Experimental 3-D (DIG-0101)

Fall 2024 · DIG 0101 · Tufts University · 4 credits · Undergraduate

This course is an inquiry into how technology has changed culture in the past twenty years. It is both a practical studio-based class, and a seminar on critical concepts. Students will learn to incorporate new technologies into their artworks. Concurrently, we will read and discuss theoretical texts that examine the vast cultural realignment brought about by new digital technologies for production, consumption, and circulation.We will explore practical techniques for advanced audio and video installation, video projection mapping, motion tracking, using data from Twitter and Flickr, data visualization/sonification, and hardware/software interface. Based on readings from Jacques Ranciere, Giorgio Agamben, Vilem Flusser, David Joselit, Hito Steyerl, and John Kelsey, seminar discussion topics will include the spectacle, ahistoricism, attention and distraction, the influence of algorithms, the death of copyright and privacy, the redefinition of community and individual. Concepts developed in seminar discussion will ideally inform the content of the work students make for the class.This course is appropriate for students who have at least some experience with video, and who are comfortable engaging with critical concepts. Non-SMFA students and MAT Art Education students will receive a letter grade.

Course codes: DIG-0101, DIG 0101, DIG0101, DIG-101, DIG 101, DIG101

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