Faculty: Geoff Cox
Description:

Radical changes in the nature of work have lead to the current tendency to regard curatorial, artistic and cultural work as indicative of the ways in which all work is increasingly (forced to be) creative, flexible and precarious - making artists exemplary contemporary workers. Through selected projects of contemporary artists and groups we will explore the increased sharing of skills and expertise as well as the rising importance of communicative interconnections in what the autonomists call the ’social factory’.

Goals:

• To introduce concepts and examples of contemporary interdisciplinary arts praxis.
• To develop strategies for research and future creative production that is informed by historical and theoretical references.

With the introduction of computer as a labor process the work has radically transform. What was driven by the labor workforce in terms of ability and exclusively communal labor is now more intensively automatized and machine related. Labor is no more conditioned by workload and force standards but how the machine should do the tasks. The machine as a generator of economy and subsequently as a producer of goods that increase and duplicate the Capital necessary to continue the process.