These classes were conducted from 2007 - 2008 while an Artist in Residence with the Centre for Experimental Media Arts (CEMA) at the Srishti School of Art, Design & Technology in Bangalore, India.
FALL 2007
Classes Taught
Humanities 400: INFORMATION ECOLOGY (3 Credits)
Foundation 200: COPYING IS COOL (2 Credits)
Foundation 200: A2B (2 Credits)
Foundation 200: LAYOUT GLOBAL TSHIRT CULTURE (2 Credits)
Experimental Media Arts 600: Environmental Broadcasting (4 Credits)
Classes Co-Taught
Studio 400: USER ETHNOGRAPHY OF TRANSPORTATION (2 Credits) [with Poonam Bir Kasturi]
Studio 400: Sustainable Design (2 Credits) [with Poonam Bir Kasturi]
Studio 400: Open Source Product Service Systems (3 Credits) [with Poonam Bir Kasturi]
Studio 400: Identity Design: Bangalore Space and Culture Symposium (1 Credit) [with Gabriel Harp]
Experimental Media Arts 600: Graduate Seminar: SpaceArts (6 Credits) [with Gabriel Harp and Yashas Shetty]
Experimental Media Arts 600: Graduate Seminar: BioArts (6 Credits) [with Gabriel Harp and Yashas Shetty]
Workshops Taught
Circuit Bending
Information Design
VJing
In addition, I have advised Advanced Diploma students Prayas Abhinav (on his City Spinning work) and Dharmang Prajapati.
From global climate change to information overload, humans enter the 21st century in a world in which systems are out of control. Don’t be scared, out of control just means innovation. Or the end of the world. It depends on your point of view. Drawing on the fields of chaos theory, cybernetics, and complexity theory, students will be introduced to some of the properties of complex adaptive systems, and how they might relate to the information economy we finds ourselves in.
Using these ideas the class will collaborate on information designs and small interactivity projects. Topics we will cover include the value of diversity, cognitive justice, mental environmentalism and complex adaptive systems.
Readings include:
Kevin Kelly’s Out of Control
Adbusters Magazine
Norbert Wiener
COPYING IS COOL: REMIX CULTURE, ORIGINALITY AND UTOPIAN PLAGIARISM
Information wants to be free, but not cheap (The issues are complex)
Intellectual property is socially constructed, and different regimes favor different actors
Rubbing any information together creates wealth
Readings / Resources Include:
Critical Art Ensemble’s THE ELECTRONIC DISTURBANCE Chapter 5. Utopian Plagiarism, Hypertextuality, and Electronic Cultural Production (.pdf)
STAY FREE‘S ILLEGAL ART COMPILATION CD
William S. Burroughs and the Cut Up technique
LAYOUT: GLOBAL T SHIRT CULTURE
The purpose of this class is to create a research magazine that explores, analyzes, critiques and compares the state of T-Shirt culture in Bangalore, India in relation to the rest of the world.
By T-shirt culture we mean the production, consumption of material (cotton / polyester / ink / thread) and messages (images and text on shirts) printed on T-Shirts, and the networks of relationships that are formed around these processes.
These are some of the reasons why T-shirts were chosen as a subject for inquiry:
-UBIQUITY. They are everywhere in our mental environment.
-NOVELTY. They are a relatively new form of apparel in the history of mankind.
-HEGEMONY. The spread of T-Shirts directly parallels the United States rise to global political and economic dominance.
-DROMOLOGY. The rate at which messages on T-Shirts lose their relevance parallels the overall increase in the speed of cultural dissemination and information devaluation.
-YOUTH. T-Shirts are a key element in the social construction of youth culture, “cool” and a sense of belonging in the global village.
USER ETHNOGRAPHY OF TRANSPORTATION
CIRCUIT BENDING
