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Course Description

Summary

“…every form of making a world through our encounters with things is fully multi-modal. It is principally a mixture of modes of know-how (technê) and modes of know-what (epistêmê) with more complex combinations of the two wherein the hard distinction between technique and episteme collapses.” —Reza Negarestani, What does it take to make anything at all? This is a projects class for advanced students who are developing a body of work that requires regular or frequent use of both digital manipulation and physical making. Moving between digital process (image manipulation, spatial modeling, parametric design) and physical process involves various adaptions, transformations, and approximations. Regardless of the translation, each movement is a moment for invention, and an opportunity to make meaning. This is not a course for work that is purely digital—rather, a workshop for people interested in developing the relationship between the digital tools that they use, and methods and processes of working by hand (or physically) of their own creation. Students will be required to participate in regular critique, demonstrate engagement with a sustained (material and conceptual) research question, and develop their ideas through readings and discussion. This course may be taken alongside another advanced VA workshop or projects course (as long as students do not exceed the two, 4-credit VA studio/term limit).