This subject explores the interface of technology and culture. The ways that scientific and technological discourses construct the cultural imagery, individual subjectivity and differences (of race, gender, sex, and ethnicity), and vice versa, are central concerns. The focus is on the culture/technology nexus at the level of perception, aesthetics and emotions. The influence of media/communication technologies on the arts and on intellectual disciplines are also foregrounded. The subject works through case studies (which may include the Internet, telematics, interactivity, robotics and robotic art, military, medical and other media technologies/cultures) and explores historical perspectives as well as philosophical concepts and cultural theories. In some semesters, this subject is taught in conjunction with Electronic Arts at Cornell University in New York and the emphasis is on electronic arts at the interface of technology and culture.

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