What are the details of our daily existence? What systems dominate our lives? What meanings can we make of our situation?

This social studies/humanities course will steal from various disciplines - including anthropology, critical theory, cultural studies, economics, futurology, history, philosophy, political science, psychology, and sociology - to help us make sense of our situation.

A major goal of the course will be to focus your attention on your own life. Together we will investigate major systems that create and rule our lives including capitalism, school, family, popular culture, and the US government. And we will figure out how to interpret our lives, and these systems, and the collision of our lives and these systems.

We will detour into the future and the past but our journey will be primarily contemporary.

Friday, January 29, 2010

HW 38 - Art Project Cool

Due Sunday, February 7, at 9pm -

Please post on your blog a video/image/textual version of an art project that integrates insight into cool. I encourage you to consider uploading a video you've made about cool at school. See here for inspiration.

Together with the digital representation of the art project please address, in a few paragraphs, the following questions.
1. What insights about cool does the art integrate? What do you hope people will realize or question from their encounter with your art?
2. Describe the process of making the project - how'd you do each step? If it was a group project, what did you contribute?
3. Does making art seem cool to you? Why or why not?

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