| Study programme | GRAb.14 - Printmaking and Other Media |
| Study | Grade of study - I. - bachelor, study form - full time, study type - Single degree study |
| Document type: | Description of the study programme |
| The name of the university | Academy of Fine Arts and Design Bratislava |
| The seat of the university | Hviezdoslavovo námestie 18, 814 37 Bratislava |
No joint study programme.
The main goal of education in the study programme is artistic creation with a specialisation in printmaking, illustration and drawing works, which includes the creation of an artistic concept, the use of specific printmaking principles, reflecting knowledge of the issue and analysis of the graphic image in art. Based on these skills is the ability to create graphic and illustration works and to interpret and present them. The goal of education is the ability to create an original work as an autonomous attitude of artists and to evaluate their talent. At the time of completion of the study programme, students are able to use a range of skills and create an art artefact.
The result of education is the acquisition of printmaking, illustration and drawing structural principles in various technological procedures. The ability to construct an evident, visible part of the work with selected means of expression and materials, which students organise with different compositional principles, in order to express the content of the work of art through a formal synthesis of material and means of expression and compositional principles. They can also use synonymous terms for the content of a work of art: message, statement, announcement.
At the time of completion of the bachelor's study programme Printmaking and other media in the field of study Art - students have practical and theoretical knowledge and skills in the field of printmaking, drawing and illustration based on knowledge of the history and current state of art, which they are able to use creatively in independent artistic activity or in continuation in subsequent university studies. Through education, they acquire drawing skills (capturing reality, stylisation in drawing, drawing symbols) and printmaking skills (letterpress, gravure printing, flat printing, vector and bitmap graphics). Graduates of the bachelor's degree programme will acquire expert knowledge of creating an image using printmaking methods in terms of technology (classical and digital) but also in terms of the inherent structure of image creation (building on a drawing/line, the issue of image reproduction, layering). They master the procedures and means of mimetic representation of reality in the media of drawing, printmaking, illustrations, the principles of the creation of an artistic statement and of the functioning of an artistic symbol. They have adequate knowledge of technological processes and creative materials, they know traditional and innovative printmaking techniques, digital media and computer programs for image processing.
Main education outcomes:
Bachelor's degree graduates are able to create works of art using printmaking and illustration techniques, drawing and digital graphics. They have artistic and technological knowledge in the field of printmaking, illustration and drawing. Graduates of bachelor's degree have the skills to conceptually create small-scale artworks on their own within the space of their own creative art projects in the field of graphic analog and digital media. They have the professional skills to create an artistic unit - cycle - exhibition, but also to realise illustrations on an artistic and technical basis at the same time. They can create and use the entire range of techno-logical and logic-technical procedures and media arising from the content of the study programme. Through their creative work, they participate in the formation and development of culture. Graduates are able to creatively use a wide range of technical and technological tools and devices, from analog to digital. They are able to work independently with technological tools and are constantly learning about them as part of their artistic focus.
Graduates are able to work with a wide range of professional illustration and printmaking partners – book and magazine publishers, advertising agencies, graphic and product studios, editorial illustration, creative industries with a focus on online, web, gaming. They can also act as lecturers, managers of artistic start-ups, workshops, galleries, or other cultural and artistic institutions. Of course, there is also an independent artistic and presentation activity - creative work.
Graduates have the qualification for employment in a wide range of artistic and cultural operations on the local and foreign scene, in public or private organisations. They can work as independent visual artists with exhibition practice, members of creative art teams, in gallery pedagogy, lecturing activities and lifelong learning, as experts in cultural institutions (galleries, museums, theatres, cultural and creative centres), workers in local self-government (departments of culture, education, popularisation of culture, cultural institutions abroad), creative workers in industrial and other commercial operations (advertising and marketing agencies, creative production in the creative industry). Graduates can be in positions in the creative industry, or as freelance visual artists.
According to the obtained information, the employability of our graduates is very good. Some graduates have permanent employment according to the structure mentioned in Article 1. b.), some combine part-time employment with individual artistic practice, and a smaller part of graduates is dedicated exclusively to their own artistic creation.
publishing houses IKAR, Slovart, ARTFORUM, KUBO media, PIXEL Federation, ESCAPE Motions, Bibiana, Slniečko, Denník N
- They are prepared both creatively and technologically for independent work in the field of printmaking and illustration as part of independent creative work.
- They have all the qualifications to maintain contact with developments in their discipline, to take and present positions in the field of culture and to organise their further professional growth.
- Bachelor's degree graduates can continue, after successfully passing the admission exams, in a master's degree in a subsequent or related study programme.
- After obtaining the bachelor's degree, they can develop their professional artistic growth in a subsequent or related master's study programme.
Svätopluk Mikyta's (1973) work is concentrated for a long time primarily in three media areas - autonomous drawing, drawing comments of found images, printmaking, and their expansions in the medium of a museum-type installation. He is the laureate of the Oskár Čepan Award for 2008, the initiator of the civic association Štokovec, and the cultural platform Banská St a nica Contemporary in Banská Štiavnica.
The uniqueness of his work lies in several phenomena, while the archeology of the aesthetics of the modern history of Slovakia in the European contexts of the 20th century and the mapping of the traces of its cultural transformation and of course the thematization of collective memory come to the fore. (Alena Vrbanová)
http://artbase.kunsthallebratislava.sk/umelec/6681
http://galeria-nova.sk/portfolio_page/svatopluk-mikyta/
http://www.banskastanica.sk/edition/d/autori/svatopluk_mikyta
https://www.ssgbb.sk/vystava/pripraváme-svatopluk-mikyta-kolaps-lapsus-i/
Juraj Poliak painter, illustrator, theatre and stage designer, teacher
He graduated from the AFAD in Bratislava, majoring in free colour printmaking. During his studies, he participated in study stays in France in Saint Étienne and in Thessaloniki, Greece. In addition, he completed a creative residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. He works on experimental printmaking using own author's technique, computer graphics and installations. As a graphic designer, he cooperates with galleries (Považská art gallery in Žilina or Stredoslovenská galéria in Banská Bystrica) and museums (Museum of coins and medals in Kremnica), and has produced a large number of catalogues and publications for them. The products of his collaboration with puppet theatres (Žilina, Banská Bystrica) also have a special author's graphic visual. Juraj Poliak's free graphic work is mainly known for his printmaking works / objects created using books. J. Poliak's experimental printmaking and installations were exhibited at many events in Slovakia and abroad (Saint Étienne, Budapest, Krakow, Nuremberg, Białsko-Biala, Györ, Graz). One of the author's greatest achievements is the Grand Prix award for the work Image and Reflection from the Graphics Triennale in Győr, Hungary. One of his works is also owned by the Washington National Library. Juraj Poliak lives and works in Žilina - Budatín.
https://rosenfeldovpalac.sk/z-atelieru-juraj-poliak/
Martin Derner, born in 1973 in Košice. He is a graphic designer who graduated from the AFAD in Bratislava. Since 2005, he has been an assistant professor at the Department of Printmaking at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica. He works in a variety of material, technical and form expression positions, striving for an open and variable form of printmaking, which expands into sculptural forms of relief and object. Martin Derner chooses books, titles, meanings in the neo-dada style into absurd connections of a grotesque nature.
https://www.instagram.com/martin_derner/
https://www.galeria19.sk/2012/martin-derner/
Kristína Mesáros (1981) belongs to an outstanding generation of painters who entered the scene of contemporary visual art in the last ten years. A graduate of the Studio of printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (V. Kolenčík), she discovered painting as her main means of expression during her studies. In her work, she prefers imaginative subjects conditioned by her own personal experiences. Kristína finds inspiration and often concrete images in exotic places in faraway countries, borrows them from historical photographs, or hunts for them with her camera in the banalities of the surrounding world. The constantly explored human-landscape relationship refers to the traditional positions of illustrative or symbolic painting. Meaningful minimalism, however, obscures the stories told, and the seemingly stable poetics of the scenes are always disturbed by inconspicuous subversive moments. (Diana Majdáková)
http://www.kristinamesaros.com/
https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krist%C3%ADna_M%C3%A9s%C3%A1ro%C5%A1
https://www.artbase.sk/kristina-mesaros/
Mgr. art. Martin Ševčovič, ArtD. (1983, Piešťany) is a graduate of bachelor's and master's studies at the Studio of Free Printmaking of the Department of Printmaking and Other Media at the AFAD and a doctoral student in the Visual Arts study programme at the AFAD. He is an active artist, a graphic artist who deals with the overlap of graphic media into spatial objects using own author's procedures. In addition to creative work, he is also engaged in pedagogical work. He is currently the head of the Department of Art Education of the Faculty of Pedagogy of the Comenius University in Bratislava and vice-dean for artistic activities at the Faculty of Pedagogy of the Comenius University in Bratislava. He is the recipient of several awards and his works are included in the collections of renowned institutions. He is the founder and organiser of the annual Young Art Show group exhibition, which aims to present young professional artists.
