FGSS 1109

FWS: Technologies of Desire

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2016-2017.

The goal of this seminar is to introduce the student to an understanding of the convergence of contemporary art and new technologies and use this understanding to focus on issues of sex, sexuality, and gender identity from a creative and analytical perspective.  We will explore the shared concerns and topics that bring new media artworks together with these critical concepts and issues.  This seminar will approach new media art as a condensed terrain which brings the following questions and topics together: eroticism/ technology, carnal desires/ cyber sexualities, hybrid, alien, and digital bodies and desires, cyberspace/ gender identity, embodiment/ virtuality, and self/ bodily extensions.  These subjects will be explored through a wide variety of artworks ranging from digital art, installations, interactive art, performance art, internet art, video games, robots, cyborgs, and avatars.

When Offered Fall.

Satisfies Requirement First-Year Writing Seminar.

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