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.

The semester course given by the curator Tali Ben Nun will deal with the relationship 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.

By means of 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.

Supervision, review and discussion course that will walk students through toward their graduate exhibition and help them feel that they are not alone (for better and worse). The course aims to formulate original and personal creative processes in order to enable the student to focus on the topic he or she is interested in. the course will require a presentation of a personal project as an expression of profound and intensive work processes.

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, 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.

Every third-year student can choose an artist and become their apprentice. Students can choose any artist-photographer-person-of-culture, whose practice coincides with the field of the student, and who could advance them toward the end-of-the-year exhibition. The relationship will be reciprocal, and the student will help the artist but also learn and receive supervision from him or her.