Course Description

The Lights That See Us is a course created in response to our ever-changing relationship to new technology. We will explore historic, material, political, and artistic perspectives of technology systems beginning with some of the earliest forms of artificial lighting up to emerging Internet of Things devices. And now, in response to the covid-19 era of reliance on technology to gather, communicate, learn, and work virtually, the course will focus heavily on the complexity, advantages, and drawbacks of technological mediation, specifically in the home.