Critical Making: A Course Exhibition from UC Berkeley

Critical Making: A Course Exhibition from UC Berkeley

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Critical Making, Spring 2017

Critical Making draws upon the interdisciplinary skill sets, experiences, and backgrounds of its student participants to push the boundaries of technologically-enabled art practice. Throughout the course, and using a variety of digital and physical tools provided by Berkeley's Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, members imagine and build objects that provoke, inspire, destabilize, assist, and question dominant social norms. Come see these creations designed specifically to start conversations, build competencies, and otherwise change hearts and minds, and be amazed!

UC Berkeley's "Critical Making" explores practices of "making" through foundational literature and hands-on studio culture. Born in the CITRIS Invention Lab, and operating out of the Jacobs Institute, CM brings you final projects from Spring 2017.

What inspired you to make this project?:
We founded the Invention Lab (and its accompanying course "Critical Making") to help expand UC Berkeley's ability to support innovative multimedia creativity, and to catalyze a wave of disruptive design practices already emanating out of the East Bay. We hold that our students are among the brightest and most imaginative thinkers in the world, and present their work from our Spring 2017 seminar as evidence of their ingenuity.

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