Description
How do we practice seeing through systems? What language do we use for a machine learning to look at us, or the wake of an algorithm? What can criticism offer when the design of computation disappears makers’ motives? Criticism in the Age of AI explores the craft of developing a hybrid, strategic, collective and dissident criticism of technology. To navigate a future created by predictive systems, our language must move with intelligent systems. Through experimental writing efforts, we will practice articulating our often baffling, hard-to-define experiences using, thinking, and living with technologies from early software to quantum computing. Throughout, we will look at technology as a symbolic system that shapes our cognition. We’ll practice slow, analytical thinking to counter the speed, scale, and dizzying imperatives of techno-solutionist production. Students will leave with their own language toolbox: a set of revisable critical methods to identify a vast range of hidden fiction