VIS 159History of Art and Technology
Aims to provide historical context for computer arts by examining the interaction between the arts, media technologies, and sciences in different historical periods. Topics vary (e.g., Renaissance perspective, futurism and technology, and computer art of the 1950s and 1960s). Materials fees required.
Prerequisites
From the catalog: “upper-division standing.”
Where it sits in degree plans
Suggested plans most often put it in Year 2 · Spring (1 program).
Required in (1)
- Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts (VA29)
One of the options in (4)
- Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts
- Speculative Design (B.A.)
- Visual Arts (Art History/Criticism) (B.A.)
- Visual Arts (Media) (B.A.)