Mgr. art. Zuzana Sabová is a graduate of the Studio of Free Printmaking of the Department of Printmaking and Other Media at the AFAD. She is a representative of a strong middle generation of authors (e.g. Tomáš Klepoch, Matúš Maťátko,...), whose work reflects on social and societal events and is based on drawing. Sabová's versatile work reflecting a graphic mindset moves in the field of printmaking, drawing, monumental painting, objects, audiovisual projects (in collaboration with Boris Vitázek). She is a long-time curator of the 4D Gallery in Galanta, which expanded its activities to Kaštieľ Moravany, where, among other things, she built a screen printing workshop in 2021 with the help of the teacher of the Department of Printmaking and Other Media, Mgr. art. Tomáš Klepoch and students of the Illustration Laboratory.
https://zuzasabova.tumblr.com/page/2
https://www.facebook.com/4dgallery
Mgr. art. Tomáš Roubal (1982) is a graduate of the Studio of Free Printmaking of the Department of Printmaking and Other Media at the AFAD, who works as a visual artist in Prague. His authentic, critical and even satirical work is broad-spectrum, dedicated to printmaking, drawing, painting, objects that he interconnects. His author's book Black Book won the Most Beautiful Czech Book of 2012 award.
Adela Režná – successful author in the field of editorial and book illustration.
https://www.asil.sk/adela-rezna
https://www.martinus.sk/authors/adela-rezna
Marta Mészárošová-Matus – successful illustrator (several realised book titles)
https://www.asil.sk/marta-matus
Hedviga Gutierréz - successful illustrator (several realised book titles), award of Slovak national library for the best student´s work within the competition The Most Beautiful Books in Slovakia 2018
https://www.asil.sk/hedviga-gutierrez
https://www.albatrosmedia.sk/autori/20247736/hedviga-gutierrez/
Martin Schwarz – teacher at Private Secondary Art School of Bohumil Bača, printmaker and illustrator, award Premio Salvi
http://www.skoladesignu.sk/l/8604-m-graficky-dizajn/bc.-martin-schwarz
Dávid Marcin – head of the printmaking department at the Josef Vydra´s Secondary Art Schol, established comic author.
https://www.slovart.sk/autori/david-marcin.html?page_id=92826
Marek Mráz – successful editorial illustrator (clients: Apple, NASA, Forbes)
Feedback from the employer is irrelevant, since graduates of the bachelor's degree are in practice self-employed, they establish their own studios, or work on contract with publishing houses and galleries, or other institutions, or advertising and media companies. Representatives of gallery institutions are part of the AFAD Accreditation Board.
The study plan of the study programme is developed by a team of responsible teachers of the study programme on the basis of group working meetings, together with other responsible teachers of the given study programme, but also with other teachers who should participate in the teaching of the given study programme. The proposal of the study plan is then submitted by the main responsible teacher of the study programme for discussion to the AFAD Programme Board, which is chaired by the vice-rector for academic affairs. The main responsible teacher of the study programme will consider incorporating the suggestions of the Programme Board and subsequently submit the study plan as part of the study programme description for further study programme approval processes within the internal system of ensuring the quality of education at the AFAD.
Study programme PRINTMAKING AND OTHER MEDIA:
The four-year bachelor's degree in the study programme PRINTMAKING AND OTHER MEDIA begins with studies in the preparatory year and continues in four studios. Students of the 1st year of study complete the two-semester profile course Printmaking Preparatory Course, which, like the studio course, is the most important credit component of the study programme in terms of content, difficulty of output, and time allowance. The teaching of the Preparatory Course is closely connected with the teaching of the profile subject Drawing - Printmaking and the compulsory subject Graphic Techniques and continues with studio teaching as well. While completing the Printmaking Preparatory Course, students clarify their preferences based on specific tasks in which of the three studios - Studio of Free Printmaking, Studio of Illustration and Printmaking, Studio of Free and Color Printmaking - they will continue in the second, three-year phase of the study. With its programme, the studio courses follow after the first year of study, its content and scope are more concentrated, more consistent due to the specifics of the given studio. In these studios, teaching continues according to their programme until the end of the bachelor's degree, with the possibility of transfer, internal and external internship, completion of the Laboratory of Illustration and the Visiting Professor Laboratory. Students have the possibility to replace the studio courses in the 4th-7th year as part of the study programme with the subjects Laboratory of illustration, Visiting Professor Laboratory - 1st degree, Work internship, or complete an internal or foreign study internship. Bachelor's studies are also significantly strengthened by compulsory, compulsory optional and optional subjects that improve drawing and printmaking skills and their overlaps from position to space or object. Part of the study plan is the comprehensive theoretical preparation of students through the compulsory historiographic subjects Visual art in a cultural context, which prepare students in the field of art history, philosophy, aesthetics and culture. Historiographical subjects end with a commission exam after the 4th semester, which means that they are included in the first phase of bachelor's studies. They are followed (3rd - 4th year) by theoretical and interpretive compulsory subjects that develop critical thinking in the studied medium, Problems of visual media (painting-printmaking) and Image analysis (painting-printmaking), which are also a compulsory foundation ending with a state exam. Theoretical teaching is provided by teachers of the Department of Theory and History of Art. In collaboration with invited lecturers and experts from practice, short-term intensive educational courses and workshops are implemented in the teaching, which significantly enrich the study plan with current ways of experimenting and applying creative principles in the context of contemporary art.
Printmaking Preparatory Course is a profile subject of the study programme. The content prepares students for the transition from diverse high school environments to specialisation in the creative field of printmaking. In the study plan, the subject is the Printmaking Preparatory Course at the beginning of the educational process of the study programme PRINTMAKING AND OTHER MEDIA. The result of finishing the course is the students' expanded ability to use printmaking principles in the sensitive selection of colour and material creative means of expression; knowing how to apply the basic graphic principles of the functioning of an artistic symbol in an artistic speech (statement) and construct an artistic artefact. Master basic structural principles and procedures in a graphic image. Students build the visible part of the work with selected material means (paint, pencil, lino,...) and means of expression (line, surface, light, volume, rhythm...), organised by various compositional principles (statics, dynamics, symmetry, asymmetry, addition, division ...). In the form of means of expression and compositional principles, students express the content and statement of the work.
Studio of free printmaking: its content is the creation of a graphic work through the use of a range of printmaking techniques, author's procedures and visual experiments. The studio creates a broad platform for the expression of the students' "micro-story" (with its own content, message, reference, emotions, aesthetic experience,...) in cooperation with the students' individuality, character and originality. The teaching is also based on various social and scientific activities of human activity and leads to the expansion of creative and expressive possibilities of the medium of printmaking itself and ideas in artistic practice. Students build their own authentic story individually and freely, through studio discourse, confrontation and positive uncertainty.
The profile subject Studio of Illustration and Printmaking provides a comprehensive education in the field of illustration and printmaking, with a dominant focus on illustration, in six semesters of the Studio courses (after the previous completion of 2 semesters of a Printmaking Preparatory Course). The 3rd and 4th semesters are focused on mastering basic illustration procedures and the realisation of smaller illustration units. Students get to know the structure and composition of the artistic realisation of the book, and look for the adequacy of the use of the chosen art technique. Teaching is carried out by a combination of semester assignments according to the curriculum and individual consultations so that students complete comprehensive training according to different illustration genres. In parallel with the illustration preparation, the teaching and application of printmaking art techniques takes place. Emphasis is placed on mastering not only genre, professional tasks, but also on the individual, artistic and personal profile of students. The 5th to 7th semester is oriented towards the realisation of larger illustration units and installations, experiment and application of illustration principles in the context of contemporary art. The teaching form itself is a combination of individual consultations and project cooperation of students in smaller groups. Cooperation with the external environment is also used in the form of workshops, group projects, field trips, presentations and also inter-studio cooperation.
