Intermedia - Studio Practice INM-MŰTG04
The practice of active art activity. Studio work based on individual creative work and personalized lecturer’s consultation led by the lecturers of the Department and by external lecturers. The practices are part of the studio work as the use of the laboratory and the studio following the students’ programs and tasks.
The point of view of the media artist is characterized by a cognitive – ready to know – artistic behavior. Seeing the fields of science, technology and art as a unit, the media artist is able to use the new mediums in an artistic way and to create a modern, autonomous artistic production which is suitable for the challenges of the 21^st century.
Through the synthetic or analytic use of the different techniques, tools and methods of the artistic expression the media artist creates high-level artistic works, considering the changes of the function of art and the modern, constantly forming social rule of it.

How to create Works of Art INM-MŰKÉ04
In this studio program we analyze both well known and less familiar art works as well the practices and ideas that are part of their creative processes; additionally, these discussions become part of a critique of the work of the participating students.
Alongside these discussions and critiques there are creative and practical exercises as well based on a simple 4 semesters structure. From drawing to video we analyse artworks with the help of radical interpretation. This course aims in the first semester the establishment of objective and critical attention, in the second semester we deal with dramaturgical questions, in the third and fourth we focus on the image-making processes.
The final outcome of the studio program is an exhibition of the creative work of the students in a venue decided and developed by the students.

Selected Readings

• Griselda Pollack - Thinking sociologically: thinking aesthetically. Between convergence and difference with some historical reflections on sociology and art history.
• Liam Gilleck - Contemporary art does not account for that which is taking place.
• Paul Klee - Pedagogical Sketchbook.
• Barbara Fässler - 177 days of running: Reflections on the Venice Biennale 2011.
• Boris Groys - The Obligation to Self-Design.
• Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Oskar Schlemmer, Farkas Molnar - The Theatre of the Bauhaus.

Site specific art work and interventions in public space INM-SISP01
Sites for the exhibition of art work have continued to move beyond the traditional places of the museum, gallery or public square. In addition, exhibitions themselves have also evolved into site specific public art events: whether as regular spectacles like the Venice Biennale, Documenta or installations by a museum such as the Tate Modern.
The seminar is a survey of the evolution of the different interdisciplinary art practices relating to site specific public art projects and interventions which take place within or outside of the traditional museum environments. Focusing on projects specifically conceived as forms of an artistic discourse situated in a variety of public spaces.
The class includes a discussion and analysis of specific projects and art works that have significantly shaped the dimensions of this area of artistic activity. Additionally, students will apply the ideas and issues that evolve from these discussions in the form of practice based projects.

Readings to include selections from the following:

• Benjamin, Walter. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, in Illuminations, edited by Hannah Arendt, Schocken Books, 1969
• Crimp, Douglas. “Redefining Site Specificity” in On the Museum in Ruins (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993) pp. 150-186 ISBN-10: 0-262-53126-7
• Deutsche, Rosalyn. “Tilted Arc and the Uses of Democracy” in Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996) pp. 257-268 ISBN-10: 0-262-04158-8
• Kluge, Alexander and Negt, Oskar. “The Public Sphere of Monuments - the Public Sphere and Historical Consciousness” in The Public Sphere and Experience (currently out of print)
• Kwon, Miwon. One Place after Another: Notes on Site Specificity Author(s) in October, Vol. 80 (Spring, 1997), pp. 85-110
• Marchart, Oliver. “Some basic observations on the difficult relation of public art, urbanism and political theory” in stadtmotiv* 5 Essays on Architecture, City and the Public Sphere(s) Editors: Andreas Lechner & Petra Maierthe (Wien: selene, 1999) ISBN 3-85266-111-0
• Moholy-Nagy, László. “Space is a reality”
• O’Neill, Paul. “Three stages in the art of public participation: The relational, social and durational” in dérive 39 (2010) pp. 1-10
• Tsui, Hilary. “Art interventions as alternative place−making; Urban cultural exchange between Vienna and Hong Kong,” in dérive 33 (2008) pp. 1-5
• Phillips, Patricia. “Creating Democracy: A Dialogue with Krzysztof Wodiczko” in Art Journal, (Winter 2003) pp. 32 – 47

Mapping the local INM-MALO01
The seminar presents an overview of the major phenomena, trends and issues of contemporary art based on various subjects in each semester in the form of presentations held by invited lecturers and field trips to museums, institutions and artist studios.
While offering an insight into the Hungarian contemporary art scene, one of the course's main objectives is to develop personal contacts and cultural interactions between local and visiting students fostering an emerging intercultural dialogue. During the semester, students work in groups in order to realize a collaborative project followed by an exhibition (contents and forms of the final project to be discussed during the seminar).
The course is primarily directed towards Erasmus students as well as local students of the Intermedia and Fine Art Theory and Curatorial Studies departments, but students from other departments are warmly welcome.

