Want to be part of the 2012 Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival? Want to collaborate with internationally recognized new media practitioners? Seats still available for you in FLEFF LAB, a unique, highly interactive and interdisciplinary engagement.
No prior new media, computing, art, or critical studies experience necessary. Open to ALL students.
FLEFF LAB: The Microtopias Project
GCOM 12000 Spring 2012
CRN 43577
Tues 7-9:30 p.m.
3 Credits
This innovative and exciting course explores the concept of microtopias through a range of theories and practices of emerging technologies, user-generated content, sound, music and other structures. Students will engage in group projects that combine conceptual and material investigations of microtopias oriented to the possibilities of imagining other futures.
Claudia Pederson is interested in the histories conjoining art and activism. Before studying Art History, Claudia produced pirate radio and video works in collaboration with activists and women artists in the Netherlands and Germany. She is currently completing a PhD dissertation examining the relationships between play, art, and social engagement viaartistic interventions in electronic gaming. Her most recent collaboration with performance artist Arzu Ozkal involves a networking project with 15 Turkish women working in a variety of media around questions of transnationality.
Nicholas Knouf is a media artist and theorist who investigates the relationships between noise and culture. Currently a graduate fellow at the Cornell Society for the Humanities, his PhD dissertation delves into the complexities of noise in the sonic domain through an examination of early electronic music, sonification, robotics, and collective formation. His media artworks investigate new forms of being in the world through online and offline projects and have been shown and discussed internationally in Brazil, Spain, Greece, Norway, Switzerland, Germany, and Singapore.
https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20111204134038224