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“I want to be famous!” For a decade, this has been the most common response to the question “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Influencers, TV stars, D-listers – the media has exploded with celebrities who could not have existed even 20 years ago. But who actually gets to be famous?

This course introduces students to modalities for creating site-specific and immersive art and performance. Assignments will examine the work of artists who challenge the limitations of the physical, psychological and transactional spaces that have come to define conventional production models. Students will regularly receive prompts from which collaborative work will be workshopped, generated and presented.

The dirty, open secret of soft robotics is that no one has monetized it yet. Precisely because the full potential of emerging field of soft systems, particularly soft actuators, is unrealized, there are countless opportunities for curious innovators to discover or develop novel soft systems.

This is a chance for students to create an immersive interactive experience through a new experience platform known as DreamCube. Debuting on Fast Company’s 2022 list of most innovative products, the DreamCube is an immersive reality platform featuring projection-based walls and floor with lightning fast tracking or interactive objects.

Subtractive fabrication is a common manufacturing process that produces durable and functional objects. This class will cover multiple techniques on machining and milling raw material into custom parts. We will focus on both traditional and digital fabrication tools: lathe, CNC router, 4 axis mill, etc.

Exhibition design is the art of marrying experience and information. The best does so seamlessly; the very best surprise and delight you along the way. In this class, you will explore the craft of interactive exhibition design through practice.

With recent advances in hardware and software, millions of us now carry unprecedented spatial computing and world sensing technologies in our pockets. With these technologies in hand, how do we design AR experiences that are contextual at the core – that are sensitive to the spaces we inhabit and the behaviors of people in those spaces? How do we augment this better understanding of reality?

This course is open to students wanting to enrich their body intelligence, expression, and embodiment in the creative process and making of digital product design. With the incorporation of Mindfulness and Laban Movement Analysis, students will be able to understand the body as architecture and the qualities of embodied movement which will provide a basis for dealing with form-finding processes.

This two-point workshop covers the basics of paper engineering techniques (including folds, layers, dials and pull-tabs) to make movable designs that can be incorporated into your work. Weekly assignments and a final project.

A new world is emerging at the intersections of machine learning and physical computation that will offer wide-scale access to bringing intelligence to everyday devices and spaces at extremely low costs. In this course, students are offered the opportunity to become pioneers in a new field of hardware machine learning as they are introduced to the most used machine learning platform in the world…

This course provides a fresh look at new and revised curatorial, artistic and technological frameworks that explore the decoupling of art and technology from capitalist, colonial and draconian systems. By employing ‘reverse engineering’ as a conceptual tool for repair and repatriations, students will collectively rethink social, cultural and political systems pertaining to monetary, ethical, racial, human, machine learning structures via an artist and curatorially driven lens.

Su25 registration began in Albert on 02/10/25 and is currently ongoing through the Session Code add/drop dates listed here on Help. Summer is considered an optional term – meaning students may register for coursework, but this is not required. The department will run a limited number of courses as follows. You may calculate tuition and fees for Summer term here. Course: Synthetic Architectures Instructor: […]

Storytelling is a powerful method of communicating messages and engaging an audience. Whether you are building an expressive narrative world, documenting existing work, or pitching a new project, a carefully crafted story is a powerful way to connect with others.  How do new technologies change the way we tell stories?

This course covers the next several years of evolution in technology, culture, and other trends. It uses scenario planning, a technique for considering complex interrelationships that can’t be predicted, distinguishing predetermined elements from critical uncertainties, and exploring the underlying patterns that influence events.