Instruments of the Black Gooey Universe is inspired by extracurricular connections between the long-running SFPC class “Dark Matters,” a critical theory class taught by American Artist & Zainab Aliyu that investigates the surveillance of Blackness and the construction of whiteness as “neutral” within high technology; and the course, “Poetic Hardware,” a hands-on electronics class taught by the collective CW&T (Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy). In this unique session, students will study and discuss critical theory with American & Zainab, as well as participate in physical computing demonstrations led by CW&T. Students will have the opportunity to bridge the concepts of both classes to imagine what possible instruments can exist within the “Black Gooey Universe”, a speculative space posited by American Artist where Blackness forms the foundation of virtual creation.
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