From social media posts to text-to-image generators and NFTs, how we create, share, and exchange art has been meaningfully augmented in recent years. Moreover, their vectors of software, hardware, and cultural production continually intersect in new and unique ways. However, as we cede more and more control to the algorithms that lie at their core, it is becoming increasingly important to understand the role of digital mediums on a global stage. This course will critically examine networked and algorithmic mediums for artistic creation and deconstruct the ways in which these technologies are conditioned by social and economic dynamics, as well as how societies and individuals are transformed by new mediums and technological infrastructures. Burgeoning mediums, platforms, and technologies for artistic creation, such as the blockchain and generative-AI, afford a unique opportunity to see how traditional ideas need to be enhanced, amended, or rethought. Throughout the course we will learn how these technologies work and conduct close readings of seminal texts from the fields of media and new media studies, philosophy of art and technology, and art history and theory. Through these texts, we will analyze digital artworks that use various algorithmic means in meaningful and novel ways and contextualize them within a greater trajectory of intellectual and art history from the middle-ages to today. The course will culminate with a curation of a digital exhibition of student-produced essays and artworks. At the conclusion of this course, students will be familiar with critical terms, ideas, and theories from a variety of overlapping fields, and be able to critically analyze and discuss art produced on and with emergent algorithmic media.