Multimedia INM-MULM02
Studying Multimedia helps participants to define a creative approach with technology and media of their own in the process of creating artworks. Participants should have basic knowledge and routine in technical media, in virtualization and visualization, in the use and post-production of digital media. In the framework of Multimedia students become acquainted with making art aided by the computer, to solve problems that traditional mediums unable to solve.
Following the traditional narrative and dramatic interpretations computer simulations became able to mediate reality. Involving the audience into simulations - the possibility of interactivity - urges the media artist to find more natural ways of communication between human and machine. As the 3D perspectival representation of the physical world helps the process of perceptual reception, new developments enable us to use CGI, interactivity, photogrammetry, game peripheries, virtual spaces in art making. During the lectures several approaches and practices are demonstrated: optical and electronic scanners, lens correction, digital cameras, Microsoft Kinect, exercises in working under diverse light conditions, in- and outdoor environments, object or surround orientations of scanning. Visual engines like WebGL, OpenGL help reviewing the recorded material, or publishing them either to the WEB or offline for local installations

Interface and interactivity INM-INFI02
The aim of the course is to teach the students the theoretical and practical foundations of designing and implementing interactive applications. Within the curriculum students have to complete practical exercises parallel with working on their own independent artistic projects. Interface and Interactivity offers a development framework for producing students’ projects requiring special technical solutions (such as interactive installations, complex internet/multimedia applications). Cutting edge inventions, technical solutions can be studied and used by the students to develop their own artistic projects. With the help of the tutors it is mandatory for the participants to develop sophisticated, technically innovative projects on their own. Study prerequisite is a basic understanding and routine in computer-programming (Javascript, Python, Php, Max MSP, Eyesweb etc.).

Course title	Course code		ECTS credits	Hours per week
	Autumn semester	Spring semester
Courses of the Department
Intermedia -Studio Practice	INM-MŰTG03	INM-MŰTG04	3	4
How to Create Works of Art	INM-MŰKÉ03	INM-MŰKÉ04	3	4
Site Specific Art Work and Interventions in Public Space	INM-SISP01	INM-SISP01	5	2
Mapping the Local	INM-MALO01	INM-MALO01	5	2
Multimedia	INM-MULM01	INM-MULM02	4	4
Interface and Interactivity	INM-INFI01	INM-INFI02	4	4
TOTAL ECTS CREDITS			24
Open courses approved by the Department
Hungarian Language	AKB-HUL	AKB-HUL	3	2
Art Theory, Foreign Specialized Text Reading	FEM-MINY01	FEM-MINY02	4	2
Artistic Anatomy and Projection	MAT-ANAT01	MAT-ANAT02	5	4
Theory and Practice in Visual Communication	GRM-TGEV01	GRM-TGEV02	4	2
Drawing in Motion	MAT-DRMO01	GMAT-DRMO02	2	2

OPEN COURSES

Hungarian Language AKB-HUL
Lilian Precskó
Grammar and vocabulary at A1 level (greetings, introduction, countries, colours, numbers, objects, food, dialogues in a restaurant/shop ecc.)

Artistic Anatomy and Projection MAT-ANAT02
Within the framework of the subject we learn the structure of the human body from the aspect of bones, muscles, form and expressiveness and process the drawing issues of space and space depiction. We develop a transparent body image to enhance the awareness of space vision, mass and plasticity. This improves the ability of analyzing and synthetizing to help awareness of depiction. All these enhance the fluency and the information richness of drawing communication. During osteology studies we learn the bone structure of the human body in detail. The form, function and connection of the bones. During the semester we prepare study drawings of all elements of the complete skeleton from as many aspects as possible.
The presentation of the musculoskeletal system through a sequence of lectures and the processing of these through drawings at the same time. Interpretation of the basic space elements and their shadows, leading to complex compositions by drawing.

Theory and Practice in Visual Communication GRM-TGEV02
Although the subject – among others – is dealing with the story of graphic design and – in broader sense – the practice of ’purposeful’ image making, the course offers useful knowledge for students from other domains of the visual arts alike. Graphic design as an applied art form has been witnessing a paradigm shift recently. Initially a service-centered activity, visual communication is getting just as valid means of self expression as any other visual art forms. Its role in the society and the reasons for the constant change in the methods and focuses of pragmatic image making cannot be fully understood without putting some objective determining factors under a closer scrutiny. Through the analysis of the means and aims of different visual strategies students can better understand their own social role and responsibility. The course is aiming to raise students’ consciousness in using the techniques they already can handle. The analyses of an array of different artworks may also play an important role in broadening their visual vocabulary to achieve artistic goals. During the semester the frequent occurrence of in-class dialogues on the selected themes help generate thoughts thus forming the participating students’ critical thinking and their verbal performance.

Mapping the local* INM-MALO01
The seminar presents an overview of the major phenomena, trends and issues of contemporary art based on various subjects in each semester in the form of presentations held by invited lecturers and field trips to museums, institutions and artist studios.
While offering an insight into the Hungarian contemporary art scene, one of the course's main objectives is to develop personal contacts and cultural interactions between local and visiting students fostering an emerging intercultural dialogue. During the semester, students work in groups in order to realize a collaborative project followed by an exhibition (contents and forms of the final project to be discussed during the seminar).
The course is primarily directed towards Erasmus students as well as local students of the Intermedia and Fine Art Theory and Curatorial Studies departments, but students from other departments are warmly welcome.

Site specific art work and interventions in public space^* INM-SISP01
Sites for the exhibition of art work have continued to move beyond the traditional places of the museum, gallery or public square. In addition, exhibitions themselves have also evolved into site specific public art events: whether as regular spectacles like the Venice Biennale, Documenta or installations by a museum such as the Tate Modern.
The seminar is a survey of the evolution of the different interdisciplinary art practices relating to site specific public art projects and interventions which take place within or outside of the traditional museum environments. Focusing on projects specifically conceived as forms of an artistic discourse situated in a variety of public spaces.
The class includes a discussion and analysis of specific projects and art works that have significantly shaped the dimensions of this area of artistic activity. Additionally, students will apply the ideas and issues that evolve from these discussions in the form of practice based projects.