Catalog Description: From postcards and maps to mobile phones, this course considers the history and future of locative media, as technological, situated, and navigational ways of expressing and understanding space, location, and bodies. This is a theory and making course. It is designed to help students traverse the nuances between a) critically engaging with theoretical ideas and implementing the questions that they raise into their practice and b) critically engaging with the technological production of space and place, and implementing the questions that it raises into theory.
Units: 4
Formats:
Summer: 4.0 hours of seminar per week
Summer: 6.0 hours of seminar per week
Summer: 4.5 hours of seminar per week
Summer: 7.5 hours of seminar per week
Fall: 3.0 hours of seminar per week
Spring: 3.0 hours of seminar per week
Grading basis: letter
Final exam status: No final exam