ART 6933 Art + Technology Graduate Seminar is a revolving topics graduate-level course. Topics in the past have focused on Interface (2006), Relational Aesthetics (2007), Embodiment (2008), Subjectivity (2009), Politics (2010), Critical Utopia (2011), Nothing (2012), Technogenesis (2013), Sociation (2014), Disaster (2015), Whatever (2016), Privilege (2017), Power Failure (2018), and Art and Class (2020).

For Fall 2021 we will consider artificial intelligence from a “pharmakological” perspective. In simple terms: what poison does AI portend and what cure might it propose? We will discuss modes with which cultural practitioners might engage the advance of artificial intelligence, empowering us to make meaningful, material, social change (or not). The seminar will include visiting speakers and field trips along with reading, reflecting, arguing and discussing a broad range of historical, theoretical, and creative works in an individual and small group format. For the “makers", the course is conceived as a companion to the hands-on, workshop-oriented, ART6925C Experiments in ARTificial Intelligence.