66-6705 History of New Media

New media cannot be understood through technological particulars alone, it must be understood through its historical relation to other disciplines such as film, cultural studies, and media studies, computer science, philosophy and image sciences. This course looks at a number of theorists who interrogate ‘new media’. Hypertext, the Internet, the open source movement, interactivity, and digital video are some of the topics investigated against a backdrop of automation, neural networks and scientific visualization.

3 Credits
PREREQUISITES: 66-6701 Art As Discourse