Description
The seminar will speculate on how novel interfaces, technologies and emerging intelligences will further shape visual culture. By making the invisible visible we hope to frame new perspectives on "immaterial technologies" that both carry cultural meanings and produce material phenomena. During this course, students will study artists and inventors who have been working with light and space and revisit prototypes of technologies that have defined the relationship between pictorial and three-dimensional space. The seminar will be working with a render engine, a visual instrument compiled of multiple robotic actuated screens and cameras. Students will pick from a number of themes and assemble a collection of assets, sourced and produced with techniques such as 3d scanning, data mining, algorithmic modeling and photography. Working with these datasets, the seminar will explore the space of possibilities within this environment, and score a series of latent objects, spatial narratives, and