local Currency Account: CZK Monday 9am—12pm / 12:30pm—6pm (identification code: 701) Friday 9am—12pm / 12:30pm—4pm The VA tuition fee is 79 000 CZK Prices: (approx. 3000 €) per semester; there are Student card 100 CZK two semesters in one academic year. ISIC card 230 CZK Note: All VA students who have to Note: Don’t forget to bring your passport repeat the previous academic year, with you! have to pay the fee by 30th September. Students Handbook 2020/2021 25
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