Sara Raza

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. The course will include a combination of seminars, guest lectures/ presentations, case studies and site visits. The course follows a ‘think tank’ model where critical reflection, readings, curatorial and practical assignments will culminate in a collective class project, which may take the form of a group exhibition, public program/ publication. Fostering an environment for the cross circulation of critical ideas, the course provides a compact and timely overview of a fast shifting and changing local, global and virtual ecosystem via the art and technology of our time.