Disturbances: Art and Technology

Ricardo Dominguez

Syllabus: CAT3_SP13_Dominguez_Syllabus.pdf

 We will explore how art has interacted, shifted, and disturbed the frame of technology on multiple scales during the 20th and 21st centuries. With a special focus on the 1980’s and 1990’s when networked computing, biology, and edge technologies, such as nanotechnology emerged as spaces for art production. Many of the art projects we will consider have approached the frame of technology as a site for creating works that are often critical of the platforms being used. These art works have also created large-scale social and political responses that allow us to imagine what the future may look like, feel like, and what it might mean to be human in a post-human world. The class will work towards developing a final art project that uses older, current, or imagined technologies to create an aesthetic, social, and technological disturbance.  

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