Studio of free and colour printmaking - the goal of the profile subject is to achieve in students the ability to create their own art programme, from a conceptual point of view, but also from the point of view of art media and technological realisations. The structure of teaching the subject is built in such a way that students reach this personal artistic autonomy in a gradual way. The teaching principle is built on a basis from simpler to more complex, from more bound to more free, from basics to superstructure. In the first semester, they work on assignments that are based on the study drawing of the subject, then on their artistic shift. In the second semester, they have to respond to the given format, the third year is devoted to the search for artistic themes/problems and technological experiments in the field of classic and digital printmaking, colour, moving image and working with space. The acquired knowledge in terms of creative thinking, technological knowledge and creative experiment completes the fourth year. Teaching in the studio takes place with the adaptation of pedagogical techniques to the individual personalities of the students, the goal is to help them think critically and independently, to work confidently with printmaking techniques, artistic symbols and colours.
The Illustration Laboratory is a subject for covering experimental approaches, marginal positions and exploring new procedures and overlaps in the field of illustration (author's book creation, zine creation, comic creation, illustrations in public space and architecture, creation for the digital environment). The objective of the Illustration Laboratory is the active search and exploration of these territories, active action not only on an interdisciplinary level, but also outwardly. Together with the students of the laboratory, the teacher actively searches for, investigates and criticises a space of an experiment. The results of the laboratory actively support the creation of an alternative illustration production and scene, it displays its results and tries to apply them in an environment outside of the academy. It is possible to enrol in the Illustration Laboratory at the earliest from the completed 5th semester of bachelor's studies (whereby the prerequisite for the study is the mastering of basic artistic procedures) and at the latest until the 7th semester of the overall study in the bachelor's degree, in the 8th semester students return to study the profile subject, in which they want to finish their studies with a final thesis. In the first phase of the study in the Illustration Laboratory, students familiarise themselves with current laboratory topics, analyse together with the teacher their portfolio of artistic and conceptual approaches and explore the possibilities of shifts and experiments in connection with the given topic. In the next stages of the study, students are directed to the development of their own assignment, in more or less conceptual or formal frameworks, so as to develop the main contents of the laboratory. During their studies, students go from solving smaller group tasks, where they initially get acquainted with alternative types of illustration, to larger group or individual laboratory projects. During their studies, they gain experience with others, as the main currents of illustration, gradually developing and expanding their own positions. An important part of the study is also the gradual acquisition of knowledge with real publishing and public presentation of projects (publishing author's zines, comics, illustrated books, in analog or digital forms). Initially, it concerns smaller and partial realisations and simpler forms of publishing, later during their studies they acquire moderately larger and more demanding realisations. During their studies, students participate in workshops designed for students of the Illustration Laboratory across all levels of study so that they can gain knowledge from more experienced students, starting from participation to co-organization itself. In this way, they gain experience not only with cooperation, but also with the organisation of practical research, projects and realisations, which they will apply in future study and practice.
Drawing - Printmaking I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII is a profile subject that is an essential part of all years of the bachelor's study programme and the main supporting subject of studio courses. The content of the subject is figurative drawing, following on from the previous drawing skills of the admitted students. At the beginning of their studies, students are systematically guided to develop auxiliary vision, necessary for the correct creation of a study drawing. Static objects based on three-dimensional anatomical templates are suitable means in the first semester of teaching. In addition to a thorough anatomical rendering, the emphasis here is on the constructive expression of space and volume through drawing. When drawing, aids allowing faster recording in a large format are preferred. After mastering the static model, they gradually move on to drawing a living figure - an act. In the second and third semesters, the teaching is focused on the realistic rendering of the figure, resulting in studies-based drawings. From the fourth semester, students are guided to the procedures on the basis of which their authentic drawing expression is built. In the following semesters, the teaching provides space for the realisation of large-format figurative drawings in a range of different techniques and approaches. In the final phase of the bachelor's study, conditions are created for the realisation of figural drawings based on one's own authentic handwriting.
Printmaking techniques I, II, III, IV, V, VI.: are graded into six semesters of bachelor's studies. Printmaking techniques I.- II. in the first year, students complete basic printmaking techniques with regard to printing from height, depth and surface. By completing the first year, students acquire a practical and theoretical foundation, which is the starting point for their further studies. Students acquire skills in printmaking techniques and processes: lino, dry needle, etching, aquatint, reservage, serigraphy and lithography. Printmaking techniques III.- VI. Students graduate in the second and third year of study. During this period, in addition to developing and consolidating artistic skills, students have the opportunity to creatively use and develop acquired knowledge and skills in the field of creative application of printmaking techniques. By completing the subject, students will gain the ability to implement their designs in individual printmaking printing techniques from height, depth and surface. From general basics to the ability to creatively use acquired knowledge within studio assignments. The teaching of the subject consists of a theoretical and a practical part. In the theoretical part, students familiarise with the principles, issues and essence of given printmaking techniques using examples and their analysis. In the practical part, on the basis of the demonstration of the given printing process, they are directly confronted with the whole issue of the practical implementation of their artistic designs into the given technique. The next step is the actual realisation of the creative designs and the subsequent printing, during which all specific problems with the mastery of printmaking techniques and printmaking principles are directly consulted.
Medium paper - book binding: The aim of the course is to master the basic work procedures when working with paper and to master the basic types of book bindings. Knowing the ways of creating book bindings allows students to apply these procedures and experiment with them when creating their own artistic output based on a book object, as well as to understand the nature of the book medium. The subject is a combination of theoretical inputs and practical exercises. It is possible to enrol in the course in the 3rd and 4th semester of bachelor's studies.
Graphic space and object I, II: students will get an overview of works of art that work inventively with printmaking in space, apply the printmaking principle in spatial objects, installations and intermedia projects of today. They apply the acquired theoretical knowledge in the context of their artistic opinion in a project - the design of a printmaking installation or object, with an emphasis on understanding how the placement of the work in space affects printmaking thinking, the use of technologies and materials. The design can be the basis for the realisation of the work within the studio, in an external environment. In the second semester, the subject Graphic space and object II provides the possibility, in addition to the individual creation of students, for their mutual cooperation - interactivity in the form of a creative team. Students create a work - an installation or an object in the broader sense of the medium of printmaking, the overall character of which depends on the direction of the students' group creative communication under the guidance of the teacher. The result of the two-semester subject is the students' ability to sensitively orient themselves in handling creative means, procedures, skills in the context of the expansion of printmaking principles into space and graphic objects.
Bioart and Nature art I, II: The course is intended for third and fourth year students in the bachelor's degree. The goal of the subject Bioart and nature art is to oxygenate creative and graphic thinking with new creative strategies (collaboration with science /bioart/, direct work with nature and its materials /nature art/), current issues (ecological thinking, perception of the human position from the perspective of biology, searching for harmonious, gentle relationship between man and nature, etc.) and technological solutions (use of living materials, cultivation, generation, processuality). The content of the subject consists of a theoretical and a practical part. The first theoretical part (1st semester) contains two thematic units: 1. Bioart, 2. Nature art. The first semester aims to present the theoretical context of these current artistic trends in the form of seminars, lectures, and interviews with invited guests. The second practical part (2nd semester) consists of the realisation of a nature art workshop in the field (nature), creative creation in “nature art” intentions and documentation of the works.
Marketing for artists I, II: In the course of teaching the subject, students will become familiar with the basic vocabulary of marketing in the visual arts. They will become familiar with the historical development of the fine arts market in Slovakia and its current form, the possibilities of financing their own creative activities, and the teaching will also touch on issues related to grant writing. A separate part will be devoted to presentation on the Internet and social networks. During the seminars, students will practise working with the spoken word and written text, in which they develop the ability to verbalise and present themselves as creative people and to be able to introduce themselves and talk about their own work as artists. All this with regard to comprehensibility and clear delivery of the final message to a potential viewer or listener.
Typography for illustrators I, II: The course introduces the issue of typography and its application in graphic design. Font classification, text styling, editing options, removing typographical errors and creating correct print outputs.
