HSOC-364: Data Justice

Data are a tool of worldmaking, reflecting and reinforcing past and present structures of power. Data also script the future. Building from that premise, this class will explore how critical approaches to data can encode alternate collective futures. With a particular focus on the role of data in art and design, we will look pair key texts on data feminism and critical data studies with works by Algorithmic Justice League, Morehshin Allahyari, Stephanie Dinkins, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Los Angeles Artist Census, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Mimi ?n??ha, Caroline Sinders, Amelia Winger-Bearskin, and others. Students will codetermine the course's assessment rubrics, and will participate in the design of the class as co-creators of curriculum through student-generated modules.