— Note: Classes from this point forward will begin at 10:00am
— W1 g-doc
— 10:00–10:15 — Introductions
— 10:15–10:45 — Code of Conduct + Group Agreement
— 10:45–11:30 — Review syllabus
— 11:30–11:45 — Review reading responses
— 11:45–12:30 — Review print.are.na
— 12:30–12:50 — for next week...

For next week
— Read the assigned text
— Write your responses in next week's g-doc

— W2 g-doc
— Read: On the infinite flow of creative energy
— Note takers: Sarah & Andrew
— Watch in class: Deep Down Tidal by Tabita Rezaire

Neema Githere is a curator and guerrilla educator/performance artist based in the #digitaldiaspora. She is part of the collective Data Healing which seeks to illuminate + activate the intersections between nature, spirituality, and technology. Her new site Presentism2020 is a manifestation of her ongoing theories, projects and relationships: afropresentism, #healingimagery, radical love, #divestfrominstagram, and data healing.

"It may feel as if the internet is up in the clouds, but in actual fact it's at the bottom of the ocean, in the form of 880,000 kilometers of fiber-optic cables. These cables make up the essential infrastructure for sending all our emails, websites, photos, films and of course emoticons. Beneath the waves, our wireless life is very bound up with physical wires—it's the virtual made physical. Among the submerged cities, drowned sailors and hidden histories, the ocean is home to a complex communications network. Here, the technologies controlled by the West expand along the old colonial routes, so in a way the cables are the hardware of a new, electronic imperialism. Deep Down Tidal is a video essay in typical net.art style, weaving together cosmological, spiritual, political and technological narratives about water and its role in communication, then and now. It's about how this cable network can facilitate the retention and expansion of power. It also reminds us that water doesn’t forget."

This session will be a reflection-based workshop around the concept of data healing. Terms of interest: data trauma, data healing, cyber doula. As students read the assigned text, I encourage them to reflect upon & attempt to self-define the above terms, which will frame our conversation in class.

For next week
— Sarah & Andrew, please add your notes, references and summary to Neema's Are.na channel and the W2 doc
— everyone should add links, excerpts, notes, and references into their personal Are.na channel for this class
— Read the assigned text
— Write your responses in next week's g-doc

— W3 g-doc
— Note takers: Sherry & Tyler
— Read: Publishing Manifestos, Intro
— Skim: Publishing Manifestos, Excerpts
— optional skim: Publishing Manifestos, Extra

New York-based graphic designer Kristian Henson is part of the publishing imprint, Hardworking Goodlooking (with Dante Carlos, Czar Kristoff, Clara Balaguer). They recently spoke to the Walker about how cultural work can be used as a critical tool through various platforms, especially publishing, which they explore through a transnational collaboration: Henson works in New York; Carlos, in Portland; Kristoff and Balaguer in the Philippines.

For next week
— Sherry & Tyler, please add your notes, references and summary to Kristian's Are.na channel and the W3 doc
— Complete the assignment in the W4 doc by Saturday, Feb 8th

— W4 g-doc
— If you haven't been added to class Are.na group, please add your are.na to the top of the W4 doc
— Note takers: Jennifer & Jillian
— Assignment: Please follow the instructions in W4 doc. Complete by Saturday, February 8th

New York-based designer Yotam Hadar has over a decade of experience collaborating with studios, agencies, and clients in leading concept-driven projects in typography, print, branding, environ­mental and interactive media for clients in culture, retail, media, education, government, and tech. Past experience includes Nike NY, 2x4, Pentagram, Project Projects, Sagmeister & Walsh, Hugo & Marie, Mother Design, among others. A design educator since 2009, Yotam taught design and typography at Yale School of Art, Pratt Institute, Parsons School of Design and Rutgers University.

For next week
— Jennifer & Jillian, please add your notes, references and summary to Yotam's Are.na channel
— Read the assigned text
— Write your responses in next week's g-doc

— W5 g-doc
— Note takers: Anna & Sophie
— Read: Currently in Process

An independent graphic designer in New York City, David Reinfurt introduced the study of graphic design at Princeton University in 2010. In late September 2019, Inventory Press and D.A.P. published a book based on his teaching, A New Program for Graphic Design, a do-it-yourself textbook that synthesizes the pragmatic with the experimental and builds on mid- to late-twentieth-century pedagogical models to convey advanced principles of contemporary design, rooted in three courses (Typography, Gestalt, and Interface).

