Cultural History of The Screen:

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Whether large, small, wide, high-definition, public, personal, shared, or handheld, screens are one of the most pervasive technologies in everyday life. From spaces of work to spaces of leisure, screens are sites for collaboration, performance, surveillance, and resistance. This course traces the cultural history of screens through a range of forms -- from panorama to cinema, radar system to television, and terminal to mobile device -- to understand the development of the screen as simultaneously architectural, material, representational, and computational.