SM6344 - Technology and Aesthetics | ||||||||
| ||||||||
* The offering term is subject to change without prior notice | ||||||||
Course Aims | ||||||||
This course inquires into the fundamental relation between aesthetics and technology and the possible responses of art in our technological epoch dominated by discourses of artificial intelligence, transhumanism, eco-modernism, surveillance societies, etc. This technological epoch is also characterized by the Anthropocene, in which the humans become the dominating geological force, ecological mutations, and extinction of species. What would be the possibility of art, especially media art, in face of this metaphysical force, which is modern technology? This necessitates a re-opening of the concept of technology and aesthetics as well as their relations. The history of modern and contemporary art seems to have privileged a particular trajectory of aesthetics and a particular relation between art and technology, consequently creates an impasse for thinking. This course wants to reintroduce the varieties of experience of art, for example and not limited to, the East and the West, and ask how can it contribute to the reconceptualization of technology and aesthetics today. | ||||||||
Assessment (Indicative only, please check the detailed course information) | ||||||||
Continuous Assessment: 100% | ||||||||
Detailed Course Information | ||||||||
SM6344.pdf | ||||||||
Useful Links | ||||||||
School of Creative Media |