Printmaking techniques VII.: Compulsory optional subject Printmaking Techniques VII, is for 4th year students. The course follows Printmaking Techniques I.-VI., develops acquired knowledge, creatively uses technological skills by combining printmaking techniques. It emphasises an individual and author's approach.
From the group of compulsory optional professional subjects, students choose subjects that correspond to the specialisation of the chosen studio. Students of theStudio of Illustration and Printmaking expand their technical and intellectual skills and knowledge focused on working with paper and book construction (subject Medium paper - book binding), students of the Studio of Free and Colour Printmaking connect printmaking with ecological thinking and experiment with natural materials (subject Bioart and Nature art I, II), students of the Studio of Free Printmaking by extending the printmaking principle to space and graphic objects (subject Graphic space and object I, II). The mentioned subjects are prerequisites for the given studios, but if interested, students of other studios of the study programme can also enrol in them and thus expand their arsenal of knowledge. Students choose additional compulsory optional professional subjects without a studio focus and develops in them painting procedures (subject Basics of Painting Techniques), printmaking procedures (subject Printmaking Techniques VII), knowledge of materials and chemicals used in the printmaking medium (subject Basics of Chemistry and Toxicology), typography (subject Typography for illustrators I, II), marketing (subject Marketing for artists I, II), ........(subject Professional workshop). The set of professional subjects ensures the expected level of technological skills for creation in studios and professional mastering of the final bachelor's thesis. In addition to studio courses and professional subjects, the key compulsory theoretical subjects are focused on knowledge of the development of history and theory of art as well as on the specific issues of the study programme: Visual arts in a cultural context I - IV, Introduction to studies I - II, Anatomy I - II , Problems of visual media (painting-printmaking) I – II, Image analysis ((painting-printmaking) I – II, Problems of Slovak visual arts I – II. These complement optional theoretical subjects deepening the discipline with regard to the world of art and culture, improve language preparation in the field of contemporary art and culture and in the field of soft skills such as knowledge of marketing in art and the ability of project and grant activities.Teaching in the field of soft skills is also planned in the form of block teaching and professional workshops for the topicality of information and knowledge from practice.
The PRINTMAKING AND OTHER MEDIA study programme is complemented by a group of compulsory optional subjects, which are divided into professional practical and professional theoretical subjects. These subjects provide a foundation towards media specialisation and at the same time deepen the disciplinarity with respect to the world of art and culture. The content also includes subjects that improve language training in the field of contemporary art and culture and in the field of soft skills such as knowledge of copyright law, marketing in art and the ability of project and grant activities. Teaching in the field of soft skills is also planned in the form of block teaching and professional workshops for the up-to-date information and knowledge from practice.
Optional subjects enrich the range of subjects that, through workshops, courses, field trips and in the form of short-term education, respond dynamically to current topics of visual art by using renowned practitioners from the artistic and cultural environment, or as part of the academy's internationalisation with foreign teachers and practitioners.
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Part of the education in the study programme PRINTMAKING AND OTHER MEDIA is the possibility of an internship and supplementary internship in the local and foreign fields, which within the framework of education bring students direct contact with a professional environment in which they acquire practical experience and skills. The internship is also an opportunity for students to gain new professional contacts and connections, as well as theoretical experience with applicability after graduation. At the same time, foreign student mobility is encouraged in the form of internships at foreign partner schools, where they are positively confronted with educational experiences in a different cultural and social environment. Here they also confront their artistic output in the international field and have the opportunity to become part of international artistic and cultural networks.
Part of the education in the PRINTMAKING AND OTHER MEDIA study programme is the option of an internal internship. Students have the opportunity to complete an internal study internship within another AFAD study programme and thus expand their skills and experience, which they are then able to apply in the field of printmaking and illustration in the form of interdisciplinary expansions.
As part of the wider educational process, bachelor's degree students are integrated into ongoing art and research projects at the AFAD in the form of direct application to teaching or through exhibition, publication and other presentation activities, which are also supported by grant systems (especially KEGA – Cultural and Educational Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic) and the presentation of creative and artistic activity (especially FPU - Slovak Art Council).
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https://www.vsvu.sk/en/events/LRJ8dqO2/
https://www.vsvu.sk/en/research-and-grants/grants-and-project/?v=VOP0l4OQ
The decisive evaluation tool for educational results is the periodic semester evaluation at the commission level (the commission consists of teachers of the study programme, teachers from the Department of Theory and History of Art and includes experts from the external environment), which includes a mandatory presentation of the result of the students' studio courses and at the same time their defence, which is followed by a discussion by the committee and also by all participating students and the professional public. Subsequently, the evaluation by the committee and verification by the academy-wide committee consisting of members of the AFAD Pedagogical Board takes place. In the result of semester works of individual students of Studio courses, the partial results of education not only from the profile subject Studio, but also from professional and theoretical subjects in the given semester or in the previous semester of the given study programme are combined. The summaries of the semester evaluation are discussed and analysed at the meetings of the AFAD Pedagogical Board with the VŠVU management, at which the positives and also the negatives of setting the results of the teaching process are identified. Finally, the results of the students' education are publicly accessible to the professional and general public (an academy exhibition in all AFAD buildings, other gallery, museum and exhibition spaces, in public space, in church monuments, or online presentations https://www.digitalnyprieskum.sk or Facebook, Instagram and AFAD website https://www.vsvu.sk/en/events/QXenZJOx/digital-prieskum/). This creates a space for a wider confrontation of the results of education with the external environment.
- different parts of the study programme (modules, subjects and other relevant academy and extracurricular activities, provided that they contribute to the achievement of the desired educational outcomes and bring credits) in the structure of compulsory, compulsory optional and optional subjects, Listed in the attached appendix - curriculum table from the Bedeker Handbook.
- in the study programme, the profile subjects of the respective study path (specialisation) are indicated, for each educational part/subject, the educational outcomes and related criteria and rules for their evaluation are defined in such a way that all the educational goals of the study programme are met (they can only be listed in the Information Documents of Subjects in the Education Results section and in the Subject Completion Conditions section),
Listed in the ILP and in the attached appendix - a table of the curriculum from the Bedeker Handbook.
- prerequisites, co-requisites and recommendations when creating a study plan,
Listed in the ILP and in the attached appendix - a table of the curriculum from the Bedeker Handbook.
- for each educational part of the study plan/subject, it determines the educational activities used (lecture, seminar, exercise, final work, project work, laboratory work, internship, field trip, field practicum, professional practice, state examination and others, or their combinations) suitable for achieving educational outcomes,
Listed in the ILP and in the attached appendix - a table of the curriculum from the Bedeker Handbook.
- methods by which the educational activity is carried out - face-to-face, distance learning, combined (in accordance with the Information Documents of Subjects),
Listed in ILP
- subject outline/syllabus [1],
Listed in ILP
- student workload (“amount" for individual subjects and educational activities separately) [2], Listed in ILP
- credits allocated to each part based on the educational outcomes achieved and the related workload, Listed in the ILP and in the attached appendix - a table of the curriculum from the Bedeker Handbook.
- the person providing the subject (or partner organisation and person[3]) with the contact details, Listed in the ILP and in the attached appendix - the table of the curriculum from Bedekro.
- teachers of the subject (or participating partner organisations and persons) (can also be listed in the IL of the subjects), Listed in the ILP
- place of the subject (if the study programme is carried out at several workplaces). Listed in the schedule in AIS.
Realisation of subjects:
Realisation of subjects: the building of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Hviezdoslavovo nám. 18. In the building on Hviezdoslavovo námestie theoretical subjects take place.
Realisation of subjects: the building of the Academy of Fine Arts And Design in Bratislava, Drotárska cesta 44. The building on Drotárska cesta is primarily used to Studio courses and professional practical and theoretical subjects.
Realisation of subjects: the building of the Academy of Fine Arts and Bratislava in Bratislava, Koceľova 23. In the building at Koceľova 23, the subjects provided by the Department of Painting take place.
Realisation of subjects: purpose-built building of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Štefánikovo nám. 18/10, Kremnica. In the purpose-built facility of the AFAD in Kremnica, the compulsory optional subject Professional workshop and the optional subject Short-term educational course are taught.
[1] The teachers providing the subject during the evaluation will allow the work group access to the study materials of the subject and the content of individual educational activities.
[2] We recommend reporting the workload related to both contact and non-contact teaching in accordance with ECTS Users' Guide 2015.
