Seminar: Media Art Practices

3 units

Media art-including digital and electronic art, and interactive media-has expanded the fields of contemporary art and design globally. While media art histories developed alongside art and cultural histories, film studies, and computer science, they remain distinct. Emphasizing key concepts that drive practices this seminar begins with the Industrial Revolution and early optical devices, and ends with the rise of electronic goods, the Internet, AI, and technoculture. Through lectures, oral presentations, and written papers, students gain an overview of the aesthetic, social, and political entwinements that have evolved between art, design, and technology over the past two centuries.