FA 300 AF - Arts and Technology in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries
This course explores the history and theory of the relationships between various cultural forms and the technologies involved in their production, distribution and consumption. There is also an analysis of the anxieties surrounding technological evolution and the cyborg as metaphor. The content of the course includes discussions of mass media, crafts and amateur arts, architecture and design, performance and audio art, film, video, music, literature, theatre, animation, and visual arts. This course promotes a critical approach, taking up the complex signifiers of race, ethnicity, sex, gender, sexuality, and class as they relate to the arts, and as part of an ongoing integrative framework.
