FA 3030 - Digital Arts: Theory and Practice of New Media

The history of New Media is at the nexus of postmodern inquiries into global cultural performances, creative practices, and information management. This course explores "the genealogy of the computer as an expressive medium", and asks: is it significant that our identities, in the global society in the 21st century, are increasingly constituted by our creation and consumption of new media? Coursework provides stimulus to speculate about the role of art, technology, and authority in a mass mediated global society.