AI Grad Seminar 2021 Schedule
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Tuesday 08.24Week 1: Introduction, Context, Plan
Content: - Introductions
- Syllabus Review
- Semester plan discussion
- SCREEN: Love and Power from All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace, by Adam Curtis
- SCREEN: The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts from All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace, by Adam Curtis
- Prepare to present your work.
- Sign up for critique on the schedule as discussed in class.
- WATCH: The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey from All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace, by Adam Curtis
Tuesday 08.31Week 2: Chaos
Content: Assignment: - Make work.
- Read assignment below, take notes, post reflections to Canvas.
Tuesday 09.07Week 3: New Travelers
Content: - Discuss Reading(s)
- CRIT: Meghan Kozal
- Make work.
- Read assignment below, take notes, post reflections to Canvas.
Tuesday 09.14Week 4: Paradise
Content: - Discuss reading(s). Discussion leader: Meghan
- CRIT: Mark-C Hilbert
- SCREEN: Cybertopia - Dreams of Silicon Valley - Documentary - 2015. February 4, 2015.
- Make work.
- Read assignment below, take notes, post reflections to Canvas.
Tuesday 09.21Week 5: Earth
Content: Assignment: - Make work.
- Read assignment below, take notes, post reflections to Canvas.
Tuesday 09.28Week 6: Labor
Content: Assignment: - Make work.
- Read assignment below, take notes, post reflections to Canvas.
Tuesday 10.05Week 7: Data
Content: - Discuss reading(s).
- CRIT: Meghan Kozal
- REVIEW: Zach Blas
- Make work.
- Read assignment below, take notes, post reflections to Canvas.
Tuesday 10.12Week 8: Classification
Content: Assignment: - ATTEND: Visiting Artist talk with Zach Blas, Tuesday 6:15 PM (link provided)
- Make work.
- Continuing our discussion from last week regarding the US political spectrum as it relates to AI, READ: Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism? by, Jodi Dean
- Read assignment below, take notes, post reflections to Canvas.
Tuesday 10.19Week 9: Affect
Content: - Discuss reading(s).
- CRIT: Mina Park
- Make work.
- Read assignment below, take notes, post reflections to Canvas.
Tuesday 10.26Week 10: State
Content: - Discuss Reading(s).
- CRIT: Michael Hofmann
- Make work.
- Read assignment below, take notes, post reflections to Canvas.
Tuesday 11.02Week 11: Power
Content: Assignment: - Make work.
- Read assignment below, take notes, post reflections to Canvas.
Tuesday 11.09Week 12: AI-Capital
Content: Assignment: - ATTEND: Michael Mandiberg Visiting Artist Talk, 6:15 PM Tuesday (link provided).
- Make work.
- Read assignment below, take notes, post reflections to Canvas.
Tuesday 11.16Week 13: Means of Cognition
Content: - Discuss Reading(s).
- CRIT: Meghan Kozal
- Make work.
- Read assignment below, take notes, post reflections to Canvas.
Tuesday 11.23Week 14: The Social Factory
Content: - Discuss Reading(s).
- CRIT: Mark-C Hilbert
- Make work.
- Read assignment below, take notes, post reflections to Canvas.
Tuesday 11.30Week 15: Perfect Machines
Content: - Discuss Reading(s).
- CRIT: Maryam Parsa
- Make work.
- Read assignment below, take notes, post reflections to Canvas.
Tuesday 12.07
Week 16: Communist AI
Content: Assignment: Readings: None
Tuesday 12.14Exam Week: Final 11:00AM - 1:00PM
End of semester wrap up.
