The seminar will examine the ways in which artists are using and inventing new technological tools to make art, and consider how technology and our communication environment has become a vital subject of commentary and critique by artists and critics. Many of the projects we will visit are installation or locative works best understood when engaged experientially, sometimes hands-on. Along the way, we will meet with a wide range of curators and critics who will help clarify our thinking and challenge our assumptions. While the seminar will be responsive to the rich mix of projects and esthetics on display, we will be particularly attuned to studying the contemporary aesthetic of “cut ‘n paste” or “remix” culture.

John Schott, Cinema and Media Studies

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