Master’s Studio 1 and 2.

Evaluation of student work is ongoing throughout the semester in the form of verbal feedback. It is optional to invite external experts in the field or other FaVU teachers or other members of the academic community to give in-depth or additional feedback one or several times per semester. At the end of the semester, the work is evaluated by awarding credit. The following conditions are set for the award of credit:

• Regular attendance at classes (75 % attendance) or its compensation in a form determined by individual agreement with the lecturers;
• Active participation in the studio programme beyond the regular studo meetings (mock presentations with external guests, outdoor courses, workshops, lectures, visits to exhibitions, excursions, meetings in the online space, etc.);
• Ongoing work on the Master's project;
• Meaningful use of the material and intellectual background of the studio for work on the master's project;
• Demonstrated interest in contemporary art with interdisciplinary overlap.

Classes take place in the studio space at FaVU, or at other locations according to the current program. Attendance at the class is mandatory (75 % attendance at regular studio meetings is mandatory). If the class includes mock presentations with external guests, outdoor courses, workshops, lectures, visits to exhibitions, excursions, online meetings, etc., attendance at these activities is also mandatory. Higher absences can be compensated for in an individually determined way in agreement with the teachers.

The aim of the course is to provide students with material conditions and a friendly and stimulating environment for artistic development. Through the continuous realization of artistic outputs and their consultation, students are to deepen their ability to think conceptually about their own work, technical skills and theoretical overview, which will allow them to mature into independent and critically thinking creative personalities.

Students will deepen their knowledge and skills that should allow them to mature into independent and critically thinking creative individuals, such as conceptual thinking about their work, technical skills and knowledge of relevant material processes or technological procedures, the ability to verbally articulate their own artistic intentions, the confidence to negotiate their position as an artist, an orientation to relevant theoretical approaches and disciplines, an overview of issues in contemporary art and wider public debate, and the ability to critically evaluate and contextualise their own creative practice.

• Programme VUM_M Master's, 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
  

In the first classes, the agreement between the leaders and the learners establishes:

• the schedule and topics for the semester, including individual and/or collective assignments,
• teaching methods,
• criteria and methods of assessment.

Ongoing throughout the semester:

• individual and/or collective work by students to complete their own creative projects,
• presentation and consultation of partial outputs or work in progress of a larger project collectively and/or individually (as personally agreed between students and supervisors),
• periodic studio meetings, the central focus of which is reflection on the individual and/or group artistic practice of the students, but which may also include discussion of current issues in contemporary art, theory or wider public debate.

The studio programme may also include:

• mock presentations ('critiques') with external guests,,
• outdoor course,
• workshops,
• lectures,
• visits to exhibitions,
• excursions,
• online meetings.

Towards the end of the semester, the studio is adapted to the preparations for the Public Presentation of Semester Works.

The last hours are devoted to recapitulating the past semester and giving feedback on the work of individual students during the semester.