Media Design Practices

a design MFA at ArtCenter in emerging technologies, critical frameworks, and experimental studio practices

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a design MFA at ArtCenter in emerging technologies, critical frameworks, and experimental studio practices

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THESIS LIVE 2021 Hosted by Anne Burdick, Elise Co, Tim Durfee Fri, April 16, 2021, 3pm Livestream

In this 3-week “express” project inside of Creative Technology 3, we will consider the materialities, locatedness, processes, tools, politics of making, and making’s relationship to…

Futures of Work

A design studio about work is like one about history, or science – a subject too vast and complex to present the constructive constraints we…

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Agency of Emotion Dave Chan

Engaging with provisional realities cedes the human voice in favor of predictive algorithms. Will this improve our relationships, or produce an unacceptable strain on our…

Unstable Label: Contested Spaces in Machine Learning Adit Dhanushkodi

Unstable Label is a speculative data labeling application to build a civic machine learning algorithm, facilitating a collective process of meaning making rather than creating…

The Seduction of Intimate Machines Maya Friedman

This Essay analyzes why the intimate relationship we have with our devices has reprogrammed arousal. “The intimacy designed by way of frictionless design has led…