Video Art – Audiovisual Studio

The Video -Audiovisual Media Lab gives students the opportunity to study and create works using a wide spectrum of means.

Areas of research of the lab are among others the exploration of the material aspect of works created with the contemporary audiovisual media, the embodied experience and the image, the transformation of images into material objects and vice-versa, the pinpointing of the narratives embedded into static artworks and the study of time, the presentation of artworks in the venues where they are to be exhibited, the communication between the audience and the works, the pinpointing of the poetic and visual qualities of the city, and the transformation into visual artworks of the experience cities offer.

On the other hand, given that the contemporary audiovisual media and video art (that first appeared in the mid 1960’s) constitute means of expression that combine contemporary artistic trends, theoretical approaches, and recent technological advances, the courses on offer aim at serving three main goals: 1) to explore the unique formative features of the new media through workshop practice and lectures on assorted subjects and the presentation of the work of selected artists 2) to break down the techniques and the technical potential of the media available, and of the moving images in general, to research on image processing, the impact of sound, on montage and editing of images, etc. 3) to help students use the contemporary audiovisual media and video as means to express themselves with the aim to materialize their artistic intentions and solve issues surfacing during the elaboration of their projects. Special emphasis is given to the means of expression, the methodology of the approach to the goal set, to the development of the project and to the shaping of personal artistic profiles.