A theoretical course surveying contemporary art from the conceptual art of the 1970s to today’s art. The course will deal with the transition from modernism to post-modernism and with expressions of post-modern notions in contemporary works.

A theoretical and applied workshop where we will examine the concept of space and its variants, study the language of artistic installation, and investigate the possibilities of artistic practice in the various media: video, interactive design, photographic installation, and sculpture. The installation and space are a language that relates to different visual representations and examines a physical and conceptual space. The aim of the course is to create a group exhibition from the material studied in the second semester.

The course aims to equip students with an advanced video editing toolbox, while studying the After Effects software and the variety of features it offers; to experiment with post-production techniques extracted from the world of commercial television and implemented in the world of art.

During this course, students will be exposed to the history of sculpture and to artists who link sculpture and new media. Students will experiment with the expansion of the media of sculpture and its linkage to technology / new media: engines, light, sound, solenoid, etc. The course will introduce basic concepts and tools in new media, which can contribute to the creation process of contemporary art.

Students of this course will be introduced, for the first time, to the connection between photography and video works, and space.
With personal and class assignments, students will articulate a new language that includes the photography medium and challenges its modes of presentation. During the course, students will watch contemporary materials and collaborate with alternative spaces across Jerusalem.

The semester course given by the curator Tali Ben Nun will deal with the interrelation between the photograph (image or object) and the space where it is presented. In the course we will address various approaches to positioning in photography and video art, stressing questions of content, context, and narrative, juxtaposed with questions of formalism, conceptualism, materialism, and aestheticism.
Through discussion combining visual and theoretical content, exercises, presentations, and visits to exhibitions – we will delve into various issues pertaining to positioning (size, format, hanging, display, type of space, grammar and more), what its role is in the proposed reading of a work and in which way it affects the encounter with the observer.

This course will grant students in their third year, knowledge for self-promotion upon completion of their studies. Through conversations, lectures and experience, the student will acquire the necessary tools for navigating his or her path outside the warm school environment. Among the content in the course are tools for internet promotion, a mapping of exhibit spaces in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, acquaintance with scholarships and prizes in Israel and around the world, promotion of group initiatives, establishing of a professional studio, event photography, financial conduct, artwork, and exhibition documentation, writing texts, copyright and more.