Sam Lavigne

“Detournement” is the practice of hijacking cultural or artistic materials and reusing them to produce new works that both counter and explicate the original intent or ideology of the source material. In this class students will learn how to scrape massive quantities of material from the internet using the Python programming language, and then deploy that material to make satirical, critical and political projects. The class will cover a variety of web scraping techniques, as well as command line programs and Python tools that will allow us to automatically manipulate text, images and video, with readings pertaining to the history of
artistic “hijackings” and satire.