Registration ends 07.4.2026 at 23:59 h

How can media art help us critically engage, disrupt, or reimagine the ways we interact with technology? This seminar explores the dynamic intersection of media art and digital technology, combining insights and methodologies from critical theory and artistic examples. We will examine the technical side of digital media—its hardware, software, and data—through the lens of media art that reflects, critiques, or subverts these technological foundations. From early generative art to internet and browser-based art, we will look at how artists engage with digital technology as a tool, a subject, and a weapon. Assigned readings will ground our discussions within broader theoretical frameworks, drawing from software studies, media archaeology, and science and technology studies.

References:
"How We Became Posthuman" by Katherine Hayles
"Programmed Visions" by Wendy Chun
"A Prehistory of the Cloud" by Tung-Hui Hu
"The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" by Shoshana Zuboff

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