4.381/4.391
Advanced Visual Design—Give me shelter:
Conditions of Living in Unstable Times
Instructor: Amber Frid-Jimenez
Office: N51-319
Telephone:617-254-2035
amber@media.mit.edu
4.381
Level:
G
Units: 3-3-6
4.366
Level:
U
Units: 3-3-6
Prerequisites: permission of instructor
Class limit: 12
** Undergraduate Students will be able to petition for HASS-E credit.**
Introduces an overview of web-based platforms as means through which to explore the cultural, social, political, and economic impact of mediated communication. Hands-on design exercises and experiments are continually framed and examined by critical reflection and discussions. An overview of historical “art for all” and participatory art practices, of early net-art and current public art practices will show how digital communication and culture have altered the way in which collaboration occurs, changing conventional notions of authorship and giving rise to the collective elaboration of meaning.
This seminar/workshop is taught in two parts. The Monday Night@VAP lecture series entitled Zones of Emergency co-organized by VAP Director Ute Meta Bauer and Lecturer Jae Rhim Lee will be open to the public, but will be considered a lab for the course. Lectures and panel discussions will serve to contextualize the theory of participatory design practices in times of emergency. This course is being co-organized with Jae Rhim Lee (4.365: Understanding the Problem: Research as Artistic Practice - FEMA Trailer Project).
Course Requirements:
The course has been designed as both a studio and seminar, in which students are expected to develop a main project throughout the term for presentation during finals. Requirements are mandatory attendance to lectures and workshops, completion of the weekly assignments, completion of mid-term, and participation in the final presentation.
