Special Topics in New Media

Critical Spatial Visualisation: Dimension, Representation, Mapping, Digitalities This course introduces graduate students to the basic concepts of spatial visualisation from a critical, situated and political perspective, across both theory and practice. With the proliferation of multi-dimensional in-browser tools to visualize across multiple dimensions, pathways have been opened up to push previously established limits of digital knowledge production and epistemic justice. Critical Spatial Visualization revisits the interrogations of digital epistemologies taken by scholars from Indigenous, anti-colonial, black, queer and feminist perspectives to ask if, and how, these new technologies might open up alternative possibilities for critical and situated representational practices, and what new limits have arisen? This course is designed for graduate students interested in the practice of coding and digital representation as well as theoretical critique. Alongside discussion of theoretical texts in the field, students will co-learn 3D javascript and web development. There is no technical pre-requisite for the course - all are welcome.