Machines can make our daily lives easier and represent bright futures, but they also enable modern warfare and accelerate climate change. This course explores how modern and contemporary artists have depicted, built, and relied on machines for their practice while interrogating their complicated role in modern society. From the telegraph to the television, from factories to robotics, machines have fascinated artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Jean Tinguely, Margaret Bourke-White, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Nam June Paik, Seiko Mikami, Toyin Ojih Odutola, and Anicka Yi, among others. We will discuss their art as a springboard for larger discussions surrounding human progress, bodily autonomy, environmental destruction, and the intersection of race and technology.HAAVC 3000 seminars continue developing students' visual analysis and research skills while providing students the opportunity for in-depth study of the visual/structural artifacts associated with a particular topic, region, or movement. Students will also engage with the relevant primary/secondary literature for the specific topic/theme. Courses will pay particular attention to the larger cultural, historical, and theoretical/ideological contexts in which the visual artifacts and structures under consideration were created. This course cannot fulfill the HAAVC 2000 requirement.

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