Location |
Technocultural Studies Building (Old Art Annex) |
Web site |
http://technoculture.ucdavis.edu |
Established |
2003 |
***New Changes |
Technocultural Studies is now under review (in 2013) to merge with Film Studies to create a new major called Cinema and Technoculture. |
"The Program in Technocultural Studies (TCS), a new addition to the University of California at Davis, is based among the fine and performing arts, literature and cultural studies in the Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies, and is designed to be open to a diverse range of interests from across the campus."
"We concentrate on transdisciplinary approaches to artistic, cultural and scholarly production in contemporary media and digital arts, community media, and mutual concerns of the arts with the scientific and technological disciplines. In contrast to programs which see technology as the primary driving force, we place questions of poetics, aesthetics, history, politics and the environment at the core of our mission. In other words, we emphasize the "culture" in Technoculture." Source
Vector Webcast Radio was one of the area streaming audio sites. The TCS Dept. at UC Davis is responsible for inspiring this work and also for supplying the production workshops which made this possible. Basic HTML will be covered step-by-step in order to demonstrate to the curious novice how to accomplish basic website design using FTP protocol, CSS style sheets, flash animation installation and of course streaming audio.
It was a non-political, demonstrative stream hosted at the now-defunct carlissimoe.com. It was part of class TCS 2008.
Students have recently reinstated the Technocultural Studies Club to foster conversations and art beyond the classrooms.
Previously residing in the Art Building, in 2007, the department moved into the remodeled Art Annex building, now known as the Technocultural Studies Building.
Courses
Lower Division:
TCS 001: Introduction to Technocultural Studies |
TCS 002: Critiques of Media |
TCS 004: Parallels in Art and Science |
TCS 005: Media Archaeology |
TCS 006: Technoculture and the Popular Imagination |
Upper Division: TCS 100: Experimental Digital Cinema I TCS 101: Experimental Digital Cinema II TCS 103: Interactivity and Animation TCS 104: Documentary Production TCS 110: Object-oriented Programming for Artists TCS 111: Community Media Production TCS 112: New Radio Features and Documentary TCS 113: Community Networks TCS 120: History of Sound in the Arts TCS 121: Introduction to Sonic Arts TCS 122: Intermediate Sonic Arts TCS 123: Sight and Sound Track TCS 125: Advanced Sound: Performance and Improvisation TCS 130. Fundamentals of 3D Computer Graphics TCS 131. Character Animation TCS 150: Introduction to Theories of Technoculture TCS 151: Topics in Virtuality TCS 152: New Trends in Technocultural Arts TCS 153: Concepts of Innovative Soundtracks TCS 154: Outsider Machines TCS 155: Introduction to Documentary Studies TCS 158: Technology and the Modern American Body TCS 159: Media Subcultures TCS 170 (A-E): Technical Workshops TCS 190: Research Methods in Technocultural Studies TCS 191: Writing Across Media TCS 192: Internship TCS 198: Directed Group Study
Contact
Staff Advisor Ariel Collatz Academic Coordinator of Undergraduate Advising [email protected] 752-0616 M/TR, 9-11:30 Art 107
Peer Advisor Laura Harvey Office hours: M, W, 1-2 pm
Faculty Advisers Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli [email protected]
Michael Neff [email protected] http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~neff/
2007-10-25 04:46:09 Bob Ostertag is a whoopingly great professor. Woot woot http://bobostertag.com/music-recordings-w00t.htm —AyseG
2008-03-05 15:26:00 TCS is super sweet —Art-Advisor
technically speaking
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