SHUM 6703

The Glitch: Errors, Disability, and the Edges of Digital Media

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025.

A "glitch" is when something goes "wrong" in digital media—sometimes, however, it is precisely when something "fails" that can tell us about the structures and forces that underlie that media. In this course we'll be exploring a wide variety of examples of how media creators, artists, hackers, game developers, Deaf and disability activists, and other marginalized groups from across the world (with a particular focus on Japan) have used "glitches" to tell us something new about the digital, looking at works ranging from electronic literature to online horror stories to experimental video games and installation art.

When Offered Spring.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

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