Subject 'Specialty History. Graphic Design. Media Arts.'

Year:   2018/2019    2019/2020    2020/2021    2021/2022    2022/2023    

• Introduction, concepts and terms
• Synthetic developments
• Social interaction of media arts
• Connection between electronic and video arts
• Interactive cinematography
• Reactive environments
• Machine/body/media
• Applied multimedia
• Bioart and transgenetic art
• Birth of the film medium
• Animated angles
• Early feature film
• Period of silent film
• Rise of Hollywood film industry and its consequences
• Cinematography distribution in the world
• National schools of cinematography
• Sound film 1930-1960
• Modern cinema
• Documentary, its evolution and possibilities; observational and intrusive documentary
• Film genres, their birth and evolution
• Contemporary cinema: latest developments
• Digital film environment “mini film”, documentary and monumentalism in modern films
• Invention of letters and their carriers and development in the beginning of the civilisation
• Mesopotamia; Sumer
• Antiques. Script and its carrier in the Hellenistic world and Rome.
• Script and its carriers in the medieval Europe. Invention and evolution of printing
• Books and prints in the early modern Europe. Print formats from the 16th through the 18th centuries
• Evolution of printing and prints from the 18th through the 19th centuries
• Books, prints, printing methods, graphic design from the 19 century to the beginning of the 21th century.

The objective is to explore the change of arts in the crossroads of science, painting, photography, design, cinema, video and electronic communication technologies; provide an overview of the history of the cinema and relate it with the evolution of other art formats. The objective is to introduce students to the history of letters, texts, books, prints and their layouts since the beginning of the civilisation until nowadays; show the logic and reasons behind the evolution of graphic design; why printed works look as they do; introduce the pioneers of graphic design and its most influential representatives.

Upon completion of the course, students will:
1. understand the utilization of technological and electronic instruments in the past and in visual arts;
2. know the subtypes of media arts;
3. know the significant artists and their works in new media;
4. sense media arts as a social influencing mechanism;
5. be able to distinguish the historic periods of cinematography;
6. understand the general objectives and aesthetic principles of cinematography during different periods;
7. be able to analyse the layers of meaning related to directing, cinematography and acting in the film;
8. be able to ground and contextualise their own products in the context of the film history;
9. know the main developmental stages in the local cinematography;
10. have an overview of different film genres (silent film, comedy, western, horror, film noir etc);
11. comprehend the preservation of letters, calligraphy and texts, and the history of books, printing, printing techniques and graphic design;
12. find the connection between print layouts and the corresponding historic background;
13. be able to write a history-related essay.

2019: 2272  

2018: 2272  

2017: 2272