[3] E.g. when ensuring professional practice or other educational activity carried out outside the university.
- the number of credits for compulsory subjects required for the proper completion of the study/part of the study
191 ECTS without credits for defence and state examination,
- the number of credits for compulsory optional subjects and for optional subjects required for the proper completion of the study/completion of the study part, 39 ECTS
Students must complete the prescribed compulsory subjects according to the study plan. During the course of study, students must complete at least 7 compulsory optional courses (in the case of two-semester and multi-semester courses, each semester is counted as one compulsory elective course).
- the number of credits for optional subjects necessary for the proper completion of the study/part of the study, students do not have to complete the optional subjects according to the study plan if they have enough credits for compulsory and compulsory optional subjects.
- the number of credits required for the proper completion of the studies is at least 240 credits (ECTS) for the entire bachelor's study, including credits for the defence of the bachelor's thesis and the state exam, 10 credits (ECTS)
- number of credits for final thesis 10 ECTS and defence of final thesis and state exam 10 ECTS necessary for the proper completion of studies,
- the number of credits required for the proper completion of studies/completion of a part of studies for artistic activities, except for the final work in art study programmes.
Studio courses 70 ECTS
More information:
Bedeker Handbook and in ILP:
https://www.vsvu.sk/en/standard-study/informations-for-students/handbook-standard/
Rules for verification of educational outcomes:
The decisive evaluation tool of educational results is the periodic semester evaluation at the committee level (the committee consists of teachers of the study programme, teachers from the Department of Theory and History of Art and includes experts from the external environment as well), which includes a mandatory presentation of the result of the students' Studio courses and at the same time its defence, which is followed by a discussion with the committee and also with all participating students and the professional public. Subsequently, the evaluation by the committee and verification by the school-wide committee consisting of members of the AFAD Pedagogical Board takes place. The school-wide committee is headed by the vice-rector for study affairs and takes place without the participation of students. To the school-wide committee, each head of a specialised studio will present the semester assignments, the course of teaching and the results of the students' works, while highlighting the exceptional results of the students, drawing attention to the poor results of the students and presenting the individual evaluations of the committee (from A to FX). Eventually, the results of the students' education are accessible to the professional and broad public (an exhibition of the whole academy in all AFAD buildings, other gallery and exhibition spaces, or as online presentations https://www.digitalnyprieskum.sk/ or on Facebook, Instagram and the AFAD website https://www.vsvu.sk/sk/udalosti/QXenZJOx/digitalny-prieskum).
The evaluation of study results and the possibility of correction procedures are determined by the AFAD Study Regulations:
https://www.vsvu.sk/en/standard-study/informations-for-students/study-regulations/
The evaluation of the students' study results within the study of the subject is mainly carried out:
continuous control of study results in individual subjects during the teaching part of the study (for example, progress status, partial assignments, completion of a creative workshop, workshop, written tests, assignments for independent work, term papers, report and seminar papers, etc.), specified in more detail in the ILP (information documents of subjects),
As part of the Printmaking and other media study programme, subjects such as Professional Workshop, Professional Field Trip, Supplementary Internship, Introduction to Study and others listed in the ILP are evaluated by passing the course (passed/failed).
Students who have been evaluated with the grade of FX in professional, practical and theoretical subjects, have the right to two correction terms as long as they meets the conditions of the continuous evaluation.
Students can apply for the recognition of subjects they completed in another study programme at another university. Subjects completed at another university are recognised by the AFAD on the basis of a statement of study results prepared for students by the given university and by submitting an application on the prescribed form of the AFAD (exact instructions are contained in the Application for recognition of subjects form).
The conditions of recognition are described by the AFAD Study Regulations
https://www.vsvu.sk/en/standard-study/informations-for-students/study-regulations/
and the Directive on the recognition of documents
https://www.vsvu.sk/en/standard-study/document-recognition/
The list of topics of the final theses of the study programme Printmaking and other media is registered in AiS.
- rules for submitting, processing, opposing, defending and evaluating final theses in the study programme,
The topics of the final theses - bachelor thesis are generated individually for each student and are formulated by the thesis supervisor based on the students' previous studies and artistic orientation. They are approved by the main responsible teacher in charge of the study programme in AiS (Academic Information System).
- options and procedures for participating in student mobility are published on the AFAD website
https://www.vsvu.sk/en/international/students-mobility/study-stays-for-students/?v=8X0Q4WO0
– rules for abiding academic ethics and drawing consequences,
are included in the AFAD Codex of Ethics and in the Disciplinary Rules for AFAD students and published on the website:
Codex of Ethics:
https://www.vsvu.sk/en/official-board/codex-of-ethics/
Disciplinary rules for students of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava.
https://www.vsvu.sk/workspace/media/documents/disciplinarny-poriadok.pdf
– procedures applicable to students with special needs,
covered by Internal Regulation 3/2020, Rector's directive to ensure a generally accessible environment for students with specific needs
https://www.vsvu.sk/en/standard-study/informations-for-students/students-with-specific-needs/, which includes:
– Request by applicants with specific needs to modify the form and method of conducting the admission exams, taking into account their specific needs.
– Application for inclusion in the register of students with specific needs and consent to the evaluation of specific needs.
Through the website, applicants are notified in the conditions and instructions on the admission process about the possibility of submitting an application, and then the specific needs of applicants are approached individually, regarding the course of the admission process. Students are also informed via the website and the Support and Counselling Centre for AFAD students:
(https://www.vsvu.sk/en/support-and-counseling-center/?v=8X0Q4WO0) about the possibility to submit an application, which will then be approved by the coordinator for students with specific needs and the vice-rector for study affairs. After the application is approved, a confirmation will be issued to students and then the individual possibilities of the process of making the educational process accessible will be discussed with them, about which the teachers of the study programme Printmaking and Other Media will also be informed.
– procedures for submission of report and appeals by students.
Students can submit impetus and appeals of various kinds in writing, by post, by e-mail or through physical mailboxes in the academy buildings:
a. through the Support and Counselling Centre for AFAD students, which, based on a specific impetus or appeal, forwards the impetus to the AFAD Ethics Committee or the Study Affairs Commission of the AFAD Academic Senate or the vice-rector for study affairs.
b. through the study officer, who will forward it to the vice-rector for study affairs.
c. directly to the members (pedagogical or student representatives) of the Commission for Study Affairs AFAD AS, who, based on a specific initiative or appeal, will decide on the method of resolution.
d. directly to the members of the Ethics Committee of the AFAD, who decide on the method of resolution based on a specific impetus or appeal.
In the specific resolution of the initiative and appeal, joint resolution of all the named components or their representatives is not excluded.
STUDY PLAN
Study programme: PRINTMAKING AND OTHER MEDIA
Field of study: Art
Degree of study: 1.
Form of study: full-time
Standard length of study: 4 years
Academic degree: Bc.
Language: the primary language of the programme is Slovak and partly English. Exact data on languages are given in the ILP of subjects.
Separate attachment in pdf format.
The academic calendar is published on the AFAD website, in the study guide - Bedeker, in the Academic Information System - AiS. Students are also informed about the academic calendar and the current schedule and their publication or update through emails, as well as Instagram and Facebook.
https://www.vsvu.sk/en/standard-study/informations-for-students/handbook-standard/?v=8X0Q4WO0
https://www.vsvu.sk/en/events/P7kgK675/
https://www.instagram.com/vsvu_afad/
https://www.facebook.com/vsvu.afad
The person responsible for the delivery, development and quality of the study programme: PRINTMAKING AND OTHER MEDIA and the main responsible teacher providing the profile subject: Studio
Jančovič, Robert, prof., akad. mal.
Position: professor
specialisation of profile subject:
Studio of free printmaking
E-mail address: jancovic@vsvu.sk
Hyperlink to a person's record in the Register of University Employees:
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/11749
Responsible teachers of the profile subject: Studio of the study programme: PRINTMAKING AND OTHER MEDIA
Palo, Ľuboslav, doc., Mgr. art., ArtD.
Position: associate professor
specialisation of profile subject:
Studio of Illustration and Printmaking
E-mail address: palo@vsvu.sk
Hyperlink to a person's record in the Register of University Employees:
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/11728
Kolenčík, Vojtech, doc., akad. mal.
