Art, Design, and Electronic Culture (Future Tense Lecture Series Edition)
The Anteater Learning Pavilion
UC Irvine
Irvine, CA
Instructor: Jesse Colin Jackson
Teaching Assistant: Zachary Korol Gold
Art 12A is an introduction to the historical and theoretical foundations of digital media art and design. The course traces how information technologies informed the growth of new expressive mediums, and considers how today’s pervasive digital culture evolved through interdisciplinary collaborations between artists, engineers, scientists and scholars. The course considers a range of ideas, essays, artworks, technologies and other materials created by visual artists, computer scientists, scholars, writers, musicians, performing artists, interface designers, cultural critics, and individuals working across disciplines. Through lectures, assignments, and discussion, students will examine critical issues relevant to digital media and related cultural phenomenon and will develop an appreciation of how art-making practices have shaped—and been shaped by—trajectories of technological change. This special section will be focused on Future Tense: Art, Complexity, and Uncertainty at the Beall Center for Art + Technology.
