Course information

In this module students will consider a series of technologies and ask: how has this technology inflected how images are made and consumed, what subjects are represented, and even what constitutes an image at all? Individual sessions will address common themes of, among other things, production and reproduction, craft and skill, visual experience, and materiality. Over the course of the module, students will also be introduced to various scholarly and theoretical frameworks for addressing the relationship between technology and image-making. The history of art is increasingly inseparable from that of technology. Bringing these together directly, this module provides an innovative way for students to rethink some of the canonical moments in the history of art, as well as opening possible new paths for dissertation and future research.