Position: associate professor
specialisation of profile subject:
Studio of free and color printmaking
E-mail address: kolencik@vsvu.sk
Hyperlink to a person's record in the Register of University Employees:
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/11753
Makar Róbert, doc., Mgr. art., ArtD.
Position: associate professor
specialisation of profile subject
Printmaking Preparatory Course
E-mail address: makar@vsvu.sk
Hyperlink to a person's record in the Register of University Employees:
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/9259
Bubán Stanislav, doc., Mgr. akad. mal.
Position: associate professor
specialisation of profile subject:
Drawing - printmaking
E-mail address: buban@vsvu.sk
Hyperlink to a person's record in the Register of University Employees:
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/11710
Separate attachment in the pdf format.
Augustovič Peter, akad. mal.
Position: assistant professor
Subject title: Printmaking techniques I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII
E-mail address: augustovic@vsvu.sk
Hyperlink to a person's record in the Register of University Employees:
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/11697
Gyenes Gabriel, Mgr. art., ArtD.
Position: assistant professor
Subject title: Bioart and Nature art
Assistant: Studio of Free and Colour Printmaking
E-mail address: gyenes@vsvu.sk
Hyperlink to a person's record in the Register of University Employees:
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/31677
Andrea Pézman, Mgr. art. Ing. arch., ArtD.
Position: assistant professor
Subject title: Graphic space and object I and II,
Assistant: Studio of Free Printmaking
E-mail address: pezman@vsvu.sk
Hyperlink to a person's record in the Register of University Employees:
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/11729
Šebelová Zuzana, Mgr. art.
Position: assistant
Subject title: Medium paper - book binding
E-mail address: sebelova@vsvu.sk
Assistant: Studio of illustration and free printmaking
Hyperlink to a person's record in the Register of University Employees:
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/34119
Katarína Macurová, Mgr. art., ArtD.
Position: assistant professor
Subject name: Illustration Laboratory
E-mail address: klepoch@vsvu.sk
Hyperlink to a person's record in the Register of University Employees:
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/11798?mode=full&do=filterForm-submit&surname=Macurov%C3%A1&university=706000000&sort=surname&employment_state=no&filter=Vyh%C4%BEada%C5%A5
Klepoch Tomáš, Mgr. art.
Position: assistant professor
Subject title: Illustration Laboratory
E-mail address: klepoch@vsvu.sk
Hyperlink to a person's record in the Register of University Employees:
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/18695
Jablonská, Beata, Mgr., PhD.
E-mail address: jablonska@vsvu.sk
Hyperlink to a person's record in the Register of University Employees:
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/11786
Hodásová, Barbara, Mgr. Mgr. art., ArtD.
E-mail address: hodasova@vsvu.sk
Hyperlink to a person's record in the Register of University Employees:
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/8797
Grúň, Daniel, doc., Mgr., PhD.
E-mail address: grun@vsvu.sk
Hyperlink to a person's record in the Register of University Employees:
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/11741
Lacko, Norbert, Mgr., PhD.
E-mail address: lacko@vsvu.sk
Hyperlink to a person's record in the Register of University Employees:
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/11760
Study programme PRINTMAKING AND OTHER MEDIA. Final theses topics are generated for each student individually.
Jančovič, Robert, prof., akad. mal.
E-mail address: jancovic@vsvu.sk
Palo, Ľuboslav, doc., Mgr. art., ArtD.
E-mail address: palo@vsvu.sk
Kolenčík, Vojtech, doc., akad. mal.
E-mail address: kolencik@vsvu.sk
The scientific/artistic-pedagogical characteristics of the supervisors of final theses are registered in AiS and will be made available at the request of the reviewers.
Study advisor
Andrea Pézman, Mgr. art., ArtD.
E-mail address: pezman@vsvu.sk
Study advisor
Robert Makar, doc., Mgr. art., ArtD.
E-mail address: makar@vsvu.sk
Individual counseling sessions by appointment via e-mail.
Tatarková, Mária, Ing.
Study officer and social scholarships
E-mail address: tatarkova@vsvu.sk
Kozáková, Sylvia, Ing.
AiS administrator
E-mail address: kozakova@vsvu.sk
Jančařík, Tomáš, Mgr. art.
Career counselor
E-mail address: jancarik@vsvu.sk
Šarkan, Martin, Mgr., PhD.
Psychological counselor
E-mail address: sarkan@vsvu.sk
https://www.vsvu.sk/en/events/5XDjmj7j/support-and-counseling-center-for-students-of-vsvu-in-bratislava/
List and characteristics of classrooms of the study programme PRINTMAKING AND OTHER MEDIA:
Profile subject Studio courses and all compulsory optional and optional subjects with the characteristics of practical professional subjects take place in studios and workshops with a total area of 762.6 m2. Studios and workshops are available to all students of the bachelor's degree in the study programme PRINTMAKING AND OTHER MEDIA for direct teaching (theoretical and practical courses, consultations and discussions of the teacher with students) and indirect teaching (individual student work on a semester assignment or final thesis). Students use the workshops in accordance with safety regulations and as necessary for their semester or final work, or for assignments within professional practical subjects. Material storages are also an infrastructural part of studios and workshops.
Studios (rooms): Profile subjects taught by the head of the studio together with assistants/assistant professors. Each Studio has at least 1 designated room.
Studios:
room n°127 – 36,0 m2 - studio – doc. Vojtech Kolenčík, akad. mal.
room n°172 – 16,0 m2 - studio – doc. Vojtech Kolenčík, akad. mal.
room n°201 – 35,4 m2 - studio – prof. Róbert Jančovič, akad. mal.
as. Mgr. art. Ing. arch. Andrea Pézman, ArtD.
room n°202 – 90,7 m2 - studio – prof. Róbert Jančovič, akad. mal.
as. Mgr. art. Ing. arch. Andrea Pézman, ArtD.
room n°205 – 35,4 m2 - studio – prof. Róbert Jančovič, akad. mal.
as. Mgr. art. Ing. arch. Andrea Pézman, ArtD.
room n°213 – 43,6 m2 - studio – doc. Mgr. art. Róbert Makar, ArtD.
room n°214 – 93,0 m2 - studio – doc. Mgr. art. Ľubo Palo, ArtD.
as. Mgr. art. Zuzana Šebelová
room n°216 – 33,6 m2 - studio – Mgr. art. Tomáš Klepoch
room n°218 – 16,2 m2 - doctoral students
room n°219 – 36,6 m2 - studio – doc. Mgr. art. Ľubo Palo, ArtD.
as. Mgr. art. Zuzana Šebelová
room n°36 – 34 m2 - studio – doc. Vojtech Kolenčík, akad. mal.
STUDIOS IN TOTAL: 466,5 m2
Studio courses take place in a vertical scheme, where bachelor's, master's and doctoral students meet in the same space and time. Depending on the current number of students in a given academic year and depending on the specialisation in the Studio, there is approximately 4 m2 of space per student. The standard of the Studio is basic work equipment (+ wifi connection). Further equipment of the Studios depends on its specific needs (inventory lists will be available for inspection for the accreditation committee during a physical visit to the academy).
The studios are located in the academy building at Drotárska cesta 44.
Digital classroom: approx. 60 m2. The digital classroom has appropriate technological equipment (inventory lists will be available for inspection for the accreditation committee during a physical visit to the academy).
The digital classroom is located in the academy building (Drotárska cesta 44).
Workshops and laboratories (rooms):
The workshops have a total area of 261.4 m2. Students use workshops in accordance with safety regulations and sign safety conditions during safety training. They use the workshops as necessary for the focus of their semester or final work, or for assignments within professional practical subjects. Material storages are also an infrastructural part of workshops. Screen printing workshop, Printing workshop, Etching workshop. Students have the opportunity to use workshops linked to other study programmes. Students reserve work in the workshop in the form of a request and for the time determined by the responsible workshop worker. In the reserved time, students can work on their semester assignments and final theses. The workshops are intended for the realisation of semester and final works and at the same time serve for the teaching of practical professional subjects.
