Temporary Fictions: Art, Design and Technology is an interdisciplinary, critical making course which considers the contemporary visual world, increasingly mediated by screens, devices, images, displays. Centuries of mediation can be traced along the intersections of ADT from the paintbrush to 3 point perspective, the photograph to augmented reality--- how the real is represented/seen/unseen/authenticated/believed/valued or included, is not a natural or random fact, but rather an entry point to interpreting visual codes and meanings that shape social conditions and workings of power in everyday life: constructs of race, gender, sexuality, class, and ability. ADT as media fields not only reflect opinions and conventions of taste, but rather, encounters with media in these fields are considered among the forms through which human subjects are ‘made’, as citizens, consumers, and as enculturated social beings. The ‘fictive art’ premise grounds the theoretical inquiry and interdisciplinary studio practices, emerging media, installation and performance.