SINY 77: Technology, Art and Innovation In New York

New York City has long been a center for experimentation at the intersection of technology and the arts. We will explore the evolving relationship between media technologies and contemporary art, examining how emerging tools—from photography and early video to smartphones and AI —have shaped the arts and how the arts have shaped technology in turn. Readings will include writings by artists, engineers, curators and designers. Students will visit museums, galleries, and archives, analyze art works and critical texts. Guest speakers, including New York-based artists and curators, will provide firsthand perspectives on the intersections of art and technology in contemporary practice.

This course will fulfill WAYS requirements, to be announced. 

Meet the Instructor(s)

Fred Turner

Fred Turner is Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University, where he studies the impact of new media technologies on American culture since World War II. He is the author of five books, including most recently, with Mary Beth Meehan, Seeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a LeBoff Distinguished Visiting Scholar at New York University, a Beaverbrook Visiting Scholar at McGill University, and twice a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. Before becoming a professor, he worked as a journalist for ten years. He continues to write regularly for newspapers and magazines in America and Europe.