Lensbased Art Practice 2

This course continues to build on the introduction from semester 1 to investigate practices from the early stages of photography, its context and materiality. Central are the means of experimentation and economic and scientific components in the history of photography evolving.  
  
In close collaboration with the workshops resources and possibilities this is a practical and practice-oriented course. The course will further explore how processes and instruments, temporal and special perspectives of lense-based approaches in art crucially sparks from the darkroom. From there it hoovers and connects to challenges of representation, refraction and components of the image in various render.  
  
Hands-on production will be highly emphasised. It will further build on the activities of the introductory course and can expand with for example stock photos to satellite images or multispecies approaches for example in an ethical and experimental way.  
  

The student knows and can compare tendencies and selected elements of photographic art and history.  
The student has hands-on knowledge and can develop tools for lens based artistic production.  
The student can produce and present skill-based works that reflect on methods, technique and context.   
The student knows and can apply methods of dissemination of lens-based production inside and outside the academy.  
 

Practical structured exercises, workshops, and individual assignments the course will evolve around the work in the darkroom: developing and printing on various not only analogue and digital materials and through various techniques including for example camera obscura and quantum physics laser technology.  
  
The exercises will involve the classical apparatus, the film and photostudio, light as material and different printing and mapping strategies. This will include collective and individual work, digital and analogue as well as two and three dimensional formats.  
  
With archival practices as a component to the more advanced algorithmical challenges concepts and contexts will be analysed, discussed and physically explored with tasks assignments and fieldtrips backed up from lectures. As the background and necessities of contemporary approaches are in the centre a familiarity to geopolitical and ecological aspects will be expected.
 
This will be engaged in exhibition and exhibition visits, artist talks and fieldtrips as well as assignments and documentation methods.  
  
Formal evaluation by end of course.