Teaching methods for practical classes applying pragmatic theory in the context of modern didactics using: current, developmental and relational learning methods. Modern didactics towards tutoring and cauching.

1. Introductory lecture (team work in the form of a multimedia presentation aimed to introduce the Laboratory).
2. Presentations, workshop demonstrations related to the implemented: techniques, exercises, tasks
3. Workshop exercises (individual and group activities developing skills and proficiency in using the craft developed at the Studio on the borderline between traditional and new arts in the context of intermedia activities). Convergence of media.
4. Studio exercises (individual and group activities based on experimental work, observation and analysis, interpersonal and relational communication, searching for codes at the junction of image and text in the multilayered semiotic and media).
5. Creative exercises (individual and group activities based on experiments between existing media, searching for new imagery in the context of art, culture and science to define and deconstruct their own artistic concepts and activities).
6. Dialogue and didactic discussion - conversation (individual and team activities related to the conduct of individual projects, mandatory and credit reviews).
7. Individual projects ( the implementation of the individual artistic project, thesis and the development of the exhibition space).
8. Group projects (realization of a group art project, thesis).
9. Diploma seminar (individual and group classes preparing students to defend their diploma thesis).
10. E-learning (classes with the use of hardware, software and Internet).

Second year of bachelor's degree.
Passed board exam after first and second semester of the first year.

Third year of bachelor's degree.
Passing grade in the second year of the bachelor's degree.

Second year of the Bachelor's degree
1. Passing the final exam in the second year of studies of the Bachelor's degree.
2. Preparation of a presentation of work to be exhibited during the final year exhibition.

Third year of the Bachelor's degree
1. Completion of practical thesis including the description of the work.
2. Preparing a presentation of the thesis for exhibition.
3. Making it public and defending the diploma.

Evaluation criteria.
1. Evaluation of the quality, artistic and technical level of the presented works.
2. Regularity of work and participation in reviews.
3. Independence within the creative work.
4. Cooperation skills.
5. Assessment of the ability to use own means of expression.
6. Assessment of the effectiveness of translating the acquired knowledge and skills into the final diploma project at the Academy of Fine Arts.
7. Assessment of the level of knowledge and logical reasoning concerning the specialization of intermedia in the context of interdisciplinary education (lectures, conversation classes).
8. Assessment of the level of involvement in the implementation of the curriculum in the Intermedia Communications Studio.
9. Assessment of the level of public presentation of the final work or thesis.
10. Evaluation of participation in the diploma seminar, in the case of 3rd year students.
11. The grading scale established in accordance with the scoring scale in force at the Faculty of Media Art.

The Bachelor's thesis.
A student takes diploma exam at the end of the 6th semester. The Bachelor's thesis consists of a practical work realized within the framework of one of the two specializations offered at the Faculty of Media Art and a description of the work prepared under the guidance of a supervisor of the Bachelor's thesis.

The practical Bachelor's thesis is presented in the form of an exhibition (the form depends on the topic and the nature of realization), to which the student is obliged to prepare a written study in the form of a description of the work. The work is evaluated in committee by the supervisor and the diploma committee.
The Bachelor's diploma aims at creating one of the forms of intermedia art: post-media image, video art as intermedium, videoperformance, interactive visual space.

Theoretical Bachelor's thesis - a description of the work with an assessment of the content and artistic level of the Bachelor's thesis in the Intermedia Communication Studio.

Education - space for development connected with upbringing and formation of the student between
subjectivity of the individual and the social dimension of human existence.

Curriculum content (course content).
The Intermedia Communication Studio is a place for reflection on the relationship between word, image, sound, space and presence in the first degree program in the context of the 3m: medium, message, mediation.

The Intermedia Communication Studio functions in the field of intermedia methods, areas and phenomena. It is a place of searching, experimenting and researching in the field of communication, intermedia and their mutual dependence. The starting point is reality (everyday life), its interpretation and basic human relations.

The program of the course Intermedia Communication assumes, apart from realizing selected concepts or resigning from them, intuitive actions, improvisations, which lead to conscious creation. Students find and choose appropriate tools (manual and digital), with which they feel comfortable and which they want to use. Referring one medium to another and perceiving one medium through another brings an answer to the context and relationship in which they wish to use the chosen means of expression.
Issues addressed:
- Media Art viewed linguistically, technologically and aesthetically,
- between art and humanities,
- mediality of the aforementioned art in terms of perception, analysis, representation and interpretation,
- its relationality, processuality and contextuality,
- space for critical reflection.
We seek answers by combining opposing elements (construction - deconstruction, defining - redefining). We overcome our own limits. We try difficult, often intimate experiences. We experiment. We try to get closer to the elusive, non-verbalised sensations. We acquire a different perspective of perception and, trying not to destroy the results already achieved, we delve more consciously into the creative process - until the final practical work is created.
We understand education as a space for development related to the upbringing and education of the student, situated between the subjectivity of the individual and the social dimension of human existence.

