This course nurtures new artists who change the world of Visual Arts and Performing Arts.

Visual Artsl Art Course

The society full of visual image is changing at high speed with evolution of media. In such society, what is required to future creators is the originality, for example, what to express or how to express. Creative trials are repeated in order to find them, while seeing various categories of visual images and thinking carefully what visual images are and what visual image can do. This course crosses the borders mutually in the following five special fields. Documentary: Makoto Sato's seminar and another In this seminar, students recognize deeply the problem of the "truth and falsehood" in video pictures such as documentary films or TV news, and make a documentary film. This seminar explores an original visual expression while studying how concrete objects should be related to and how "reality" is reconstructed and made into a work.

Experimental visual image: Takashi Ito's seminar and another
In this seminar, students experiment pleasure and difficulty that the rich visual image which springs abruptly out of themselves is converted freely into a video image, and develop the problem of subconscious and unconscious which appear from there. In addition to experimental visual image, the various visual image expressions by various techniques and views are studied.

Movie: Kaizo Hayashi's seminar and another
In this seminar, students study the history of story films having formed the basis of visual image culture and the original expression method to make movies, and actually make a short film. This seminar performs practical lessons of investigating the whole concept of scenarios or presentations with front-line film directors.

CG animation: Ryuji Masuda's seminar and another
In this seminar, students experiment broad ranging animation expressions such as hand-drawn animation, computer-driven CG, and digitized photographs and videos in computers. Students recognize the basic principle that visual image is continuous motion of still images and explore the new creative world with this principle.

Media art: Takamitsu Kawarasaki's seminar and another
In this seminar, students explore image expressions not limited on the frame of TV or screens and time, such as visual installations, art works on the Internet or CD-ROMs, and interactive visual and musical performance. And the present and future of visual image society are explored by getting positively involved in the newest media techniques.

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Performing Arts Course

Various expressions from advanced media technology to Japanese tradition culture are explored. Under the lead of teachers who play active parts in the front line of each field of performing arts internationally, innovative educational and creative activities are performed while doing practical trainings or and performances centering on " Kyoto art theater" which was established first in a Japanese university. Students study creatively from the advanced expressions connected with visual image expression or media technology to the traditional performing arts that Japanese culture like Noh or Kabuki has developed, and search for the new possibility of the performing arts through trials of practical group creation. Although this course is divided roughly into the following four categories, it aims to study not individually but comprehensively.

Performance
Under various playmakers and stage directors, students know the width of expression of performance well, and learn flexible and conventional ways of body expressions, and learn the voice skill so as to speak Japanese beautifully and clearly as stage language, and learn performance on the video comprehensively.

Dance
Digging out the form and motion of everyday life, students investigate the body as stage expression from various angles and discover body language according to the diverse present dance expressions. Moreover, studentsinvestigate a contact point with dramatic expression and the relation between the body and space.

Playmaking and Stage direction
Students learn the way of writing "drama"as language used on stage, and the work of "Stage direction" which controls creation on stage in the relation with the performance. And, students explore their roles as center of stage expression, regarding both as fields close-linked mutually.

Staff work
In fields such as stage designs, lighting, sound, stage direction and producing, students acquire special techniques and the ways of having ideas of designs through actual works at a theater. And students pursue the creativity of the staff work in the performing arts from various viewpoints, while putting relation with visual image media into a view.

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