Speculative Stages: Shaping Future Technology through Performance

4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

Seminar, three hours. Requisite: course C212A or C212B. Exploration of how stories, particularly in embodied speculative fiction, shape the way technologies are imagined, built, and used in real life. Through theory, discussion, and experimentation, exploration of the interplay between fiction and reality. Focus both on how 20th- and 21st-century speculative fiction has impacted the technology that we use today and how staging new and different fictions could impact collective imaginaries and future technologies. Concurrently scheduled with course C112C. Letter grading.