As a co-founder of O-R-G, Dexter Sinister, and The Serving Library, Reinfurt has developed several models that have reimagined graphic design and publishing in the twenty-first century. He was 2016–17 Mark Hampton Rome Prize Fellow in Design at the American Academy in Rome and is the co-author of Muriel Cooper (MIT Press, 2017).

For next week
— Anna & Sophie, please add your notes, references and summary to David's Are.na channel
— Read the assigned text
— Write your responses in next week's g-doc

— W6 g-doc
— Note takers: Eric G & Katie
— Read: As If
— Read: Phantom Images

Federico Pérez Villoro is an artist and researcher living between Mexico City and New York. Through texts, performances, and digital artifacts, Federico explores the materiality of language and the impact of technology in socio-political behavior. His work has been exhibited internationally and published by Printed Matter, C Magazine, Gato Negro Ediciones, and the Walker Art Center’s The Gradient. Federico has taught undergraduate and graduate courses at the Rhode Island School of Design and California College of the Arts. He has lectured and acted as a visiting critic at schools such as CalArts, The New School, UNAM, and Hongik University. In addition, Federico has advanced a number of experimental educational initiatives. He recently founded Materia Abierta, a summer program on theory, art, and technology in Mexico City. Previously, Federico developed Second Thoughts, a series of lectures, workshops, and discussions on contemporary design at Fundación Alumnos and Museo Tamayo. Alongside Roxana Fabius, he is the co-founder of (human) learning, an itinerant study group that has been hosted in spaces such as P! in New York City, Art Center/South Florida in Miami, Florida, and ZONAMACO in Mexico City. In 2013, he received an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.

For next week
— Eric & Katie, please add your notes, references and summary to Federico's Are.na channel
— Read the assigned text
— Write your responses in next week's g-doc

— W7 g-doc
— Note takers: Rushika & Elyssa
— Read: Manifeste du Surréalisme
— Read: Distinction reading
— review Are.na channels and print.are.na for reader
— All note takers, review your notes from past weeks, and make sure there are 10 text blocks, 5 image blocks, and 5 reference links in the are.na channel of your respective designer.

Gregor Huber is a co-founder of Huber/Sterzinger, a collaborative design practice based in Zurich, Switzerland. They've worked with Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Yto Barrada, Hauser & Wirth, among others. Their teaching and workshops include the ECAL in Lausanne, HGB in Leipzig, HFG in Karlsruhe, and more.

For next week
— Rushika & Elyssa, please add your notes, references and summary to Gregor's Are.na channel
— Read the assigned text
— Write your responses in next week's g-doc

— W8 g-doc
— Read: 2 excerpts from Adam Greenfield's Radical Technologies
— Optional readings/videos include: Dunne + Raby's Speculative Everything – Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming, Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism, and Adam Curtis's early documentaries pre-Hypernormalization

For next week
— Spring Break!

For next, next week
— Read the assigned text
— Write your responses in next week's g-doc
— Add blocks from each designer to your readers. Begin to sequence them.

no class this week

Please start building your readers.

— W10 g-doc
— Zoom meeting ID: 9138701027
— Review Zoom
— Please note: lectures (including your comments in the chat field) will be recorded
— Review COVID Resources
— Note takers for Jane: Sara & Krystal
— Note takers for Shannon: Matt & Caitlin & Eric M

Optional reading responses
— Read: Universal Design and the Problem of “Post-Disability” Ideology
— section "Critical Disability Theory" (p. 3–4)
— section "Universal Design in the Post-ADA Era" (p. 11–16)

Jane Wong is a technologist and creative director at Frog Design, Inc. Prior to Interaction Design, she spent many years working in architecture, working in large-scale urban and commercial projects, high-rise residential, restaurant, retail and conceptual projects. She currently teaches at SVA and used to be a visiting lecturer at Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID).

Shannon Finnegan is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist making work about accessibility and disability culture. They have done projects with Banff Centre, Friends of the High Line, Tallinn Art Hall, Nook Gallery, and the Wassaic Project. They have spoken at the Brooklyn Museum, School for Poetic Computation, The 8th Floor, and The Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library. In 2018, Finnegan received a Wynn Newhouse Award and participated in Art Beyond Sight’s Art + Disability Residency. In 2019, they were an artist-in-residence at Eyebeam. Finnegan's work has been written about in C Magazine, Art in America, Hyperallergic, and the New York Times.

