DNR Fall Courses
Welcome to the Do Not Research Research Unit, our new education program. This fall, we are offering a small selection of online courses. After four years of maintaining reading groups, critique groups, film screenings, and other community programming, we are taking on the task of educating the next cohort of artists and creatives.
Fall Bootcamp (Sundays)
INSTRUCTOR: Theresa Tomi Faison
DATES: Sunday, 10/5, 10/12, 10/19, 10/26
TIME: 1:00 - 3:30pm EST
Four week intensive course delving into the core ideas and questions explored in the foundational stages of DNR. We will examine artworks, texts, and online media covering topics: internet-informed identity, political futures, & post-internet art. Facilitated by artist Theresa Tomi Faison via Zoom.
Enrollment is open now. Space is limited.
Technology Criticism
INSTRUCTOR: Mike Pepi
DATES: Monday, 10/6, 10/20, 11/3, 11/17
TIME: 6:30 - 8:30pm EST
A four week intensive to familiarize participants with core texts and issues in the debate over the role of technology in society, its politics, and its future. We will focus on the contemporary positions on the criticism of technology, spending extra time to unpack the last 10 years of debates over Silicon Valley platforms and their implications.
Fall Bootcamp (Tuesdays)
INSTRUCTOR: Theresa Tomi Faison
DATES: Tuesday, 10/7, 10/14, 10/21, 10/28
TIME: 6:30 - 9:00pm EST
Four week intensive course delving into the core ideas and questions explored in the foundational stages of DNR. We will examine artworks, texts, and online media covering topics: internet-informed identity, political futures, & post-internet art. Facilitated by artist Theresa Tomi Faison via Zoom.
Enrollment is open now. Space is limited.
“The materials covered in the course clearly explicate our current political and institutional stagnation and decay, and through discussion provide possible ways forward. In addition to politically grounded texts, Tomi's careful curation of artworks shown in class highlights artists reacting to, and not escaping from, our current cultural realities. This class is highly relevant to anyone interested in ultra-contemporary art, our psycho-political moment, and how those intersect. It was a privilege being a member of the first cohort; I cannot recommend it enough.”
— Nate De La Cruz, former student from DNR Summer 25: Bootcamp
Find all DNR Fall courses here.
This summer, we launched an experimental education program. Instructor Theresa Tomi Faison facilitated a bootcamp course whose waitlist and level of interest exceeded our wildest expectations. This selection of fall courses is our first step towards expanding that program.
New aesthetic languages were formed and refined online yet relatively ignored by the legacy art world. Esoteric right wing body builders made unlikely bedfellows with cat-ear-wearing trans women. We formed the reading group to dig into these questions and published our outputs to the blog.
Maybe interesting similar class: https://www.societyand.technology/
waitlist but will eagerly await.. winter sessions? 👾