This introductory course on new media practices in video art, experimental film, and installation examines the political implications of artists whose practices exemplify alternatives to hegemonic, dominant, and colonial positions across race, class, and gender to envision potential liberatory futures. How do artists use technology to shift our understanding of Western notions of time, space, linearity, and futurity? In this course, we will analyze questions of access, surveillance, and control, and how artists disrupt such notions through the use of virtual/artificial reality, internet art, memes, experimental film, and video installation. Artists discussed will include Sondra Perry, Jacolby Satterwhite, Legacy Russell, Martine Syms, Ho Rui An, Hito Stereyl, Aldo Tambellini, Harun Farocki, Rachel Rose, Metahaven, Tiffany Sia, among others. In addition to screenings, guest visits, and field trips, students will produce their own writing and media to reflect on art's role in developing alternatives to the present. [Tracks C, M, S]