VA202 Winter 2003 Grad Seminar: Media & Digital practices
Gender, Race and Technology: Histories, Insights, and Practices
Gender, Race and Technology: Histories, Insights, and Practices
This practice seminar is focussed on critical perspectives, histories and strategies in "high technology" that have arisen from the artwork and institutional
critiques of feminists and people of color. Globalization and science and technology research consistently exploit technological progress, often using the
needs of women and people in "developing countries" as their model beneficiaries. During the course, we will utitize social histories and ethnographies to
consider the belief in technological solutions as one particular value system. In addition, we will look more closely at examples of art and creative research
that critique technophilic desire even as they use technology to create transcendent forms of communication and engagement.
Students of all genders and ethnic backgrounds are encouraged to join this seminar on these important area of research, thinking and innovation.
Classes will be organized around themes and questions, including:
Students of all genders and ethnic backgrounds are encouraged to join this seminar on these important area of research, thinking and innovation.
Classes will be organized around themes and questions, including:
- Technology and Colonization
- Opting out: embracing obsolescence
- WhatÕs at stake in the drive for disembodiment
- Gender & Race masquerade in online performance
- the evolutions of cyber-feminism
- Globalization, High technology and the politics of technological infrastructure
- Opting out: embracing obsolescence
- WhatÕs at stake in the drive for disembodiment
- Gender & Race masquerade in online performance
- the evolutions of cyber-feminism
- Globalization, High technology and the politics of technological infrastructure
Some texts being considered:
Adas, Michael, Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance (Cornell University Press, Ithaca & London, 1989)
Nakamura, Lisa, Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet (Routledge, NY & London, 2002)
Nelson, Alondra, Thuy Linh N. Tu, and Alicia Headlam Hines,eds. Technicolor: Race, Technology and everyday life (New York University press, New York, 2001)
Sassen, Saskia, Globalization and its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobillity of People and Money, ( The New Press, NY, 1998)
Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, Issue 4: CYBERFEMINISMS
Ullman, Ellen, Close to the Bone,
Selections from listserve discussions on nettime, undercurrents, sarai, etc.
As a "practice" seminar, short creative assignments (in the form of media/new media, drawing, writing, and which can encompass ongoing projects) will combine with modest weekly writing to result in an in-depth and active exploration of the topics at hand.