For next week
— Sara & Krystal, please add your notes, references and summary to Jane's Are.na channel
— Matt & Caitlin & Eric M, please add your notes, references and summary to Shannon's Are.na channel
— Read the assigned text
— Write your responses in next week's g-doc

— W11 g-doc
— Zoom us04web.zoom.us/j/564164919
— Note takers: Fred & Vicky & Gabriella
— Read: Peter Osborne's Fiction of the Contemporary
— Read: Rosalind Krauss's Cultural Logic of the Late Capitalist Museum

Ayham Ghraowi is a graphic designer and editor based in New York. From 2017 to 2019, he was lecturer in Critical Practice at Yale School of Art, where he also served as the Assistant Dean for Research and Public Projects. In 2018, he initiated the Yale School of Art Press. In summer of 2019, alongside Byron Kim and Lisa Sigal in their inaugural year as co-directors, he joined as faculty at Yale Norfolk Summer School where he continues to develop curriculum and teach. In addition to teaching, he directs an independent studio of collaborators that design and produce publications, digital applications, exhibitions and films. He was recently producer and the assistant director of Drill, a film by Hito Steyerl that premiered at Park Avenue Armory in Summer 2019. He is a contributing editor at e-flux journal.

For next week
— Fred & Vicky & Gabriella, please add your notes to this week's g-doc you do not need to include it on Are.na
— Read the assigned text
— Write your responses in next week's g-doc

— W12 g-doc
— Zoom us04web.zoom.us/j/101035325?pwd=MjZiVW1vN0JObVhxNFZCL0twdEF3QT09, please check your email for the password
— Note takers: Kyndall & Jessica
— Read: Anna Weiner's Uncanny Valley
— Read: Jenny Odell's How to do Nothing
— Read: Jia Tolentino's Trick Mirror

Tracy Ma is currently the Visual Editor at The New York Times Styles desk. Formerly she was the Deputy Creative Director at Bloomberg Businessweek and she was a lecturer at Parsons.

For next week
— Kyndall & Jessica, please add your notes, references and summary to Tracy's Are.na channel
— Read the assigned text
— Write your responses in next week's g-doc

— W13 g-doc
— Zoom us04web.zoom.us/j/101035325?pwd=MjZiVW1vN0JObVhxNFZCL0twdEF3QT09, please check your email for the password
— Note takers: James & Zhongxuan
— Read: Timothy Morton's Being Seen

Yasaman Sheri is a designer and creative director who works in the field of sensing and perception. She has led design interactions at Microsoft Hololens Operating System team and collaborated with Toyota, Mozilla XR Studio, Google (X), Sissel Tolaas and Yeast Lab, Ginkgo Bioworks and Space10. Yasaman is also an educator, teaching Sensory Design at Copenhagen Institute for Interaction Design, among others. She is frequent visiting lecturer and faculty at Art Center College of Design, Columbia GSAPP and Stanford.

For next week
— James & Zhongxuan, please add your notes, references and summary to Yasaman's Are.na channel
— Read the assigned text
— Write your responses in next week's g-doc

— W14 doc
— Zoom us04web.zoom.us/j/101035325?pwd=MjZiVW1vN0JObVhxNFZCL0twdEF3QT09, please check your email for the password
— Note takers: Dan & Sheila
— Read: Danielle Aubert, The Detroit Printing Co-op excerpt
— Read: Dena Yago, Empire Poetry
— Read: Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, A Reexamination of Some Aspects of the Design Arts from the Perspective of a Woman Designer
— Check out: Michelle Millar Fisher, Arts and All Museums Salary Transparency 2019 Spreadsheet

Laura Coombs is a graphic designer in New York. She is currently a Visiting Professor at Pratt Institute and the Senior Designer at the New Museum of Contemporary Art. She has taught, lectured, or served as a critic at design schools including the Yale School of Art, Princeton, Columbia GSAPP, Cooper Union, Parsons, Pratt, MICA, and Werkplaats Typografie. She graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Architecture degree and Yale School of Art with an MFA in Graphic Design.

For next week
— Dan & Sheila, please add your notes, references and summary to Laura's Are.na channel
— Everyone, please create your readers according to these instructions
— Everyone, please put your PDF into this Arena channel before Wednesday, 4/29
— Note takers for each designer will give a summary and favorite moments from each of the previous lectures
— 12 students will be randomly selected to present their PDF reader

— Zoom us04web.zoom.us/j/101035325?pwd=MjZiVW1vN0JObVhxNFZCL0twdEF3QT09, please check your email for the password
— 10:00–10:15 — Course evaluations
— 10:15–11:00 — Note takers for each designer will give a summary and favorite moments from each of the previous lectures
— 11:00–12:00 — 10 students will be randomly selected to present their PDF reader
— Have a great summer!