Workshops:
room n°057 – 30.0 m2 - screen printing workshop - Ľubomír Geriak
room n°125-126 - 216.2 m2 - printing workshop - Mgr. art. Róbert Jančovič
Mgr. art. Branislav Novotný
room n°129 – 15.2 m2 - etching workshop - Mgr. art. Róbert Jančovič
Mgr. art. Branislav Novotný
WORKSHOPS IN TOTAL: 261.4 m2
Warehouses
room n°016 - 18.3 m2 - lighting room for cyanotype, paper storage + cutter
room n°078 - 16.4 m2 - warehouse for abrasives and lithographic stones
WAREHOUSES IN TOTAL: 34.7 m2
Material resources: The workplace provides basic material resources for the Printmaking and other media study programme. Students have at their disposal basic chemicals for technological processes in printmaking. Materials necessary for the realisation of semester work or the final theses, students pay from their own resources, or the department from grant and research projects.
Lecture and seminar rooms: 5 + 5 rooms - total area approx. 362 m2. Each lecture room has appropriate technological equipment: computer, data projector, projection screen, audio equipment and Wi-Fi connection (inventory lists will be available for inspection for the accreditation committee during a physical visit to the academy).
Lecture and seminar rooms are located in the academy building (Hviezdoslavovo nám. 18, Bratislava).
Gallery Medium: total area approx. 150 m2. The Medium gallery is used for the presentation of students' creative activities, accompanying lecture and discussion forums, or for social activities of the AFAD students.
Communication and Visualisation Learning Centre in Kremnica: a historical building that is used for workshops, seminars and conferences. It has accommodation capacities (approx. 30 people) and lecture rooms. The centre also includes sufficient technical and technological equipment. The purpose of such a centre is in the opportunity to complete an intensive work week, which is part of studio courses. In the learning centre, students concentrate on the given topic in the form of block teaching or a specially prepared workshop, for example with students from the partner studio of a foreign university. The goal is to ensure interaction between schools and concentrated creative activity and inter-studio cooperation.
Future: AFAD plans to build a technology pavilion that will include the following centres: Centre for wood and stone processing, Centre for metal casting, Centre for surface treatment, Centre for model processing, Centre for printing, dyeing and textile processing, Centre for audiovisual production, Centre for 2D and 3D printing, Chemical-technological laboratory, Centre for photo processing, Centre for painting technologies and Centre for professional teaching and presentation.
a. Academic library and related reference libraries at workplaces, electronic library databases, online catalogues of books, dictionaries, encyclopaedias, e-books, e-journals and access to important databases of world galleries and universities, general portals and databases:
- e. g. scientia.sk, SpringerLink, Slovak National Bibliography
- e. g. Metropolitan Museum in New York, University of Cambridge
- e. g. minedu, EU, Slov-lex
https://www.vsvu.sk/en/academic-library/
b. Artotéka – data storage of art academies and AFAD own storages
c. Free internet connection – wi-fi in all academy buildings (Hviezdoslavovo nám. 18, Drotárska cesta 44, Koceľova 23 and the Communication and Visualisation Learning Centre in Kremnica)
d. AiS (Academic Information System), which contains ILP – Information Document of Subject - timetable - study plan of the study programme - all internal regulations and all internal letters related to the organisation of study.
https://ais2.vsvu.sk/ais/start.do
e. Distance learning tools: MS Teams (used for distance learning and communication), Elearning Wiki (live database of study materials), e-mail http://wiki.vsvu.sk/wikilogin/ http://elearning.vsvu.sk, Information platforms: web, e-mails, Instagram, Facebook https://www.vsvu.sk/sk/ https://www.instagram.com/vsvu_afad/ https://www.facebook.com/vsvu.afad.
f. Information channels: web, academy e-mails, Instagram, Facebook
https://www.vsvu.sk/sk/
https://www.instagram.com/vsvu_afad/
https://www.facebook.com/vsvu.afad
The form and method of study is defined in the AFAD Study Regulations (Article 3, Forms and methods of study, points 5 to 8).
The AFAD mostly uses a combined method of education, which is indicated in the ILP (Information Document of Subject), even if the education takes place completely by distance. When changing the method of teaching a subject, its content is discussed in advance with the study programme guarantor and then with the vice-rector for academic affairs at a predetermined time (usually May–June of the previous academic year when the study plan and content of individual ILPs are checked for the next academic year). Complete distance education at the AFAD is implemented by order of the rector, especially in extraordinary situations (for example, when a state of emergency is declared).
The given study programme is defined as an academically oriented, artistic type of study, but at the same time the AFAD has created a mechanism for internships and supplementary internships, within which it cooperates with various types of institutions and companies in the local and foreign scene. In addition to permanent partners, cooperation with other partners is currently being approved. Procedures are published on the academy's website and study guide (bedeker).
https://www.vsvu.sk/en/standard-study/organization-of-study/internships/?v=8X0Q4WO0
https://www.vsvu.sk/en/standard-study/informations-for-students/handbook-standard/?v=8X0Q4WO0
https://www.vsvu.sk/en/
The Gallery Medium and public external spaces of the academy serve for cultural and social events at the AFAD. The gallery space is primarily devoted to exhibition activities of students and teachers of the academy, at the same time it serves as a communication space for various types of lectures and discussions, which are also open to the general public, or other social activities of teachers, students, employees, but also graduates of the academy. As part of the open-call mechanism, the gallery spaces of the academy also present exhibition projects of our partners from abroad, or the results of our international cooperation. As part of international cooperation, projects of international significance are periodically prepared (for example, the Month of Photography, Šperk stret, Poster Triennale, Biela noc and others). Another important facility of the AFAD is the Communication and Visualisation Learning Centre in Kremnica, which the academy uses for creative workshops and block education. The learning centre has accommodation facilities, lecture rooms, digital technologies and material resources. The facility is intensively used for workshops, conferences, seminars and meetings with foreign partner educational institutions and stimulates internationalisation, interaction and concentrated creative activity in a group. Thanks to its favourable geographical location, the training centre is used for sports activities in nature as part of creative stays.
Students of the Printmaking and Other Media study programme can mainly apply for Erasmus+ mobility programmes (projects KA103 and KA107), CEEPUS, programmes based on bilateral agreements and the possibilities of the National Scholarship Program focused on student, pedagogical and non-pedagogical mobility. In addition to standard mobilities, students also participate in other art and research projects, in which the AFAD creates joint international platforms with selected foreign partners and collaborates on specific artistic, exhibition, presentation, research and innovation tasks and projects. For the mobility of the study programme Printmaking and Other Media and gaining international experience, the AFAD has created a wide network of partnerships in most countries of the European Union, partner countries outside the EU in Europe (Western Balkan countries, Ukraine, Georgia), Asia (China, Japan, India, Israel, Turkey ) and America (USA, Mexico). At the same time, students of the study programme Printmaking and Other Media will have the opportunity to take advantage of a number of international workshops, lectures, seminars, educational courses and meetings of visiting foreign teachers at our school.
Equally important is the opportunity to complete a part of the study with a visiting teacher from abroad as part of the primary education. Foreign students at our academy, who come mainly as part of the Erasmus+ program, will contribute to building contacts and opportunities for future cooperation for our students. Students of the study programme Printmaking and Other Media will have the opportunity to profit from the activities of important international networks of which the AFAD is a part (Cumulus, ELIA). The international presentation activities of students are also supported by embassies of the Slovak Republic and cultural institutes of the Slovak Republic abroad. In addition to study stays, art-research and presentation activities, students of the Printmaking and Other Media study programme have the opportunity to apply for student and graduate internships in selected foreign institutions, companies and specialised or art studios of professional artists within the Erasmus+ program.
All options, instructions and rules are made available and updated in detail on the academy's website, and at the same time they are anchored in the AFAD's internal regulations - the rector's directive: Implementation of the ERASMUS+ program at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava.
Complete information, instructions and the course of foreign mobility (from application to recognition of credits upon return):
https://www.vsvu.sk/en/current-internal-regulations/?v=8X0Q4WO0
https://www.vsvu.sk/en/international/?v=8X0Q4WO0
(forms for individual study plan and recognition of mobility are available to students in AiS.)
Criteria and requirements for applicants are available on the academy's website:
https://www.vsvu.sk/en/admissions/admissions-bachelor-studies/
Criteria and requirements for studying the Printmaking and other media programme available on the web:
AFAD provides for all applicants the possibility of an individual consultation, for which they can sign up online, with the option of choosing from several teachers and doctoral students. AFAD also provides collective consultations and presentations on study options. They take place during open days at the AFAD, or directly by agreement with secondary schools (both face-to-face and remotely).
