Technocultural Studies - Davis

Jon Bafus and Solomon Bothwell perform at a the TCS building on 2007-07-16 Sean Johannessen performs at a the TCS building on 2007-07-16

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

*TCS 002, TCS 004, and TCS 006 are no longer available! See TCS Lower-Division Requirement Replacements TCS 007(A-E): Technical Workshops

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