FINE-257 Histories of the Digital Now (Video, New Media & the Digital Turn) explores the evolution of digital practices and their profound influence on visual culture and contemporary art from the 1960s to the present. Tracing the histories, aesthetics and politics of digital art, students will critically examine the emergence of digital technologies, and their roles in transforming artistic practices, modes of production, and integration across media disciplines.

Through both chronological and thematic approaches, students will engage with theoretical readings, analyze historical and contemporary case studies in art and digital spaces in everyday life, and create studio-based projects that respond to or critique digital and mediated cultures. By the end of the course, students will have developed both a historical understanding and practical fluency in the ways digital art shapes, and is shaped by, cultural and technological transformations.