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Speculative Design - Week 1 - 4
Week 1September 30th
Discuss syllabus, class structure, community agreements, first assignment and Redshift and Portalmetal.Films
Janelle Monae, Many Moons, Primetime
Wanuri Kahiu, Pumzi
Excerpts from Alphaville, Jean-Luc Godard
Morrigan Philips, Octavia's Brood contributor, on Direct Action and Speculative Fiction
Optional event on campus to attend: Fall Convergence, Dr. cárdenas performing part of Redshift and Portalmetal, Friday, 2pm, on the UWB campus at the North Creek Events Center, http://www.uwb.edu/mfa/program-events/fall-convergenceWeek 2
October 5th - Intersectionality as Practice and Method
Octavia's Brood, p. 1-14
"The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master’s House", Audre Lorde
"Intersectionality," Brittney Cooper
"Retaining Benefits, Avoiding Responsibility," Paul Kivel
Optional readings: Why Intersectionality Can't Wait
Black Speculative Fiction is Protest Work
Online Responses for Week 2
Tutorial: Introduction to Photoshop
Speculative Design Slides, example ideas for first assignment
October 7th - Black and Trans Future Movements
'Things will never be the same': the oral history of a new civil rights movement
Black Lives Matter Has Become A Global Movement
Why Laverne Cox Declared a 'State of Emergency' in the Transgender Community
Optional reading: The Combahee River Collective Statement
Watch film on Reserve at the library, or online, and write a response to it in your online response for week 3: Born in Flames by Lizzie Borden, High Quality link at the library website, Low quality youtube versionWeek 3
October 12 - Queer and Trans/Feminism
Watch online trailers for Wildness: https://vimeo.com/20147172
Homotopia
Criminal Queers
“Queer Love Economies: Making Trans/Feminist Film in Precarious Times”, Eric A. Stanley, Wu Tsang, and Chris Vargas
"An Artist's Pioneering Masks Shield Us From Future Surveillance", on the work of Zach BlasOnline Responses for Week 3
Tutorial: Photoshop ContinuedOctober 14 - Questioning Speculative Design
Speculative Everything, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, p. 1-10, 33-47"Futuristic Gizmos, Conservative Ideals: On Anachronistic Design", by Luiza Prado de o. Martins and Pedro j. s. Vieira de Oliveira
Design in a Time of Crisis
Show in class: Rafael Lozano-Hammer, Level of Confidence
Film: Black Mirror
Week 4October 19 - Transnational Media
Borderlands / La Frontera, Gloria AnzaldúaChapter 1 "The Homeland, Aztlan / El Otro Mexico"
Show in class: Tantalum Memorial, Chains by Usher and Nas
Optional reading: Honoring Grace Lee Boggs, Chinese Immigrant and one of the greatest revolutionary thinkers in the US
18 Million Rising: Activating Asian America
18 Million Rising: Activating Asian America on Twitter
12 Horrifying Photos of the Tech Industry Apple Never Wants You to See
Online Responses for Week 4
Film: Sleep Dealer, Alex Rivera
October 21
Speculative Design Projects Due
Speculative Art - Week 5 - 7
Speculative Art: Performance and New Media, Slides
Week 5October 26 - High-Tech Orientalism
"Race and/as Technology or How to do Things With Race", Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, from the book Race After the Internet edited by Lisa Nakamura and Peter Chow-White, available to read online at the library websiteWorks shown in class: VNS Matrix, Lygia Clark, Pocha Nostra, Electronic Disturbance Theater / TBT, Adrian Piper, Stelarc, Orlan, Shu Lea Cheang
Tutorial: Introduction to Final Cut Pro
October 28 - Speculative Fiction as Activism as Speculative Fiction
Octavia's Brood, p. 15 - 57, 79-122
Play Redshift and Portalmetal
Tutorial: Continuing Final Cut ProWeek 6
November 2 - Performing Cyborg Feminism
"A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century", Donna Haraway"Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin", Donna Haraway
Online Responses for Week 6
November 4 - Speculative ArtWorks shown in class: Zach Blas, Adam Harvey, Guiseppe Campuzano, Ashley-Ferro Murray, Shu Lea Cheang, Critical Art Ensemble, Beatriz da Costa
Discuss projects, work on projectsWeek 7
November 9 - Speculative Art Projects due
November 11 - No class, veterans day
Science Fiction in Games - Week 8-11
Week 8November 16 - Octavia's Brood, p. 123-135, 249-283
Attend Octavia's Brood event at Seattle Central Library, any time during the day, including during class time, https://www.facebook.com/events/457218694461853/
Monday, November 16at 11:00am - 7:00pm
Broadway Performance Hall and BE1110 and Seattle Central Art Gallery
November 18 - Cyborg Goddesses
“I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess”, Jasbir K. Puar
With $1 million at stake, U. of Missouri’s president now taking protests seriously
As death threats spread fear at Mizzou, professor asks students to defeat ‘bullies’ and attend class
Online Responses for Week 8
Week 9November 23 - Transgender Games
Games to play: Mainichi, Dys4ia (info about the game here, download for mac, download for win)
Online Responses for Week 9
Tutorial: Introduction to Scalar
November 25 - Play Lim, Any other game from Merritt Kopas, and Howling Dogs
A Wish for Something Better by Anna Anthropy
Empathy Machine by Merritt Kopas
Brace by Merritt Kopas
A Synchronous Ritual by Merritt Kopas
Film: Hunger Games: Catching FireWeek 10
November 30 - Shifting Futures "Shifting Futures," micha cárdenas
Games: Elizabeth Lapenseé, Survivance, Blast Theory, Ulrike and Eamon Compliant
Online Responses for Week 10
Tutorial: Scalar continued.
December 2 - Games: Molleindustria, Phone Story, Depression Quest
Tutorial: Introduction to Javascript
Work on Final Projects
Week 11December 7
Work on Final Projects
December 9 - Present final projects
Final Projects Due Monday, December 14, 2015,7:45 pm
Assignments
Course Description
