4.330/4.331 Networked Cultures and Participatory Media

We examine the ethical, aesthetic and architectural challenges of engaging the dynamic information that defines our networked lives. Open source innovation empowers the individual as the technology that drives social media develops. At the same time, advances in robotics, informatics and remote sensing create situations where individual social interactions become remote, and disembodied: wars are fought by drones controlled from video consoles thousands of miles away. In this hands-on, project-based studio course, we use design exercises to develop a new design language for embodied information and the architectural bodywear or structures to facilitate it. The ideological framing will draw from theories and practice in new media, cybernetics, information design, film, art, and fashion. Students will also attend the Monday Nights @VAP Lecture Series. HASS-CI class: undergraduates expected to complete 20 pages of writing assignments. Lab fee $65.

Fall 2009

Lecturer: Amber Frid-Jimenez
Meets: M 10:30 AM-1:30 PM in N51-315
Recitation: M 7-9 PM in N51-337
4.331 Graduate Level Subject
Units: 3-3-6
4.330 Undergraduate Level Subject
Units: 3-3-6
HASS-Cl
Prerequisites: permission of instructor