Special Topics courses offer students opportunities for more concentrated focus beyond general curriculum offerings. Courses may align with an instructor’s own research, they may propose topics responding to contemporary events and issues, or they may offer a specialized skill. Primarily intended for advanced undergraduates and graduates in Art Practice but open to others.

This course will explore the role of the historic, material, political, and artistic perspectives of technology systems beginning with some of the earliest forms of artificial lighting up to emerging Internet of Things devices. Through collective exercises and individual iterative projects, this class will provide a framework in which to look critically at the evolution of technology and the implications of new, networked devices. The course will introduce a range of material and ephemeral approaches to projects including hands-on deconstruction, as well as speculative design experiments. Students will have a chance to expand their thinking of what digital media can be, while developing a broader critical perspective on how we interact with technology.

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