Description
This course explores how digital networks are reshaping our world culturally, politically, and materially. We’ll begin with Photography, New Media Art, and Conceptualism as historical modes most often associated with the“post-internet” art of the 2010s. We will examine ideologies underlying early cyber-culture and how that affects the material realities of our networks today. Students will engage with cyberpunk, cyberfeminisms, and the work of contemporary artists to discover technology’s embedded power structures and bias, as well as its liberatory potential. Collaborative ‘networked’ projects, online publishing, photographic (re)representation, modes of URL exhibition, and personal research will be undertaken by students.