Art, Media and Technology

Catalog description

A critical practice-based inquiry into the intersection of art and technology in contemporary culture. This studio/theory hybrid course familiarizes students with a variety of technologies and platforms that increasingly impact and shape the production and interpretation of contemporary art, culture, and society. Through a combination of studio exercises, focused readings of contemporary artists’ work, training sessions, and discussions that explore the course’s texts, students are given the opportunity to experiment with emerging digital technologies in their artistic practice as well as critically reflect on the diverse systems, infrastructures, and histories that inform the role of technology in the arts. Situated within an interdisciplinary frame, the course broadly reflects on the relationships between the sciences and the humanities through the study of technology and the arts, examining their disciplinary, methodological, and philosophical underpinnings.