Purpose of the classes
The Intermedia Communication Studio is a place for reflection between word, image, sound, space and presence in the first degree program in the context of the 3m: medium, message, mediation.
Acquiring the ability to use digital and analog media and to intermediate, collaborate, perceive, represent, communicate experiences and values is one of the key competencies. Also important is the ability to read media messages freely with an understanding of the main content. From functional to reflective use of media. Between subject and object of social relations.

The starting point is reality (everyday life), its interpretation and basic human relations. We search for answers overcoming our own limits by combining opposing elements (construction - deconstruction, defining - redefining). Students collect appropriate tools (manual and digital), become familiar with the workshop and the techniques used in the studio. They get closer to authentic, elusive, non-verbalized sensations and find topics that will become the basis for building their diploma work. They acquire a different perspective of perception and further delve into the creative process between art and science.

The aim of education in the studio is to break stereotypes in thinking and practical action that hinder, prevent or delay the necessary development of each of us, above all in the field of interest of experience and exploration in art education in the term communication and intermedia and their interdependence.
The curriculum is designed to gradually and thoroughly prepare students to express themselves in intermedia communication and to acquire the skills needed for interdisciplinary group work, both in the internal and external artistic environment.
The culmination of coursework supported by the scientific and technical knowledge gained in the classroom is the Bachelor's degree.

Bachelor's level: professional-artistic diploma:
1. Working on text, image, sound, object and space in the context of the 3m: medium, message, mediation.
2. Perceiving space through the senses individually, in relation to others.
3. Translating emotions and perceptions of intermedia communication into manual and digital activities
4. Becoming acquainted with the techniques developed in the studio, workshop.
5. Searching for own language on the basis of the interpenetration of classical and digital media
6. Finding topics, which will become the basis for the work
7. Precising the message, content in relation to the viewer.
8. Completing the tools needed to carry out the project.
9. Determining the interaction with the viewer, or lack thereof.
10. Creation of an artistic diploma in the case of a third-year bachelor's degree.
11. Defining the exposition of the work for the most appropriate results.

Literature.
The reading list is supplemented on an ongoing basis as new publications appear.
Literature is selected individually according to knowledge, interests and individual artistic realizations.
European literature (both prose and poetry)
Monographic albums
Theme/problem albums

Exemplary items from the Studio's library:

1. Oskar Schlemmer, Eksperymentalna scena Bauhausu, wyd. słowo/obraz terytoria, Gdańsk 2010.
2. Arnold Berleant, Prze-Myśleć Estetykę, wyd. Universitas, Kraków 2007.
3. Andrzej Gwóźdź, Kino po kinie, wyd. Oficyna Naukowa, Warszawa 2010.
4. Piotr Celiński, Interfejsy, wyd. Monografie FNP ,Wrocław2010.
5. Lev Manovich, Język nowych mediów, wyd. Akademickie i profesjonalne, Warszawa 2006.
6. Kluszczyński Ryszard, Społeczeństwo inofmacyjne. Cyberkultura. Sztuka multimediów, wyd. Uniwersitas, Rabid 2001.
7. Maryla Hopfinger, Nowe media w komunikacji społecznej w XX wieku, wyd. Oficyna naukowa, 2002.
8. Lucio Russo, Zapomniana rewolucja. Grecka myśl naukowa a nauka nowoczesna, wyd. Universitas, Kraków 2005.

Pre-requisites.
Use of basic tools characteristic for intermedia workshop.

Requirements for didactic aids.
1. Basic courses for first-year students of Media Art Department of Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
2. Current activity of all information, culture and art activities in the real and virtual world.
3. Studio for manual/workshop-graphic work, daylight and artificial lighting of workstations.
4. Equipment for recording, image and sound processing, technologically up to date for a given time: desktop and mobile computers with software (Adobe extended package, Processing, MadMapper, VJ programs, interactive applications), Arduino with a set of cables and sensors, kinect, camera, indoor / outdoor multimedia projector, projection background, console, controller, speakers, studio lighting, digital camera, recorder, tablet, tripod, headphones, scanner, printer.
5. Possibility of darkening the studio during work, shows and presentations of work.
6. Access to the Internet.