Internal regulation on the admission procedure at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (link to internal regulation):
The admission process takes place in two rounds, and applicants are evaluated by a committee consisting of teachers with the artistic and pedagogical titles of professor, associate professor or assistant professor. Teachers from another study programme at the AFAD can also be members of the admissions committee. The admissions committee is appointed by the rector of the academy.
The first round takes place remotely without the participation of applicants. In the first round, the admissions committee evaluates digital portfolios according to the requirements published on the AFAD website:
The portfolio must contain works in which applicants demonstrate drawing skills in the form of a 1:1 head study and a figure study based on a model, as drawing is the basis of the study. Furthermore, works and a sketchbook focused on the applicants' creativity and other skills, in which their direction, visual and intellectual setting are indicated. A letter of motivation, which, in addition to the applicants' motivation, also presents their ability to express themselves.
Advancing to the second round.
The admissions committee evaluates the works submitted in the first round and determines the group advancing to the second round.
The condition for advancing to the second round is to obtain at least 50% of the maximum possible number of points from the first round. Depending on the situation (e.g. a small number of applicants), the commission can move the advancement limit to 45% of the points earned. Applicants who advance to the second round of the entrance exam are informed and the results published via the academy's website no later than 30 days after the first round. At the same time, advancing applicants receive an invitation to the second round of admission exams.
The second round takes place directly in the academy with the participation of advancing applicants from the 1st round.
The second round of admission exams lasts two days, as follows: The subject of the tasks is a combination of tasks through which applicants demonstrate the ability of compositional, graphic and illustrative vision. Applicants demonstrate creative abilities of artistic vision and creative response to impulses. The content of the tasks and assignments is prepared in such a way that the applicants show their imagination in visual expression. The completed tasks will demonstrate how applicants can express themselves creatively. How they think in context and what skills they can use in their work. In an interview, applicants present their opinions, thereby demonstrating the ability to master the bachelor's degree in the study programme PRINTMAKING AND OTHER MEDIA
The second round is also a test checking critical and visual thinking, reading comprehension, or a general knowledge of visual arts and culture. The oral interview ensures an inclusive form of admissions procedure where the applicant demonstrates his/her knowledge of the field; the interview also includes a discussion of home assignments.
The results of the admission exams are discussed at the Rector's Advisory Board and recorded. Criteria and requirements for applicants are updated annually and are published on the academy's website. The updating of criteria and requirements is also related to the development of art, to the development of certain technical or technological skills.
The entire procedure and conditions of the admission process are published on the academy's website:
https://www.vsvu.sk/en/admissions/admissions-bachelor-studies/
https://www.vsvu.sk/en/standard-study/bachelor-studies/?v=8X0Q4WO0
Admission exams are:
- Reliable - applicants must demonstrate in their portfolio and during the admission process openness and maturity to study at the bachelor's level of study
- Fair – collective evaluation of the results of admission exams, discussion of applicants' works and discussion with applicants is a guarantee of a fair evaluation of all applicants.
- Transparent – conditions, criteria, methods and procedures for accepting and selecting applicants are published on the academy's website and detailed and updated every year.
AFAD provides the possibility of an individual consultation for each applicant:
https://www.vsvu.sk/en/consultations-for-applicants/?v=LRJ8jJO2
Internal regulation on the admission procedure at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (link to internal regulation):
https://www.vsvu.sk/workspace/media/documents/vp-9-2021-vnu-torny-predpis-o-priji-macom-konani-na-vs-vu.pdf
Criteria and requirements for applicants:
https://www.vsvu.sk/en/admissions/admissions-bachelor-studies/
AFAD has prepared tools for obtaining monitoring and evaluation of students' opinions and feedback from students and graduates on the quality of the study programme and its improvement.
1. The school displays semester and final works through the AFAD End Semester Exhibition, where all students, regardless of the quality of the output, are presented in the form of an academy exhibition on the academy grounds or in other galleries and cultural institutions, or in a public space. The Exhibition is available to a wide professional and general public.
2. Student survey (Operation of the school, Teaching, Teaching of theoretical and professional subjects, Teaching in studios). The survey is conducted and evaluated by representatives of the student part of the AFAD Academic Senate and the Education Commission of the AS AFAD.
3. Written suggestions by post, electronic mail and to the physical mailboxes of the AFAD vice-rectors, the AFAD Academic Senate, the AFAD Ethics Committee, and the Study Office and International Office of the AFAD.
The results of feedback from students and graduates and related measures to improve the quality of the study programme will be described in the Regulation for the internal system of ensuring the quality of higher education provided at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava.
The results of feedback from students and graduates and related measures to improve the quality of the study programme will be described in the Regulation for the internal system of ensuring the quality of higher education provided at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava.
1.Study regulations:
https://www.vsvu.sk/workspace/media/documents/studijny-poriadok-v-zneni-d1.pdf,
https://www.vsvu.sk/workspace/media/documents/vp_1_2020-dodatok-2-k-studijnemu-poriadku.pdf
2.Internal regulations on the admission process at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava:
https://www.vsvu.sk/workspace/media/documents/vp-9-2021-vnu-torny-predpis-o-priji-macom-konani-na-vs-vu.pdf
3.Internal letter on completion of bachelor's/master's studies (which, after being updated in a given academic year, is published in AIS and at the same time sent via e-mail to students of the final year).
4.Internal regulation 3/2020, Rector's directive to ensure a generally accessible environment for students with specific needs:
https://www.vsvu.sk/workspace/media/documents/vp_3_2020-studenti-specificke-potreby.pdf
https://www.vsvu.sk/en/standard-study/informations-for-students/students-with-specific-needs/?v=8X0Q4WO0
5.Disciplinary rules for students of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava:
https://www.vsvu.sk/workspace/media/documents/disciplinarny-poriadok.pdf and published in AIS.
6.Internal regulations on tuition and fees:
https://www.vsvu.sk/workspace/media/documents/vp_2_2020-skolne-poplatky-2020-2021_oprava.pdf,
https://www.vsvu.sk/workspace/media/documents/vp-1-2022-vnutorny-predpis-o-skol_ak-rok-2022-2023_uz_clr.pdf,
https://www.vsvu.sk/en/standard-study/informations-for-students/tuition-fee-and-other-fees/?v=8X0Q4WO0
7.Codex of Ethics:
https://www.vsvu.sk/en/official-board/codex-of-ethics/
8.Internal regulation of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava no. 5/2017 (Rules of Procedure of the Academic Senate of the AFAD):
https://www.vsvu.sk/workspace/media/documents/vp_5_2017_rokovaci-poriadok-as-vsvu.pdf
9.Principles of the admission process at the AFAD:
https://www.vsvu.sk/workspace/media/documents/zasady_vyberoveho_konania_na_vsvu_platne_od_01092013-5239a3d7ec881.pdf
https://www.vsvu.sk/workspace/media/documents/vp_2_2021-vseobne-kriteria-na-obsadzovanie-funcii-profesorov-a-docentov.pdf
https://www.vsvu.sk/workspace/media/documents/vp_7_2021-konkretne-kriteria-na-obsadzovanie-funcii-profesorov-a-docentov.pdf
10.Internal regulations and information on the realisation of the AFAD foreign mobilities:
https://www.vsvu.sk/en/international/students-mobility/?v=8X0Q4WO0
https://www.vsvu.sk/en/exchange-student/?v=BO335VOZ
https://www.vsvu.sk/workspace/media/documents/vp_7_2019-realizacia-erasmus-plus.pdf
https://www.vsvu.sk/en/international/?v=8X0Q4WO0
https://www.vsvu.sk/en/international/internationalisation-strategy/?v=8X0Q4WO0
https://www.vsvu.sk/workspace/media/documents/erasmus-charter-for-higher-education-2021-2027.pdf
11.Information regarding study and study organisation:
ECTS handbook: https://www.vsvu.sk/workspace/media/documents/ects_prirucka-521ca2201cef2.pdf
Study organisation:
https://www.vsvu.sk/en/standard-study/organization-of-study/?v=8X0Q4WO0
https://www.vsvu.sk/en/standard-study/bachelor-studies/?v=8X0Q4WO0
Files to download: https://www.vsvu.sk/en/downloads/