Digital utensils

Teacher: Amélie Dumont

This course aims to open the students' imagination to the creative potential of digital tools, whether they are already part of their practice or not. Underneath the interfaces and uses of these software programs lies information as well as cultural positioning. So what can the tools tell us beyond the function for which they were created? Students will learn to experiment with, combine, modify, and divert digital tools and thus build a toolbox that they can reuse according to their personal practice and interests. The objectives are the following:

-to confront a textual interface to manipulate information

-to understand the logic of software paradigms, beyond the instructions for use, to build a more intimate relationship with the tools

-opening up one's view of the tools that constitute one's practice, building up a collection of tools rather than locking oneself into a few restricted uses

-questioning the standards and vocabulary of the software

-find new ways of creating by trying new tools or by modifying or diverting the use of existing tools

-to be curious, to venture out of one's digital comfort zone, thus knowing how to tinker, make mistakes, go in unknown directions