Summer school of video art: critical vision skills - course 98,000 rub. from the British Higher School of Design, training 2 months, date December 3, 2023.

Language of instruction
Russian

Duration
2 months

Form of study
In person

Experimental cinematography, video art, deepfake, installations with digital and analog moving images are a huge segment of art, part of biennales and fairs, and also a way to document art. Living and producing art in the third decade of the 21st century certainly requires the skill of critical vision. Theoretically and practically, select the keys to decipher and detect the seams of video reality.

How to distinguish between documentary and fictional? How to expand the viewer's vision and use immersive technologies? How to manage screen time? And hack the narratives offered by political reality?

The course will help answer these questions, immerse yourself in video art as the main source of reflection reality, and most importantly, through practical examples, it will teach you to distinguish the real from the artificial in modern video context.

As a result of the program, students will prepare a project that combines video art and their own critical research on one of the topics.

The purpose of training: through practice and theory, help students formulate the key methods and problems of video art now, understand how to distinguish between the historical and the critical in video.

Program objectives:

— practice visual research skills (video as it is, and where to borrow it);
— master the principles and mechanism of critical and aesthetic work in the field of video (how to supplement video and enrich it);
— teach practical skills in thinking through, implementing and exhibiting video installations (how to present and present videos).

Who is the program for:

— for practicing artists interested in technology and video art;
- for applicants without experience, but involved in creating digital content (video, motion design, animation, 3D images, UX design, commercial photographers).
The program will help them increase their observational skills, develop the experience of critical and creative viewing, and conscious work with visual content;
- for everyone who intends to develop their creative skills, who is looking for themselves and wants to engage in creative production, criticism in the field of culture.
The program will help them navigate the methods, ways and tools of digital visual art production and the functioning of images.

Training schedule:
2 weekday evenings (19:00 - 22:00) + 1 full day off (11:00 - 18:20), total 16 ac. hours/week. Tuesday Thursday Saturday.