Immeasurably Small and Inconceivably Immense

3 units

The path one takes when 'following the materials' is not a linear one. Rather, one encounters complex and anachronistic layers, incorporating references that point beyond canonical boundaries. This course is the second installment of the media and materiality seminar. In addition to mapping the genealogy of the formation of materiality as a concept, this course brings up notions of matters and materials, dematerialization, immateriality, intermateriality, transmateriality, and material in-formation in contemporary media studies. We will continue our investigations of way that media mediate material relations and explores possibilities for the media to be understood as varied environments. The course format consists mainly of small lecture sessions and active reading discussions which are moderated by the faculty but led by the students. In addition, there is a semester long and hand on materiality in-formation project. Through this project, we will utilize visualization and 3D projection mapping to bring focus on the moments when materials leave behind the confines of their conventional roles and become willful actors to engage the audience with layers of critical fabulation about potential futures of eroded pasts, roads not taken, and stories untold.