Sr Sem: Design Crit Networks

PLDS 4005 | Fall 2011 | Faculty: Jonah Brucker-Cohen

This course introduces students to networked art practice through a critical examination of culture, media, and theory. The course will begin by grounding students with social theory and other literature behind these types of projects and examine networks and networking technologies in order to expose questions about networks and their integration into society as a whole. Students will write weekly blog posts on their responses to the readings and create an in-class activity that identifies discreet data sets and social causes they are interested in pairing to these sets in order to produce a fusion of networking technology and social criticism. The end result will be a deeper understanding of networks and how they can be used to deliver critical analysis and execution of multiple forms of connectivity, connected devices, and social networks. Pathway: Design Studies